Fifteen months after losing her race to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, Camas City Councilor Leslie Lewallen is facing another political upset.

Preliminary results for Tuesday’s general election show Lewallen is losing her bid for a second council term by nearly 10 percentage points.

As of Wednesday morning, Lewallen had 2,557 votes (45.02 percent) and her challenger, Camas Planning Commissioner Mahsa Eshghi, had 3,104 votes (54.65 percent).

Retired attorney, fifth-generation Washingtonian and Camasonian since 2018, Lewallen was elected in November 2021 to the Camas council’s nonpartisan Ward 3, Position 2 seat. She ran as a Republican in the 2024 primary race to unseat U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez but lost to Perez , a Democrat, and another Republican chal

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