Mike McGinn's lead over Joe Mallahan widens to five hundred and fiftten votes

Not much movement in the numbers today from King County Elections in the Seattle mayor's race. Mike McGinn increased his lead over Joe Mallahan, but only very slightly. In fact, Mallahan's total percentage of the vote is also higher than it was yesterday too. (This is possible because the percentage of write-ins declined from .9% to .8% percent). The results suggest that McGinn's lead over Mallahan could be stabilizing, although this race is still too close to call.

If we had to guess who the winner would be, it would probably be Mike McGinn. But Mallahan can't be counted out just yet. If late ballots break in his favor, he could erase McGinn's lead. Here are today's results:

Mike McGinn: 65,172 (49.78%)
Joe Mallahan: 64,657 (49.38%)
Write-in: 1,100 (0.84%)

And here are yesterday's:
Mike McGinn: 52,238 (49.77%)
Joe Mallahan: 51,776 (49.33%)
Write-in: 946 (0.90%)

King County Elections received 63,446 ballots yesterday for a cumulative total of 438,557. We'll know in a few hours how many ballots were received today.

King County Elections is currently reporting 13,800 ballots on hand that need to be processed, as of a few minutes ago. This total does not, of course, include any ballots that have not yet been received. And obviously, not all of the 13,800 ballots received but waiting to be tabulated are from Seattle.