Category Archives: City Politics

Nov. 6 Election results: Malchow, Valderrama, Hornish continue to gain votes

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Update, 7:30pm, Nov. 6: King County Elections did a second data dump. The chart on the right has been updated with the additional information. More than 1,600 votes were counted today Nov 6 Resultsover yesterday.

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King County did a second data dump at 7pm last night, something not normally done, with an additional 500 or so votes counted. Chistie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish continued to pad their vote tallies, though percentages were slightly lower than earlier in the day and week.

Today’s data dump (Friday) continued to see the winning three pad their vote totals.

The next County update will be Monday afternoon.

Nov. 5 Sammamish City Council results: Malchow, Valderrama, Hornish pad their vote totals; victory assured

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Nov 5 results

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Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish continued to increase their lead over Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance in the Sammamish City Council race from Tuesday’s election.

New data released at the end of Thursday’s business day shows a modest increase in the vote totals of the first three over the second three. The percent margins changed fractionally.

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How Sammamish veterans lost their City Council races

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  • Note: This is 11 pages when printed.
Nov 4 results

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How did two veterans of Sammamish public service lose their bids for election to the City Council in the Nov. 3 election to two unknown newcomers to the City?

They lost through a combination of miscalculation, arrogance, the split of traditional coalitions, angry opposition, tenacious newcomers and a one-term Council Member who wasn’t about to cower in the face of determined opposition.

They also had an unwitting helping hand from their own Deputy Mayor, whose obsessions galvanized the opposition to upset her allies.

This is the inside story of how Mayor Tom Vance lost to two-year resident Tom Hornish and how former Mayor and Council Member Mark Cross lost a comeback bid to a feisty young Mom in tennis shoes, Christie Malchow, invoking remembrances of another tennis shoe Mom campaign in Washington long before Malchow moved here.

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Quick take on election results: clear, unambiguous wins for Malchow, Hornish

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Christie Malchow, Position 2 winner

Our first analysis of last night’s election results for Sammamish City Council is that Christie Malchow and Tom Hornish are the winners over Mark Cross and incumbent Tom Vance.

Tom Hornish, Position 6 winner

Ramiro Valderrama faced token opposition from Hank Klein, who dropped out.

Given the wide margins for Malchow and Hornish, reported by King County Elections, their win is clear and unambiguous. (Neither The Sammamish Review nor The Sammamish Reporter wrote this; each merely said Malchow and Hornish were leading.)

Based on voting history since incorporation in 1998, the final voting figures approximately double from Election Night results. Based on this, Sammamish Comment estimates total votes cast in the City Council races should be in the low 10,000 range.

Based on this estimate for the Malchow and Hornish races, Sammamish Comment estimates that Malchow’s opponent, Cross, would have to win just under 69% of the remaining votes to be counted in order to reverse the Election Night results. Hornish’s opponent, Vance, would have to win just over 60% of the remaining vote to defeat Hornish.

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Election Night Results: Malchow, Valderrama, Hornish sweep by wide margins

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  • Margins are wide enough to declare victory:
  • Position 2: Christie Malchow 59% vs Mark Cross 41%
  • Position 4: Ramiro Valderrama (Incumbent) 82% vs Hank Klein 18%
  • Position 6: Tom Hornish 55% vs Tom Vance (Incumbent) 45%

King County posted the Election Night results at about 8:15pm. Additional results will be posted every week day about 4pm for the next three weeks. The election will be certified November 24.

Historically, the final results are within 1%-2% of Election Night results. Sammamish Comment will update results regularly. The Comment will have an election analysis with tomorrow’s update in the late afternoon.