ELECTION RESULTS, DAY 2: Second place changes in Congressional race

King County has released its second ballot count of the primary. The headline is in the race for second place in the U.S. House 7th District primary, to see who will advance to the November general election against Pramila Jayapal. Last night, West Seattleite Joe McDermott was in second, Brady Piñero Walkinshaw in third; tonight, it’s the other way round.

Jayapal 44,540 39.06%
Walkinshaw 24,285 21.29%
McDermott 23,798 20.87%

Most of the district is in King County, with a small slice of Snohomish County, so the official results are on the Secretary of State‘s website. Hundreds of thousands of ballots are still out, and the results won’t be certified until August 16th.

Otherwise, no changes of note – you can check the latest King County results here, and the latest statewide results here.

M August 3, 2016 (10:24 pm)

Do you know if the number of ballots still out is in regards to the Congressional race? Or will that affect the Legislative Race? If it is including the legislative race, than I believe that number should be closer to 10,000 than 33,000 (I base this off of the vote totals currently in for the Legislative race).

WSB August 3, 2016 (10:43 pm)

If you follow the link in the story, you’ll see the ballots mailed and ballots returned per race, at least in King County. For this spotlighted race, 7th Congressional District, King County has 455,197 registered voters (ergo, ballots mailed), and 189,557 ballots returned so far. So that does indeed mean “hundreds of thousands of ballots” still out – in that race.

Fauntleroy cit August 4, 2016 (9:56 am)

What good is it to just report the King County results in this race (with a reference to the state results on another site)?

Suggestion: Report the numbers from the state site and not King County’s numbers.

WSB August 4, 2016 (10:25 am)

Hi! That’s exactly what is shown in our update, the full race numbers (as you can verify if you follow the link). Thanks! – TR

The Truth August 4, 2016 (5:01 pm)

Normally the “blessing” of the mighty 34th Dems is all that is needed to win. Looks like they either lost some luster or the highly criticized endorsement process for this position followed by the Caucus debacle has created some backlash. I expected Joe to easily make the general election. That looks to be in doubt now.

WSB August 4, 2016 (5:15 pm)

Datapoint – the 34th is only one slice of the 7th Congressional District, and not all of the 34th is in the 7th. There are multiple legislative districts comprising the 7th. I am having trouble finding a concise list but it’s more than a few.

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