In the Oregon state elections, Republican George L. Woods defeated Democrat James Kelly in a tight race decided by 327 votes in a total 20,239 ballots cast. Oregon's single at-large seat in the United States Congress was also decided at election with a small majority going to the Republican candidate, Rufus Mallory of Salem. In the legislative results, Republicans held the state senate fourteen seats to eight and by a razor-thin majority of twenty-four to twenty-three in the lower house. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Oregon," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 605.