ELECTION 2026: First round of primary results, with Seattle Public Library levy passing 3%
8/4/2026, 1:36:00 PM
Topics: Elections, Government
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That’s one of the King County ballot drop boxes in West Seattle that we visited in the final hour-plus of voting – lots of last-minute dropoffs.
Now, the first results are out – <a href="https://election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf" target="_blank">here’s the full list</a>; we’re adding breakouts below:
<strong>SEATTLE PROP.
1, LIBRARY LEVY</strong><br />
Yes – 67565 – 71.71%<br />
No – 26656 – 28.29%
<strong>KING COUNTY COUNCIL, DISTRICT 8</strong><br />
Teresa Mosqueda* – 17984 – 62.78%<br />
Nick Duda – 7876 – 27.49%<br />
Mia Jacobson – 2655 – 9.27%
<strong>U.S.
HOUSE REP., DISTRICT 7</strong><br />
Pramila Jayapal* – 83539 – 82.98%<br />
Nirav Sheth – 10824 – 10.75%<br />
Gwen Kirkland – 3440 – 3.42%<br />
David W.
Blomstrom – 2446 – 2.43%
<strong>STATE HOUSE REP, 34TH DISTRICT, POSITION 2</strong><br />
Joe Fitzgibbon* – 14529 – 73.62%<br />
Mary Anito – 4891 – 24.78%
The next round of results will be released tomorrowafternoon.
Speakers
9speakers36%attributed speech104writer words
Selected voice
0%flagged-word coverageGwen Kirkland
7 attributed words12% of attributed speech50% writer coverage
Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.
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