At least 33 out of 47 known LGBTQ candidates running for Advisory Neighborhood Commission seats in all eight of the city’s wards won races on Tuesday, according to the latest returns available Wednesday afternoon from the D.C.
Board of Elections. Twenty-five of the 47 LGBTQ candidates, most of whom are incumbent commissioners, ran unopposed. Among the 25 who ran in a contested race, 22 appear to have lost and 9 have won.
Returns from the Board of Elections, although not listed as the final results, show the losing candidates to be far behind their respective opponents in the latest vote counts.
Among those who have lost their race was gay Republican activist and Trump supporter Isaac Smith, who was in third place in a four-candidate race