King County Elections today certified the results of the Aug. 1 primary, in which three of the four seats for Sammamish City Council were on the ballot.
The fourth seat only had two candidates and were not subject to the primary.
The winners are as Sammamish Comment projected on primary night. The final results are below.
Chris Ross and Pam Stuart ended primary night with sweeping victories for the 
Sammamish City Council, The Sammamish Comment projects.
Rituja Indapure and John Robinson are also winners, The Comment projects.
Ross and Indapure are running for Position 5.
Stuart and Robinson are running for Position 7.
In Position 3, it’s a tight race between Karen Moran, Karen Howe and Minal Ghassemieh. But based on historical voting patterns in which the election night results differ only 1% to 2% in the final results, Sammamish Comment projects that Howe and Moran will likely advance to the general election in November. We expect this vote to tighten during the next two weeks. Votes are certified Aug. 15.
The vote results are below.
It’s election day for the Sammamish City Council primary.
Mail-in ballots must be post-marked today; there is a drop-in ballot at the Sammamish City Hall.
The first results will be posted by King County Elections about 8:15 8:30 pm; Sammamish Comment will post shortly afterwards. It takes about three weeks for all mail-in ballots to be received (allowing for overseas and military ballots to arrive) and the votes certified. History shows that election night results are within 1%-2% of the final results.
Our final readership tracking of candidate questionnaires is below. We don’t know if election results will follow the readership interest; it’s the only “polling” available.
The primary vote for Sammamish City Council is tomorrow.
Three people are running for each of Postions 3, 5 and 7. Only two will advance to the general election in November.
Our recommendations for those who we believe would best serve Sammamish:
As Sammamish’s City Council primary heads into the final weekend before Tuesday’s vote, Sammamish Comment tracked the reader views of the questionnaires to gauge interest in the candidates.
There is no polling of a City Council election that we know of, so the readership of the questionnaires is the only solid evidence of interest in candidates.
Facebook has had a lively discussion of some of the candidates, but the participants are tilted decisively into a no-growth camp.
The readership interest in the candidate questionnaires is not scientific, but it’s the only thing we have to go on.
The question is, will this be a predictor of the outcome Tuesday night?
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