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The 2023 Seattle City Council election was held on November 7, 2023, following a primary election on August 1. [1] The seven district-based seats of the nine-member Seattle City Council are up for election; the districts were modified based on the results of the 2020 census. [2] Four incumbent members of the city council did not seek reelection ...
Endorsement date Ref. The Boston Globe: Massachusetts April 25, 2023 [1] Las Vegas Sun: Nevada January 28, 2024 [2] The Seattle Times: Washington February 2, 2024 [3] Los Angeles Sentinel: California February 8, 2024 [4] The Austin Chronicle: Texas February 16, 2024 [5] Santa Barbara Independent: California February 16, 2024 [6] San Antonio ...
Sara E. Nelson is an American businesswoman and politician serving as a Seattle City Council member from Position 9. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated Nikkita Oliver in the 2021 election. On January 2, 2024, the city council voted unanimously to appoint her City Council President. Nelson was endorsed by The Seattle Times.
[22] [23] Both advanced to the general election. Scott and Pederson disagreed on most issues, with Scott opposing the removal of homeless encampments and supporting greater density in neighborhoods. [23] He received endorsements from alternative weekly The Stranger and local chapters of the Sierra Club and Our Revolution. In the November ...
[9] [21] Burgess received the endorsement of The Seattle Times, along with several state and local politicians, and ultimately won in the election with 64 percent of votes. [9] [22] The race for Position 8 was the most expensive in city council history, [9] [23] with Burgess raising $64,000 of his $293,000 using his own money. [24]
The 2022 Washington Secretary of State special election was held on November 8, 2022. Incumbent Kim Wyman , a Republican , resigned from the office on November 19, 2021, to become the senior election security lead for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration 's Department of Homeland Security . [ 1 ]
While local elections are officially nonpartisan, most of the city's elected officials are known to be Democrats. In 2015, Seattle voters approved the nation's first Democracy Vouchers Program, [3] in which every city resident receives 4 $25 vouchers to donate to local candidates. The program has diversified the donor pool, allowed more ...
In the August primary election, Mosqueda came in first with 59% of the vote, and structural engineer Kenneth Wilson also advancing to the general with 16% of the vote. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Mosqueda focused her campaign on addressing economic inequalities in Seattle, while Wilson focused on fixing major infrastructure like bridges.