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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

New numbers from King County: Mallahan gains, Constantine holds steady

King County has just updated its election results to include new returns tabulated today. It's mostly good news: Referendum 71 continues to enjoy widespread support and Initiative 1033 continues to face widespread opposition.

Our next King County Executive, Dow Constantine, is holding steady with more than 57% of the vote. He's actually widened his lead by several thousand votes, assuring his victory over Republican Susan Hutchison. She is simply too far behind to have a serious chance of catching up and overtaking him.

But if she wants to be a sore loser and not concede, well, that's fine. It just affirms that the people of King County made a smart decision in choosing Dow.

Meanwhile, in the Seattle mayor's race, Joe Mallahan has narrowed the gap between himself and Mike McGinn. Mallahan is now at 49.33% of the vote to McGinn's 49.77. They are separated by only four hundred and sixty two votes. If this trend continues, Mallahan could conceivably overtake McGinn, but it's also very possible that McGinn could end up ahead again when all is said and done.

At this point, the race could go in either direction and it's too close to call. Pundits who have declared a McGinn victory are getting ahead of themselves.

What is with Seattle and close mayoral elections?

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