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Vote counting for the Sammamish City Council is all but over. There are very few new ballots from Sammamish coming into Elections now. Only three more ballots were accounted for from Sammamish from Sunday night to Monday night, according to County data. There were some 200 ballots that hadn’t been counted during the same period, however. On Monday, a total of 339 new votes were counted, meaning an additional 100+ came in on Monday for counting.

As has been the case since the election, Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish padded their vote totals over their opponents.

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There is little change in the trend of vote results for the Sammamish City Council. The trend continues upward for Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish.

The latest results, posted around 7pm Nov. 9, continue to show their vote counts increasing over Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance.

Through Nov. 8,  10,399 ballots from Sammamish have been returned. Through Nov. 9, 8,600 votes have been counted in the “down ballot” City Council races, a drop-off of 17% to the Position 2 race and more to the further down-ballot Positions 4 and 6.

Only 120-124 additional City Council race votes were counted today. Malchow, Valderrama and Hornish padded their leads by about 20 votes each.

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Christie Malchow, Ramiro Valderrama and Tom Hornish continued to increase their lead over Mark Cross, Hank Klein and Tom Vance in the Sammamish City Council race from Tuesday’s election.

New data released at the end of Thursday’s business day shows a modest increase in the vote totals of the first three over the second three. The percent margins changed fractionally.

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Christie Malchow, Position 2 winner

Our first analysis of last night’s election results for Sammamish City Council is that Christie Malchow and Tom Hornish are the winners over Mark Cross and incumbent Tom Vance.

Tom Hornish, Position 6 winner

Ramiro Valderrama faced token opposition from Hank Klein, who dropped out.

Given the wide margins for Malchow and Hornish, reported by King County Elections, their win is clear and unambiguous. (Neither The Sammamish Review nor The Sammamish Reporter wrote this; each merely said Malchow and Hornish were leading.)

Based on voting history since incorporation in 1998, the final voting figures approximately double from Election Night results. Based on this, Sammamish Comment estimates total votes cast in the City Council races should be in the low 10,000 range.

Based on this estimate for the Malchow and Hornish races, Sammamish Comment estimates that Malchow’s opponent, Cross, would have to win just under 69% of the remaining votes to be counted in order to reverse the Election Night results. Hornish’s opponent, Vance, would have to win just over 60% of the remaining vote to defeat Hornish.

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