Shambley and Ori declared winners in close judicial races

The Chicago Board of Elections today announced the final results of balloting in the March 17 primary.

As FWIW readers will recall all too well, results in two City-only subcircuit races were too close to call on Election Night; the results depended on late-arriving Vote By Mail ballots and the adjudication of provisional ballots.

In the race for the Walker vacancy in the 1st Subcircuit, Ashley Greer Shambley (pictured above) is the declared winner, with 16,332 votes, besting her nearest challenger, Tiffany N. Brooks, by ony 70 votes.

Meanwhile, in the race for the Gamrath vacancy in the 8th Subcircuit, Kathleen Cunniff Ori (pictured at left) has been declared the winner over her nearest challenger, Elizabeth Christina Dibler, by 208 votes, 14,468 to 14,260.

For those of you keeping score at home, only a single vote was added to Brooks' totals since we last looked at that race. Shambley picked up no additional votes since that last look-in. (However, if you follow the links from that linked March 31 post, you will see that, quite a few votes were added for both candidates from and after Election Night; indeed, Shambley caught up to Brooks, and passed her, as the VBM ballots were counted.)

The 208 margin in Ori's favor also stayed the same since our March 31 article, with both Ori and Dibler picking up but a single vote in the meantime. In this race, however, the lead never changed hands, and the margin in Ori's favor moved only from 171 votes (on Election Night) to the 208-vote margin when the counting stopped.