With additional votes counted on the day after the Election, there were no changes in the outcomes and only fractional changes in the percentages.
The chart below the jump includes last night’s vote count and today’s for comparison.
Jason Ritchie, Karen Moran, Chris Ross and Pam Stuart are projected winners of the Sammamish City Council seats.
Kathy Lambert has been reelected to a fifth term on the King County Council. Democrats flipped the State Senate seat for the 45th Legislative District.
Indications are there may have been an unusually heavy turnout for a City Council election.
So far, 26% of the ballots have been returned. By the time the last ballot is counted after Thanksgiving, typically the return about doubles. There are 36,136 registered voters in Sammamish. Typically, a City Council election sees a turnout of 40%-45%.
City Manager Lyman Howard announced at 7:20pm tonight during the Council meeting that the ballot drop box at City Hall had been emptied a couple of times today.
Here are the projected winners of today’s election. Details to come shortly.
Sammamish City Council:
King County District 3:
Kathy Lambert
45th Legislative District:
Manka Dhingra
The Tax Day of Reckoning for Sammamish has arrived.
The City Council tonight may decide whether to adopt a 1% property tax hike, something Councils have avoided for the past eight years.
It could even decide to recapture the eight years of deferrals, or an 8% increase in property taxes, but this is unlikely.
Council Member Don Gerend also suggested the possibility of a utility tax during a study session last night.
Council Member Kathy Huckabay suggested a Transportation Benefit District tax dedicated only to road projects.
The long-awaited “crossover point” when deficit spending occurs for the Sammamish city budget—in recent years 
projected to be early next decade—may be here now.
The City Council takes up the budget tonight and a comparison of revised figures by Council Candidate Mark Baughman shows proposed expenditures exceed projected revenues by $4m.
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