Joe Mallahan's lead is growing in the race for mayor and incumbent Greg Nickels is falling further behind in third place, new results from King County Elections show. Nickels will be holding a press conference tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at City Hall to talk about "the state of election," says Nickels campaign spokesman Sandeep Kaushik.
Seattle Mayor:
Joe Mallahan: 28126 — 27.22%
Mike McGinn: 27586 — 26.69%
Greg Nickels: 26416 — 25.56%
James Donaldson: 8589 — 8.31%
Jan Drago: 7691 — 7.44%
Elizabeth Campbell: 2745 — 2.66%
Kwame Wyking Garrett: 1048 — 1.01%
Norman Zadok Sigler: 880 — 0.85%
It looks like Nickels is done and he knows it. But, perhaps not? Maybe it's not a concession speech, or maybe he's been reading Slog?
The spread between Mallahan and McGinn is fairly narrow (540 votes) but that's more than double the gap between them yesterday. At this rate, Mallahan looks like he can maintain his lead, and it would be extremely difficult for Nickels to reach second place and advance to the general election.
As of yesterday, election workers had tallied 81,725 ballots in the Seattle mayor's race. Today's numbers are based on 107,167 ballots. So that's 25,442 new ballots released in today's count.
King County Elections spokeswoman Kim van Ekstrom estimates they are 30,000 uncounted ballots at the elections headquarters (those are countywide, and she didn't know how many of those were from Seattle voters). She adds that elections officials have received roughly 4,000 ballots that were postmarked too late (after August 18).
King County Executive
Susan Hutchison: 91341 — 34.60%
Dow Constantine: 65885 — 24.96%
Fred Jarrett: 32818 — 12.43%
Larry Phillips: 31635 — 11.98%
Ross Hunter: 29293 — 11.10%
Alan Lobdell: 6495 — 2.46%
Goodspaceguy: 3102 —1.18%
Stan Lippmann: 3024 — 1.15%
Constantine continues to do well in later turn ins. Goodspaceguy has over 3,000 supporters (who are you magical people?). And who would have thought that Fred Jarrett would lead Phillips and Hunter? What a roast on toast.
City Council Position No. 4
Sally Bagshaw: 47125 — 51.69%
David Bloom: 16462 — 18.06%
Dorsol Plants: 11971 — 13.13%
Thomas Tobin: 8053 — 8.83%
Brian Carver: 7286 — 7.99%
City Council Position No. 6
Nick Licata: 51247 — 54.86%
Jessie Israel: 27922 — 29.89%
Marty Kaplan: 13925 — 14.91%
City Council Position No. 8
Mike O'Brien: 31118 — 34.22%
Robert Rosencrantz: 18860 — 20.74%
Jordan Royer: 14379 — 15.81%
Bobby Forch: 11021 — 12.12%
David Miller: 10936 — 12.03%
Rusty Williams: 4351 — 4.78%
City of Seattle Referendum No. 1 (bag fee)
Smart Folks: 47171 — 44.89%
Plastic Industry Suckers: 57913 — 55.11%
Seattle School District No. 1 Director District No. 5
Kay Smith-Blum: 4644 41.12%
Mary E. Bass: 4091 36.23%
Andre Helmstetter: 1324 — 11.72%
Joanna Cullen: 1164 — 10.31%
Seattle School District No. 1 Director District No. 7
Betty Patu 4338 46.63%
Wilson Chin 3831 41.18%
Charlie Mas 1077 11.58%
More results are here.
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My ire was raised by the biased one sided so called "reporting" here solely for McGinn. There is MUCH more to a candidates policy platforms than just where they sit concerning the Viaduct (amongst others)
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