ELECTION RESULTS: Library and park levies, School Board, King County Council, Port…

checkbox.jpgAlong with the Seattle City Council District 1 results, we’re also tracking the six other decisions West Seattle voters were asked to make – toplines from the results just released:

SEATTLE LIBRARY LEVY: 73% approval

Yes – 79,722 – 73.0%
No – 29,479 – 27.0%

KING COUNTY PARKS LEVY: 67% approval

Approved – 174,400 – 67.25%
Rejected – 84,944 – 32.75%

SCHOOL BOARD DISTRICT 6: Harris and Mitchell lead

Leslie Harris – 6,898 – 53.41%
Molly Mitchell – 4,365 – 33.80%
Crystal Liston – 1,482 – 11.47%

KING COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICT 8: McDermott and Neher lead

Joe McDermott – 23,826 – 82.48%
Michael Robert Neher – 3,424 – 11.85%
Goodspaceguy – 1,445 – 5.00 %

SEATTLE PORT COMMISSION POSITION 2: Cho and Degginger lead

Sam Cho – 69,673 – 28.27%
Grant Degginger – 64,017 – 25.97%
Preeti Shridhar – 42,377 – 17.19%
Kelly Charlton – 28,813 – 11.69%
Dominic Barrera – 17,021 – 6.91%
Nina Martinez – 14,807 – 6.01%
Ali Scego – 7,842 – 3.18%

SEATTLE PORT COMMISSION POSITION 5: Felleman and Jacobson lead

Fred Felleman – 169,350 – 69.85%
Garth Jacobson – 52,508 – 21.66%
Jordan Lemmon – 18,649 – 7.69%

Next round of results, tomorrow afternoon.

6 Replies to "ELECTION RESULTS: Library and park levies, School Board, King County Council, Port..."

  • Josh August 6, 2019 (10:57 pm)

    My family can’t afford higher taxes. We’re barely hanging on here :( 

  • justme August 7, 2019 (8:03 am)

    @Josh, agreed! Everything I vote down, passes. I can’t understand who these people are that vote yes for all these tax hikes, when everyone I talk to also vote these down. My property taxes have doubled in 8 years time.

  • alki August 7, 2019 (8:37 am)

    swant 37% lead? yikes!!

  • alki August 7, 2019 (8:37 am)

    herbold lead also? my gosh..

  • Mj August 7, 2019 (9:14 am)

    Josh agreed, the Library Levy was to have been a one time event.  The City supplanted money that should have been used to fund libraries to fund other programs.  An honest City Council would let voters decide whether to fund these other programs, but they use library’s due to their high popularity.

  • Jincy August 7, 2019 (9:49 pm)

    Seriously, who keeps voting for all these property tax increases? When is it enough? At some point people just can’t afford to keep bankrolling all this stuff. Did I understand the library tax will be to pay for outstanding late fines? Do we not hold people accountable any longer? Why should taxpayers cover other people’s balances?

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