ELECTION UPDATE: Newest count – Herbold 28 votes over Braddock

With the election headed for certification next Tuesday – after which a recount will surely follow in the City Council District 1 race – today’s results have Lisa Herbold gaining three more votes over Shannon Braddock:

Lisa Herbold – 12,437 – 49.73%
Shannon Braddock – 12,409 – 49.62%

A few hundred ballots with problems (unverified signatures, for example) are still being dealt with. In all, about 28,000 ballots were turned in by District 1 voters, who number almost 61,000, and that’s a ~45% turnout. You’ll notice by doing the math, more than 2,000 did not vote in this race at all; 164 are tallied as write-ins, though the county doesn’t report whose names were written in.

Lonnie November 19, 2015 (6:00 pm)

Twenty eight thousand votes counted with a total of 28 votes difference between the two candidates. And…..if you think your vote doesn’t matter. Think again!!

I. Ponder November 19, 2015 (6:21 pm)

I did the math. 33,000 registered voters in District 1 did not bother to vote.

WSB November 19, 2015 (7:02 pm)

I was referring to the people who voted but didn’t vote on the District 1 race. But yes, your number is even sadder.

redblack November 19, 2015 (9:23 pm)

that’s 33,000 people who have given up their rights to gripe about seattle politics.

seriously. the “none of the above” crowd need to get their joint and several acts together. ;)

Judy Adams November 20, 2015 (12:13 am)

Maybe people don’t bother to vote since it really doesn’t matter who wins…..left is left when you live in Seattle!!!

Rick November 20, 2015 (4:45 am)

Seattle-“Where the only right vote is left”.

Scott November 20, 2015 (8:24 am)

And this is why mail in ballots don’t work and create community like polling sites did.

Sevenless November 20, 2015 (9:35 am)

@Scott except off-year voting in the year before presidential elections is actually up since mandatory mail-in balloting started. In 2003, for example, city-wide turnout was below 37%. The biggest difference year-to-year seems to do more with top line issues – mayor, president, congress, or major initiatives all draw in a lot more voters.

FauntleroyHomer November 20, 2015 (10:17 am)

Pretty clearly, there will be no mandate for either candidate when they take office. I would like to hear both candidates describe what this dead heat election means for how they intend to govern?

What are their takeaways if their constituents are essentially evenly divided?

redblack November 20, 2015 (7:39 pm)

judy adams, rick, et al:

this city is not run by liberals. this is the most big-business-friendly city in america.

small business? not so much.

we have low taxes for the rich, high taxes for the poor, a low level of public services, a third-world transit system that runs on pavement…

this town is trump’s wet dream.

it’s high time for some real liberalism and truly representative democracy. let’s hope that districting and public financing of elections advance us toward more altruistic goals.

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