27 Replies to "ELECTION RESULTS: Here's the second round"

• K November 5, 2025 (3:55 pm)

  My god voters in this city are gullible.

  • KT November 5, 2025 (4:29 pm)

    Only 45% of them, the other 55% are apathetic and didn’t vote.

  • Jort November 5, 2025 (4:50 pm)

    I will never get tired of this perspective, which essentially amounts to: “The voters of Seattle are too stupid to vote the way I want them to.” You can complain about the electorate all day long but you get the voters that you get. That’s how it goes. 

  • Lagartija Nick November 5, 2025 (5:04 pm)

    Gullible? Like voting for the 34 count felon and adjudicated rapist. 

    • k November 5, 2025 (8:45 pm)

      Like that, and like voting for the guy that pulled a gun on a woman over a parking spot, never apologized, but claims to be the candidate of accountability and public safety.  Gullible like buying the narrative that the woman who lives in an apartment and had to ask for her parents’ help with child care during her campaign is somehow more “privileged” than the man worth $15 million.  Gullible enough to believe Harrell will stand up to Trump, while his Chief of Police assists ICE in “drug enforcement” operations that only net Latinos.  Gullible enough to believe Wilson doesn’t have what it takes to get things done when she has done more for the city while out of office than Harrell did while in it. 

      Harrell would have been sunk if he couldn’t raid JumpStart revenues to fund basic city functions.  Wilson is the reason that money was there.  Wilson also proposed publicly owned grocery stores, and Harrell thought that was a good enough idea to issue an executive order directing the city to acquire shuttering grocery stores in the city.  I’m so tired of women being held to such a high standard that the man who is riding the coattails of her policies is not only getting credit, but getting away with branding her too inexperienced to make a difference while at it.  I am beyond disappointed that so many voters in this city failed to see through Harrell’s smear campaign and outright lies about his accomplishments.  Do better, voters.

• M November 5, 2025 (4:10 pm)

  How often are the ballot drops? Will the next one not be until tomorrow? 

  • WSB November 5, 2025 (4:11 pm)

    Every weekday afternoon until the election is certified. Times vary – they aim for 4 but could be earlier, as it was today.

    • Del Griffith November 5, 2025 (5:00 pm)

      Any past data on how many days it typically takes before a winner is clear?

      • WSB November 5, 2025 (6:07 pm)

        Until the margin by which someone’s ahead is larger than the number of ballots remaining. But anything can happen … perhaps the most famous case was Kshama Sawant ousting incumbent Richard Conlin in 2013 (when the entire council was still at-large) … she had 46 percent on election night, pulled ahead a week later, and was declared the winner three days after that.

      • sk November 6, 2025 (4:34 am)

        i’ve read other seattle political blogs claiming the thursday-after-electtion drop (so this afternoon’s) is the one where the picture becomes clearest about what final, certified result will be. however, as others mention or allude to, if race is close, it may be several days after that when race is called before certification a few weeks later. consensus seems to be that if wilson doesn’t make big inroads into harrell’s lead on the thursday drop, things won’t be looking good for her. little frustrating how slow this process is, but eh, i guess this is part-and-parcel of full mail-in-voting which on balance does give the most registered voters a chance to participate so i live with it.

  • Hruce Barrell November 6, 2025 (3:33 pm)

    Now is not a time for hope

• Duwamesque November 5, 2025 (4:16 pm)

  Less a quarter of ballots counted and Harrell’s lead holding so far. Anything could happen at this point but that it is interesting no late break for Wilson…

  • Voter November 6, 2025 (8:54 am)

    According to an article in the Seattle Times, there are roughly 90,000 Seattle votes left to be counted. So more than half of the ballots have been counted. 

• S November 5, 2025 (4:38 pm)

  Bruce has to loose. Hes way to corrupt. I dont understand how anyone could vote the rest of this progressive ticket and pick the guy robbing housing assistance to pay cops more money.

  • CAM November 5, 2025 (6:34 pm)

    I don’t think you’re accounting for the people who won’t vote for a woman to be in any executive position because she’s “unqualified” or “won’t be able to accomplish anything.” Somehow those people voting in line with their predictions creates the exact result they predicted. 

    • Der November 5, 2025 (9:25 pm)

      But she’s actually unqualified though. It’s a fair conclusion to draw from her actual self-reported background. I don’t see the value in clinging to injustice conspiracies in this case. 

      • CAM November 6, 2025 (12:01 am)

        And Der just proved my point. Making a subjective declaration that cannot be verified by any standardized metric because their isn’t one and then saying if you disagree it’s because you’re not as rational as them because you’re falling for a conspiracy theory.

• Hopeful November 5, 2025 (4:51 pm)

  Wonder if Harrell will look at what he’s “not getting done” that allowed Katie Wilson to give him a run for the money. I hope this is a wake up call for his office and things like safety and accountability get more attention.

  • Rosey November 5, 2025 (7:08 pm)

    He won’t, and he will walk back every progressive stance he made this year out of fear of losing the election.

• ModerateMan November 5, 2025 (5:15 pm)

  Harrell is an awesome mayor and he has been to the top of the Space Needle. Things are looking up for Seattle!!! Go Bruce!!

  • Bob the donkey whisperer November 5, 2025 (6:20 pm)

    He is indeed in an elite and exclusive group of people who have been up the space needle. They only let a few hundred up there a day. I’d vote for literally anyone that has done it.

• Andy November 5, 2025 (6:25 pm)

  This is what democracy looks like! Voting and civil discourse. I love all of you, regardless of who you voted for or political party 

• Scarlett November 5, 2025 (7:05 pm)

  To those who always want a born and raised here politician, I wonder if they realize just how many non-natives are running this city, whether it be in business,  government – or the sciences?  My work team  is comprised completely of people from out-of-state. 

  • CAM November 5, 2025 (7:25 pm)

    They’d strongly prefer your work team not be here either. They’ve been screaming for years that Seattle is “closed.”

• Peter November 5, 2025 (8:11 pm)

  As I said yesterday: “The claim that progressives are going to vote in droves at the last minute to unseat a lifelong liberal Democrat is laughable.”

• WSB November 6, 2025 (3:46 pm)

  Third round’s out. I’m keeping the missing child atop the page so not publishing a story on this immediately. Wilson is closer in this round, less than 6 points back, was 8 points yesterday.
  https://election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf

  • WSB November 6, 2025 (4:09 pm)

    … and the missing child’s been found, so here’s the results update:
    https://westseattleblog.com/2025/11/election-results-in-third-round-harrell-wilson-gap-narrows/

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