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.
Minal Ghassemieh and Rituja Indapure raised more and spent more money than any other 
candidate for Sammam City Council, to mixed results.
Ghassemieh was defeated in her bid to advance to the general election for Position 3. Her opponents, Karen Howe and Karen Moran, raised less than half and spent about one third of the money in their winning bids to advance to the November election.
Indapure swamped her opponents in fund raising and spending in Position 5 but had a poor second place finish against Chris Ross, who through Friday had 47% of the vote to Indapure’s 31.5%. The third candidate, Ryika Hooshangi, trailed Indapure by 10 points.
Four days after the primary election, the spread of votes between third place Minal 
Ghassemieh and second place Karen Howe continues to widen. This is an unbroken trend since election night Tuesday.
Howe now leads Ghassemieh by 282 votes, up from 256 yesterday. Karen Moran, in first place, also widened her lead over Howe, to 392 votes from 359 yesterday.
Sammamish Comment now declares this race beyond doubt, firming up its election night projection that Howe and Moran would likely be the winners.
The latest update is 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.
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