ELECTION 2024: Primary results, day 2

Here’s our update of second-day numbers in the local/state/federal races we mentioned last night (plus one, by reader request), now that King County’s daily count (and many other counties) is in:

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL POSITION 8 (citywide, full results here) – top two advance

Alexis Mercedes Rinck 52,762 47.00%
Tanya Woo 46,293 41.24%
Saunatina Sanchez 4,842 4.31%
Tariq Yusuf 4,442 3.96%
Saul Patu 3,532 3.15%

34TH DISTRICT STATE HOUSE POSITION 1 – both advance

Emily Alvarado (D)* 21,769 85.23%
Kimberly M. Cloud (R) 3,703 14.5%

34TH DISTRICT STATE HOUSE POSITION 2 – both advance

Joe Fitzgibbon (D)* 21,593 84.1%
Jolie Lansdowne (R) 4,045 15.76%

FROM STATE/FEDERAL RESULTS

GOVERNOR – top two advance

Bob Ferguson (D) 511,653 45.46%
Dave Reichert (R) 316,661 28.14%
Semi Bird (R) 106,338 9.45%
Mark Mullet (D) 66,254 5.89%

ATTORNEY GENERAL – top two advance

Pete Serrano (R) 463,891 41.88%
Nick Brown (D) 397,387 35.87%
Manka Dhingra (D) 245,655 22.18%

(Nick Brown is a West Seattle resident.)

STATE COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS – top two advance

Jaime Herrera Beutler (R) 245,924 22.55%
Sue Kuehl Pederson (R) 221,787 20.33%
Dave Upthegrove (D) 218,819 20.06%
Patrick DePoe (D) 145,986 13.38%

U.S. HOUSE DISTRICT 7 – top two advance

Pramila Jayapal (D)* 99,387 78.51%
Dan Alexander (R) 11,043 8.72%
Liz Hallock (D) 9,868 7.79%
Cliff Moon (R) 6,026 4.76%

By request …

STATE SUPREME COURT, POSITION 2 – top two advance

Sal Mungia 426,675 42.2%
Dave Larson 374,072 37%
Todd A. Bloom 169,613 16.78%
David R Shelvey 36,295 3.59%

Next King County vote count is planned tomorrow afternoon.

Megan August 7, 2024 (6:04 pm)

Is there a way to see what % of King County votes have been counted? Thanks!

WSB August 7, 2024 (8:45 pm)

On the updated-daily results sheet
https://aqua.kingcounty.gov/elections/2024/aug-primary/results.pdf
basically any countywide race shows that percentage (today, 24.15 percent)
the other number to pay attention to for at least a few more days is percentage of ballots received
https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elections/results/ballot-return-statistics/2024/august-primary
39.99 percent (which means the final turnout, since the received ballots slow to a trickle a few days post-election, will be close to KCE’s 40 percent prediction) … TR

1994 August 7, 2024 (10:28 pm)

Nick Brown – good to know he is a West Seattleite! He got my vote!

Jay August 8, 2024 (3:01 pm)

It’s really sad to see conservatives take over the Commissioner of Public Lands position. I think it’s the end of a really wonderful era of sustainable logging and new recreation development. I’m really depressed thinking about Beutler saying that our forest management strategies are all wrong and that we need to… remove dead trees and the flammable brush. They’re not even trying to pretend that they have reasonable policy solutions. Remember when we mocked the president for saying we need to sweep the forests to prevent fires? Now we’re voting for that to be policy. Both conservative campaigns are funded by the logging industry, by the way. And that position has an enormous amount of power. It’s so long and difficult to build good things, and so quick and easy for reactionary politics to tear them down.

CommissionerPublicLands August 8, 2024 (11:06 pm)

Upthegrove is currently in 3rd place by a little under 2k votes. There are still 422k ballots to review, with 121k of those being King County alone and where I’m guessing many votes will be for Upthegrove. I think there is still hope that the final run off won’t be between two conservatives!
- k August 9, 2024 (3:53 pm)
  
  Dave Upthegrove is now in second place, and less than 7,000 votes behind Jaime H Beutler.
  - WSB August 9, 2024 (4:15 pm)
    
    https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20240806/commissioner-of-public-lands.html
    That is true right now, but I don’t know when other counties’ ballot drops are. Yesterday I tweeted that he was fewer than 200 votes behind, after the King County drop … and then some other counties came in and he was back to a four-digit deficit. So check around 6 pm and that’s likely where things stand for the day!

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