I usually wait a day or three for things to settle before posting election results. Washington State has mail-in ballots, and requires postmark by election day, so things will filter in over the next few days, final numbers change, and often there is a late surge or position that is "hanging fire" - too close to call. Usually for this end of the state, all this means that late voters who trend younger and more progressive.
Over in Seattle proper, every candidate for city council that made it into the top-two November election was endorsed either by The Stranger or The Seattle Times. In fact, the Stranger's candidates received the most votes in five of the seven positions (for those keeping score). So the general election over there will be between a progressive-ish candidate and a central-ish candidate. So there's that.
And 22.5% of registered voters in the County voted. Which is ... not horrible for an off-season election, but still kinda sucky.
So, for the stuff that I am paying attention to, here's what I have:
King County Preposition No. 1 Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy - APPROVED at 70%. Not bad for a popular levy already approved a number of times already that had no opposition. Of course, that means that 30% will vote against a levy on general principles.
Port of Seattle Commissioner Position No. 5 - Incumbent FRED FELLEMAN (55%) versus JESSE TAM (27%)
City of Kent Council Position No. 3 - JOHN BOYD (36%) versus KELLY WIGANS-CRAWFORD (23%)
Kent School District No. 415 District No. 415, Director District No. 3 - LESLIE KAE HAMADA (49%) versus DONALD COOK (24%). Got a late mailer from Hamada's campaign which had a big globby typo on it ("Oustanding" instead of "Outstanding"), but that the only news there.
And with that The Political Desk is retiring to the back deck with a rum & cola. Be back in October.
More later,
