Day 3 of Election Results

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Nancy Whitten gained ground as measured by percentages, but only fractionally. Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Vance gained ground, also fractionally.

Yesterday (Wednesday) the Sammamish Review, the Seattle Times and the TV stations declared Whitten and Valderrama winners. Vance made the cut on Tuesday night with TV and the Seattle Times but not until Wednesday afternoon for the Sammamish Review.

Of course, you read it here first. We declared all three winners Tuesday night.

Thur, Nov 10 Votes %
Position 2
Nancy Whitten       4,474 53.36%
Kathy Richarson       3,889 46.39%
Position 4
Ramiro Valderrama       4,667 56.88%
Jim Wasnick       3,519 46.39%
Position 6
Jesse Bornfreund       2,494 31.44%
Tom Vance       5,405 68.15%
Wed, Nov 9, 2011 Votes %
Position 2
Nancy Whitten       3,756 53.29%
Kathy Richarson       3,278 46.51%
Position 4
Ramiro Valderrama       3,924 56.67%
Jim Wasnick       2,987 43.14%
Position 6
Jesse Bornfreund       2,125 31.74%
Tom Vance       4,546 67.90%
Election Night  Votes %
Position 2
Nancy Whitten       3,228 53.55%
Kathy Richarson       2,787 46.23%
Position 4
Ramiro Valderrama       3,345 56.47%
Jim Wasnick       2,566 43.32%
Position 6
Jesse Bornfreund       1,833 31.96%
Tom Vance       3,883 67.70%

Day 2 of the Election Results

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Here is the latest from King County:

Wed, Nov 9
 Votes %
Position 2
Nancy Whitten       3,756 53.29%
Kathy Richarson       3,278 46.51%
Position 4
Ramiro Valderrama       3,924 56.67%
Jim Wasnick       2,987 43.14%
Position 6
Jesse Bornfreund       2,125 31.74%
Tom Vance       4,546 67.90%
Election Night  Votes  %
Position 2
Nancy Whitten       3,228 53.55%
Kathy Richarson       2,787 46.23%
Position 4
Ramiro Valderrama       3,345 56.47%
Jim Wasnick       2,566 43.32%
Position 6
Jesse Bornfreund       1,833 31.96%
Tom Vance       3,883 67.70%

As you can see, there was little change in the percentages. I have declared Whitten, Valderrama and Vance the winners for reasons noted in the previous post.

Valderrama, Vance and Whitten win

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Note: Future results updates are available at the King County Elections website here.

The State’s Initiatives website results are here.

The Election Night tally, published about 8:15pm by King County Elections, provided the following results:

Position 2

Nancy Whitten               3,228     53.55%

Kathy Richardson         2,787    46.23%

Position 4

Ramiro Valderrama     3,345     56.47%

Jim Wasnick                    2,566      43.32%

Position 6

Jesse Bornfreund          1,833       31.96%

Tom Vance                      3,883       67.70%

Final results won’t be available until November 30. How, then, can I “call” the winners?

In every electoral race except one since Sammamish was incorporated in 1998, the results posted on Election Night mirrored the final results, within one or two percentage points. The sole exception was the 2001 race between Nancy Whitten and incumbent Ken Kilroy. Whitten led by 17 votes on Election night but lost by fewer than 150 votes when the final tally was in.

The County will post results updates daily; the link of the schedule is here (generally 4:30pm every work day). I’ll be watching the daily results and will update as well.

What do the results mean?

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Council results repudiate “pave-it-over” Town Center ambitions

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Two property owners in the Sammamish Town Center tried to frame this election as an up-or-down referendum of sorts on the Town Center Plan adopted by the City Council.

John Galvin and Mike Rutt, the former the most visible advocate for a pave-it-over approach to the Town Center, and both failed candidates for City Council in the past advocating for a massively up-scaled Town Center plan, clearly persuaded Jim Wasnick and Jesse Bornfreund to make a full review of the plan their top campaign priority.

Both candidates lost, and lost big.

Once again, the citizens have spoken. Time and time and time again since the Planning Advisory Board first proposed six commercial “villages” only to have massive opposition at a community meeting that drew an estimated 200 people, and from the 2001 election in which Nancy Whitten campaigned on an anti-village platform and came within a whisker of beating a complacent Ken Kilroy, citizens have said they prefer a modest Town Center plan to the huge ambitions proposed by Galvin and his fellow land-owners.

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Election Day-results around 8:15pm

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Tuesday is election day. If you haven’t marked your ballot, don’t forget. And it has to be postmarked by EOB today.

Mail Posts in Sammamish have their last pick-ups around 3pm (double check to be sure) and the last drop-box pick-up at the Issaquah Post Office is shortly after 5pm. I believe there is a ballot drop box at the Issaquah Police Department (again, double check) with an 8pm deadline (double check).

Results will be posted by King County at 8:15. There will be two weeks worth of daily result updates.

Watch this blog Tuesday night for results and comment.