The Thursday, August 3rd ballot counts have dropped! Here’s who’s rising and who’s fading

Today, the pop­u­lous coun­ties in Wash­ing­ton that have Top Two elec­tions this year pub­lished the results of their third con­sec­u­tive dai­ly bal­lot tab­u­la­tion, bring­ing statewide vot­er turnout up to 27.94% and giv­ing us a bet­ter sense of what the elec­toral land­scape will look like when the returns are cer­ti­fied on August 15th.

Here’s a run­down of who is ris­ing and fad­ing based on the lat­est results!

Seattle City Council

• Ris­ing: Maren Cos­ta. Fad­ing: Rob Saka. Cos­ta had 29.05% of the vote on Elec­tion Night. She’s since improved to 32.95%, which is near­ly a four point increase. Her clos­est rival, Rob Saka, has slipped to 24.2%.
• Ris­ing: Tam­my Morales. Fad­ing: Tanya Woo. Morales had less than a major­i­ty of the vote on Elec­tion Night. Now she’s at 52.08% and has put some dis­tance in between her can­di­da­cy and that of chal­lenger Tanya Woo.
• Ris­ing: Alex Hud­son. Fad­ing: Joy Hollingsworth. Hud­son has pulled to with­in a few hun­dred votes of rival Joy Hollingsworth. She has 36.47%; Hollingsworth still leads with 37.11%.
• Ris­ing: Chris­Tiana Obey­Sum­n­er. Fad­ing: Nilu Jenks. The con­test for sec­ond place increas­ing­ly looks like it’s going to go to Chris­Tiana Obey­Sum­n­er. Nilu Jenks was­n’t behind by much on Elec­tion Night, but she has slipped as count­ing has gone on, with Obey­Sum­n­er increas­ing their lead. On Elec­tion Night, Obey­Sum­n­er stood at 21.38%. Now, they have 24.09% of the vote. Jenks has slipped from 19.04% to 18.87%.
• Ris­ing: Andrew Lewis. Coun­cilmem­ber Lewis, who rep­re­sents down­town, did­n’t quite have 41% of the vote on Elec­tion Night. Now he’s up to an even 43%. His reelec­tion prospects are brightening.

Spokane

• Ris­ing: Lisa Brown. Fad­ing: Nadine Wood­ward. Demo­c­ra­t­ic may­oral hope­ful Lisa Brown had a tri­umphant Elec­tion Night on Tues­day and her posi­tion has only improved since then. She went from 46.8% to 47.52% today, while incum­bent Nadine Wood­ward has lost ground. Wood­ward, a Repub­li­can, had 38.66% on Tues­day and has now slid to 36.61%.
• Ris­ing: Bet­sy Wilk­er­son. Fad­ing: Kim Plese. Wilk­er­son, the top vote get­ter for City Coun­cil Pres­i­dent, has also seen a bounce since Elec­tion Night. On Tues­day, her per­cent­age was 48.07%. Now, she’s reached 49.04% of the vote. Her clos­est rival, Kim Plese, has slid from 36.33% to 35.84%.
• Ris­ing: Paul Dil­lon. Fad­ing: Katey Ran­dall Tre­loar. Pro­gres­sive Paul Dil­lon emerged with a plu­ral­i­ty lead for Spokane City Coun­cil Dis­trict #2, Posi­tion #1 on Elec­tion Night. He’s grown his sup­port since then, going from 41.01% to 42.08%. His near­est rival, Katey Ran­dall Tre­loar, has dipped a lit­tle. She had 33.31%; now she has 32.68%.

Redmond City Council: Positions #7 and #1

• Ris­ing: Ang­ie Nue­va­cam­i­na. Fad­ing: David Car­son. On Elec­tion Night, incum­bent David Car­son, who leans to the right, was win­ning. But today, there was a lead change. Chal­lenger Nue­va­cam­i­na now has a slight edge over Car­son, with 39.96% of the vote to Car­son­’s 39.28%.
• Ris­ing: Osman Salahud­din. Osman­’s dom­i­nant per­for­mance con­tin­ues. On Elec­tion Night, he had two-thirds of the vote. Now he’s up to 68.35%!

King County Council: Districts #4 and #8

• Ris­ing: Jorge L Barón. Fad­ing: Sarah Reyn­eveld. Fron­trun­ner Jorge Barón had a sig­nif­i­cant lead on Elec­tion Night, but he has since widened it, going from a plu­ral­i­ty of 47.81% on Tues­day to a major­i­ty of 50.28% today. He’s the clear favorite in Novem­ber. His fel­low Demo­c­ra­t­ic con­tender Sarah Reyn­eveld, mean­while, has dipped from 30.83% to 28.94%.
• Ris­ing: Tere­sa Mosque­da. Fad­ing: Sofia Aragon. Tere­sa Mosque­da, a cur­rent Seat­tle City Coun­cilmem­ber, seems head­ed for the coun­ty lev­el. She is earn­ing the sup­port of 57.39% of vot­ers, up from 54.75% on Tues­day. Sofia Aragon, the oth­er top two fin­ish­er, has slipped from 39.77% to 37.72%.

It’s mostly quiet in Whatcom and Snohomish Counties

Sno­homish and What­com are the only oth­er coun­ties besides King and What­com with coun­ty lev­el offices on the bal­lot this year, includ­ing for Executive.

There has­n’t been much of a change in the per­cent­ages that can­di­dates have up in Sno­homish Coun­ty. 96,837 bal­lots had been count­ed as of Elec­tion Night; that fig­ure only rose to 134,988 today. There are just 800 bal­lots left to count in Sno­homish, accord­ing to Audi­tor Garth Fel­l’s office.

It’s a sim­i­lar sto­ry in What­com Coun­ty. 40,564 bal­lots had been count­ed as of Elec­tion Night; that fig­ure rose to 56,451 today. There was min­i­mal move­ment in key races on Wednes­day and Thurs­day, with some minor changes in per­cent­ages, but not to the extent seen in places like Seat­tle or Spokane.