Whole lot of last-minute voters in our area – while the last pre-election count of returned ballots showed only about 9,000 out of 60,000 had been received, that number has almost doubled to just under 18,000, for a turnout of about 30 percent. Meantime, the fourth round of King County election results is out; here’s the latest in four of the races that were on your ballot (the full list of all results around the county is here):

CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 (West Seattle/South Park)
Lisa Herbold – 5072 – 30.10%
Shannon Braddock – 4703 – 27.91%
Phillip Tavel – 3053 – 18.12%
Brianna Thomas – 1720 – 10.21%
Chas Redmond – 1235 – 7.33%
Jody Rushmer – 355 – 2.11%
Karl Wirsing – 239 – 1.42%
Arturo Robles – 231 – 1.37%
Pavel Goberman – 191 – 1.13%

SCHOOL BOARD POSITION 6 (West Seattle/South Park, district vote in the primary, citywide in the general)
Leslie Harris – 7287 – 48.11%
Marty McLaren* – 5727 – 37.81%
Nick Esparza – 2054 – 13.56%

PORT COMMISSION POSITION 2 (at large)
Courtney Gregoire* – 220612 – 82.91%
Goodspaceguy – 23985 – 9.01%
John Naubert – 19963 – 7.50%

PORT COMMISSION POSITION 5 (at large)
Fred Felleman – 64709 – 24.71%
Marion Yoshino – 47202 – 18.02%
Richard Pope – 41054 – 15.67%
Ken Rogers – 29459 – 11.25%
Darrell Bryan – 27186 – 10.38%
Herb Krohn – 20762 – 7.93%
Norman Z. Sigler – 18542 – 7.08%
Mark Hennon – 6961 – 2.66%
Daniel E. Reandeau – 5173 – 1.98%

King County will announce daily vote counts until certification a week from Tuesday. The general election is on Tuesday, November 3rd, which includes not only more races, but also ballot measures including the “Move Seattle” transportation levy