Final vote counting in the Nov. 7 election confirmed election night results and Sammamish Comment’s projected winners.
Vote tallies for Positions 1, 3 and 7 were within one percentage point from election night to the final results.
Tallies in Position 5 narrowed almost two points. Winner Chris Ross on election night pulled 54.65% of the vote to Rituja Indapure’s 45.35%. By the final tally, the percentages were 52.77% and 47.17% respectively.
The detailed chart is below.
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
Ballots for the Nov. 7 election arrive this week.
Sammamish citizens will be voting for four positions for City Council, one for the King County Council District 3 and a special election for the balance of the State Senator for the 45th Legislative District.
Sammamish Comment published candidate questionnaires for City Council during the primary and general election periods.
Below are links to the general election questionnaires, which have links to the primary questionnaires and to ones submitted to Sammamish Friends.
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