Category: Local

Seven seats on the Seattle City Council were up for election on Nov. 5. Three incumbents ran for re-election, and all three won. The other four races were open.   The election winners are: District 1: Lisa Herbold (incumbent) District 2: Tammy Morales District 3: Kshama Sawant (incumbent) District 4: Alex Pedersen District 5: Debora…

Chesa Boudin defeated Suzy Loftus, Leif Dautch, and Nancy Tung in last Tuesday’s nonpartisan election for San Francisco District Attorney. Loftus conceded the race Saturday after mail-in ballots tallied over the course of the past week indicated Boudin would win.   Under San Francisco’s system of ranked-choice voting, voters select up to 10 candidates for…

Four out of nine seats on the Houston Independent School District (HISD) school board in Texas were up for election Tuesday. Incumbents Sergio Lira (District III) and Diana Davila (District VIII) lost their re-election bids to Daniela Hernandez and Judith Cruz, respectively.   District II and IV are open, and those races head to runoff…

As of 7:45 a.m. PST Wednesday, the results of San Francisco’s district attorney election remained too close to call. With partial results reported from just under 100% of precincts, Chesa Boudin led with 32.9% of the first-choice vote, followed by Suzy Loftus with 30.8%, Nancy Tung with 20.7%, and Leif Dautch with 15.4%.   Under…

Incumbent Mayor Sylvester Turner and former Texas A&M Board of Regents member Tony Buzbee advanced from Tuesday’s election to a Dec. 14 runoff election for mayor of Houston, Texas. Turner received 47 percent of the vote to Buzbee’s 28 percent. The runoff will take place as no candidate received a majority.   Ten other candidates…

The Working Families Party won an at-large seat on the Philadelphia City Council for the first time in city history, according to unofficial election returns early Wednesday morning.   All 17 seats on the Philadelphia city council were up for election Tuesday. Ten of those seats were elected by voters in the city’s 10 districts,…

Seven seats on the Seattle City Council were up for election Tuesday. No races have been called. Washington uses a vote-by-mail system, and election officials will continue counting ballots postmarked on or before Nov. 5. King County will certify election results Nov. 26. The races saw record-breaking satellite spending of more than $4 million, which…

According to unofficial election night results, about 73% of New York City voters approved Question 1 on Tuesday. The measure makes New York City the most populous jurisdiction in the U.S. to approve the use of the ranked-choice voting election method. Question 1 provides for ranked-choice voting in primary and special elections for mayor, public…

Chesa Boudin, Leif Dautch, Suzy Loftus, and Nancy Tung are running for San Francisco district attorney in the November 5 nonpartisan general election. Incumbent George Gascón declined to seek re-election, setting up the first open-seat contest for the office since 1909. The race has attracted national attention, including in the form of endorsements from Democratic…

Seattle, Washington, holds nonpartisan elections for seven district city council seats on Tuesday, Nov. 5. The races had seen a record-breaking $3.5 million in satellite spending through October 25—more than four times the amount in 2015, the last time the seven district seats were on the ballot. Seattle-based online retailer Amazon contributed $1.5 million to…