The Secretary of State’s official voter registration website showed Wednesday that former Rep. Knute Buehler, R-Bend, has left the Republican party and re-registered as a “non-affiliated” voter.

As late as Tuesday night, the Secretary of State’s office listed Buehler as a Republican. As of Wednesday, his voter registration is listed as “Not a member of a party.”

Buehler, the GOP nominee for governor in 2018 and a 2020 candidate in the 2nd congressional district Republican primary, said Feb. 1 that he had decided to leave the party. He said he could no longer remain in the party following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump.

After his statements, which first appeared in the New York Times, Buehler’s registration with the Secretary of State remained listed as a Republican through Feb. 9. Some journalists and critics questioned if Buehler had in fact made the switch.

Buehler said he had made the change online, seen by his wife and a friend, and any listing delay was due to delays with the state system.

The state ORESTAR system showed the change Wednesday morning.

An analysis of January voting records by The New York Times published Wednesday found that nearly 140,000 Republicans have quit the party in 25 states that tracked the data.