Incumbents on track to keep their seats on Lincoln City Council

LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) — Three Democratic incumbents on the officially nonpartisan Lincoln City Council kept their challengers at bay Tuesday.

When the night’s last batch of election results was released at 10 p.m., they held a strong advantage.

Sandra Washington led the pack with about 22,700 votes, and Tom Beckius was close behind with about 22,400.

Channel 8 is projecting that both will keep their seats.

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Bennie Shobe was a little further behind, ending the night with about 21,100 votes.

Stan Parker had the best showing of the Republicans, with about 18,300 votes.

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There are about 7,700 early ballots and 220 provisional ballots left to count, according to the Lancaster County Election Commission.

Shobe’s 2,812-vote lead over Parker is not insurmountable.

But the remaining ballots are likely to favor Shobe.

He had 10,800 votes in the early ballots counted so far, compared with 6,608 for Parker.

Former Councilman Jerry Shoecraft finished with 1bout 17,900 votes, and Maher Aurang Zeb came in last with about 7,000.

The rest of the early ballots will be counted on Friday. The provisional ballots will be tallied on May 14.