Spokane’s progressives are within striking distance of a clean sweep of the municipal election for the first time since 2017 as conservative Councilman Jonathan Bingle’s narrow lead over reproductive rights advocate Sarah Dixit continues to evaporate.

The incumbent started with a 202 vote lead on election night, which shrank slightly to 184 with Wednesday’s tally and to just a 68-vote gap on Thursday.

“I’m still feeling good. It’s definitely much closer than I would like, but we’re still up and there’s a lot of ballots left to be counted,” Bingle said in a brief interview. “We’re going to do everything we can, everything in our power to make sure we come out on top, but still lots of ballots to be counted.”

With at least 2,860 votes left to count (and probably a handful more than that a

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