Category Archives: City Politics

Ghassemieh, Indapure led fund raising, expenditures in City Council races

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Minal Ghassemieh and Rituja Indapure raised more and spent more money than any other candidate for Sammam City Council, to mixed results.

Ghassemieh was defeated in her bid to advance to the general election for Position 3. Her opponents, Karen Howe and Karen Moran, raised less than half and spent about one third of the money in their winning bids to advance to the November election.

Indapure swamped her opponents in fund raising and spending in Position 5 but had a poor second place finish against Chris Ross, who through Friday had 47% of the vote to Indapure’s 31.5%. The third candidate, Ryika Hooshangi, trailed Indapure by 10 points.

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Aug. 4 Primary results: Position 3 safely for Moran, Howe

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Four days after the primary election, the spread of votes between third place Minal Ghassemieh and second place Karen Howe continues to widen. This is an unbroken trend since election night Tuesday.

Howe now leads Ghassemieh by 282 votes, up from 256 yesterday. Karen Moran, in first place, also widened her lead over Howe, to 392 votes from 359 yesterday.

Sammamish Comment now declares this race beyond doubt, firming up its election night projection that Howe and Moran would likely be the winners.

The latest update is below.

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Aug. 3 Primary results: still just fractional changes; Howe widens lead over Ghassemieh, Moran over Howe

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Day 3 of the vote counting in the Aug. 1 primary for Sammamish City Council and the 45th Legislative District State Senate races continue to show fractional changes in the percentages for each candidate.

In the very close Position 3 City Council primary, the percentages narrowed again slightly–but Minal Ghassemieh lost ground slightly in the actual vote count.

She ended primary night 229 votes behind Karen Howe, who is second to Karen Moran. Yesterday, Ghassemieh trailed Howe by 250 votes. Today, she trails by 256 votes.

Moran continues to widen her lead over Howe in votes counted.

The updated chart is below.

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Fractional changes in Sammamish, 45th LD

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There are only fractional changes in the second day of ballot counting in the Aug. 1 primary for the Sammamish City Council and 45th Legislative District results.

The update is below.

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Ross, Indapure, Stuart, Robinson win; Moran, Howe projected to win; 45th LD goes as expected

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Chris Ross and Pam Stuart ended primary night with sweeping victories for the Sammamish City Council, The Sammamish Comment projects.

Rituja Indapure and John Robinson are also winners, The Comment projects.

Ross and Indapure are running for Position 5.

Stuart and Robinson are running for Position 7.

In Position 3, it’s a tight race between Karen Moran, Karen Howe and Minal Ghassemieh. But based on historical voting patterns in which the election night results differ only 1% to 2% in the final results, Sammamish Comment projects that Howe and Moran will likely advance to the general election in November. We expect this vote to tighten during the next two weeks. Votes are certified Aug. 15.

The vote results are below.

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