In the Seattle, King County, and statewide races:
Seattle Mayor
Mike McGinn: 52,238 49.77 percent
Joe Mallahan: 51,776 49.33 percent
Gap: 462 votes
City Attorney
Pete Holmes57,251 62.17 percent
Tom Carr 34,661 37.64 percent
Gap: 22,590 votes
City Council Position 2
Richard Conlin 70,207 76.20 percent
David Ginsberg 21,688 23.54 percent
Gap: 48,519 votes
City Council Position 4
Sally Bagshaw 64,324 69.08 percent
David Bloom 28,587 30.7 percent
Gap: 35,737 votes
City Council Position 6
Nick Licata 54,740 56.92 percent
Jessie Israel 41,218 42.86 percent
Gap: 13,522 votes
City Council Position 8
Mike O’Brien 53,365 57.1 percent
Robert Rosencrantz 39,894 42.68 percent
Gap: 13,471 votes
Housing Levy
Yes 67,076 64.2 percent
No 37,400 35.8 percent
Gap: 29,676 votes
Seattle Port Commission (contested races)
Position 3
Rob Holland 139,020 54.99 percent
David Doud 113,128 44.75 percent
Gap: 25,892 votes
Position 4
Tom Albro 138,239 56.95 percent
Max Vekich 102,586 42.26 percent
Gap: 35,653 votes
King County Executive
Susan Hutchison 125,607 42.26 percent
Dow Constantine 171,006 57.53 percent
Gap: 45,399 votes
King County Assessor (top two)
Lloyd Hara 82,864 33.2 percent
Bob Rosenberger 72,525 29.06 percent
Gap: 10,339 votes
Initiative 1033
Yes 459,918 43.95 percent
No 586,626 56.05 percent
Gap: 96,708 votes
Referendum 71
Approved 559,665 51.83 percent
Rejected 520,115 48.17 percent
Gap: 39,549 votes
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And Mallahan won nearly 51% of today’s votes counted to McGinn’s 48.67%.
Ref 71 widens the lead, if only by a bit.
In the primary, McGinn led on Tuesday and Mallahan took the lead on both Wednesday and Thursday’s results.
Would be helpful to also express the gap in each race as a percentage.
Erica: Is there any indication why so few votes got counted today? Yesterday the count was up to something like 23.4% of the registered voters, and today it only went up to 29.29%. That doesn’t sound normal to me. Was there a problem in the count, or was the total received today so low that there weren’t any more ballots to count?
I just heard on King5 that 4,300 ballots have not been counted because signatures do not match those on record.
hate to say it, but i said licata would get b/w 55-57%, not 60.
6. Maybe they began counting well in advance of the 8:15 release, as in days before. Keep in mind they intended to count all ballots received up until late last week for that first drop. That’s a few weeks worth of ballots. It would figure that a subsequent 24 hour count would yield far less.
Gomez,
King County is not able to start counting the ballots until election day. They are able to process ballots and get them ready to be counted, but they can’t count them until EDay.
Okay, confirmed. I was just taking a guess there.
Re: how slow it is – because they’ve been processing, ballots that were already in were easy to count quickly. New ballots now have to go through the entire process, which would explain why it’s taking, and will take, awhile to count the votes.
In the primary, McGinn led on Tuesday and Mallahan took the lead on both Wednesday and Thursday's results.