The first round of results are in for Tuesday’s (Aug. 1, 2023) Primary Election, and initial returns are favoring Linda Akey and Rut Perez-Studer for Position No. 2 and Kevin Schilling and Patricia Hudson for Position No. 4.
Position No. 2 incumbent Cydney Moore is in third place – down by 73, with 1,272 votes • 26.11 percent.
The top two vote-getters will move on to the Nov. 7 General Election.
*denotes incumbent
Here are the first round of totals:
City of Burien
Ballots Counted: 5,113
* Registered Voters: 29,455 • 17.31%
City of Burien, Council Position No. 2:
- Brittany Williams: 632 • 12.97%
- Linda Akey: 1,582 • 32.47%
- *Cydney Moore: 1,272 • 26.11%
- Rut Perez-Studer: 1,345 • 27.61 %
City of Burien, Council Position No. 4:
- *Kevin J. Schilling: 2,819 • 58.18%
- Patricia Hudson: 1,461 • 30.15%
- Daniel Reed Martin: 522 • 10.77%
Highline School District No. 401
Ballots Counted: 13,269
Registered Voters: 76,522 • 17.29%
Director District No. 1:
- Michael T. Lewis: 3,815 • 31.43%
- Stephanie Tidholm: 4,378 • 36.07 %
- Loren Dugan: 3,208 • 26.43 %
- Mitchell Khayim: 672 5.54 %
Director District No. 4:
- Carlos M. Ruiz: 3,396 • 28.30%
- Joey Martinez: 2,683 • 22.36%
- Melissa Petrini: 5,833 • 48.61%
Metropolitan King County Council District No. 8
Ballots Counted: 31,059
Registered Voters: 157,582 • 19.63%
Council District No. 8:
- Teresa Mosqueda: 16,016 • 54.75%
- Sofia Aragon: 11,636 • 39.77%
- GoodSpaceGuy: 1,438 ª 4.92%
Port of Seattle
Ballots Counted: 264,780
Registered Voters: 1,377,323 • 19.16%
Commissioner Position No. 5:
- Jesse Tam: 66,412 • 27.58%
- *Fred Felleman: 128,620 • 53.42 %
- Todd Curtis: 44,129 • 18.33 %
City of SeaTac
Ballots Counted: 2,196
Registered Voters: 14,805 • 14.78%
Council Position No. 3:
- Marianne “Ginger” West: 136 • 6.35%
- Elizabeth Greninger: 597 • 27.88%
- *Peter Kwon: 1,394 • 65.11%
King County
Ballots Counted: 264,617
Registered Voters: 1,377,323 • 19.15%
Proposition No. 1 (Veterans, Seniors and Human Services Levy):
- Approved: 179,624 • 69.51 %
- Rejected: 78,775 • 30.49 %
The next round of results will be released by King County Elections on Wednesday, Aug. 2 at 4:30 p.m.
bye bye Cydney and your self-serving self-righteousness.
Great results for Burien. SEIU tried to buy the election and blew about $37,000 of its members’ money on a candidate that came in 4th and one in such a distant 2nd that the general is all but over.
Looks like the newcomer Linda Akey can outraise the incumbent and spend her money more effectively, but I bet Cydney will pull up and be the 2nd candidate in the general. But she has probably topped out at 30% as she has very high negatives.
This all doesn’t bode well for Krystal Marx who is Cydney Moore’s mentor and biggest supporter. If Alex Andrade can do the work Linda Akey has done, she should win easily over Krystal who will probably get the same voters as Cydney Moore.
Good for Burien. Looking ahead, Schilling should be mayor, he runs a good council meeting.
Adding to the great post Fred made, I’d say this… This is also a message to the 33rd Legislative Democrats. You may be the loudest voices on Twitter, but you can’t bully an entire city into your will. The dishonest Stranger article by Sam Mendez probably helped Kevin much more than it hurt him.
It should also be a lesson to King County that their vision of using Burien as an outlet for the problems caused by their failed policies isn’t going to be as easy as it thinks.
They underestimated Burien. They thought we would be easy pickings as an economically disadvantaged city with many ESL residents. Kudos to everyone who stood up for the health of the community.