Analysis of one week’s worth of voting results from Sammamish shows Sound Transit 3 losing here by a 51.69% to 48.30% margin.
Vote counting continues to Nov. 29, when the election results are certified.
Sound Transit 3 is the $54bn mass transit plan that includes $27bn in tax hikes over 25 years.
Sammamish gets reduced bus service out of the plan and a prospective park and ride at the north end.
Andy Hill.
State Sen. Andy Hill (R-45th) lost his second battle with cancer Monday. He was just 54.
Hill was a respected legislator regardless of party. He was given credit for co-writing recent state budgets during contentious times.
Elected in 2010, he was midway through his second term.
Party leaders will appoint someone to fill his vacancy for the remaining two years of his term.
Ballots for the Nov. 8 election will be mailed Oct. 19 by King County Elections.
Like most states, Washington has early voting, this in the form of mail-in voting.
Because of ballots mailed overseas to expats and military personnel, the state counts ballots for two weeks after Election Day as long as the mailings are postmarked no later than this day.
Click once on image to enlarge, then click on the image a second time. Write in votes are excluded from the data analysis.
Roger Goodman, the Democrat seeking a sixth term in the State House of Representatives for the 45th Legislative District, defeated Sammamish Deputy Mayor Ramiro Valderrama in his home city in the Aug. 2 primary.
Goodman receive 56.5% of the vote. He carried 21 of 24 precincts and tied in one more.
For Valderrama, who carried every precinct in the city-wide City Council November election in 2015, this is a stunning reversal of fortune.
It’s a clear message from Sammamish voters that they want Valderrama to stay in Sammamish to serve more than a year of his four year term to which he was reelected just 10 months ago.
District-wide, Valderrama received only 38% of the vote in the primary. The primary result historically is a predictor of the final result in the November general election. This is Nov. 8 this year.
A color-coded map and more analysis is after the jump.
King County Elections today (Aug. 16) certified the results of the Aug. 2 primary. The top two winners, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the Nov. 8 General Election.
The 8th Congressional District and the 5th, 41st and 45th Legislative District include Sammamish.
Sammamish Comment isn’t covering state-wide races. These results may be found here.
In the Sammamish area, two State Senate races are too close to project a winner for the November General Election: those in the 5th and 41st.
Sammamish Deputy Mayor Ramiro Valderrama, running as a Republican for Position 1 in the 45th LD House, received only 38% of the primary vote. He advances to November.
The Comment has projected winners in the November election in the chart below. The August primary typically serves as proxy for the November election.
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