UPDATE as of 9:58 p.m.

Ouray County Sheriff Lance FitzGerald has been ousted in a landslide – with 93 percent of voters opting to vote him out of office. Preliminary results show 2,527 votes in favor of the recall and 196 votes to keep FitzGerald as sheriff.

In the county’s first recall election in history, voters overwhelmingly rejected FitzGerald’s plea to keep his position. A bipartisan committee to recall him formed earlier this year after the sheriff was arrested for DUI in 2019...