Council Position No. 1 Ken Oberman 11,620 49.19% Jay Arnold 11,940 50.54% Write-in 64 0.27% Council Position No. 3 Shilpa Prem 12,119 51.09% Catie Malik 11,525 48.59% Write-in 77 0.32% Council Position No. 5 Ken MacKenzie 10,457 44.28% Neal Black 13,106 55.50% Write-in 50 0.21% Council Position No. 7 Jon Pascal 12,330 52.15% Kurt Dresner 11,237 47.52% Write-in 78 0.33%

Kurt Dresner still trails incumbent Jon Pascal. But right now it looks like three of the four Cherish Kirkland-aligned "sanity slate" candidates are going to lose.

Another election update: progressive candidates Shilpa Prem and Jay Arnold have TAKEN THE LEAD in their races for the Kirkland City Council after previously being behind. So much for that reactionary anti-growth backlash in Kirkland.

Catie responded to the question about this today and proudly said she stood by it.

She's proud to say that trans girls and women are just "men pretending to be women".

This kind of bigotry isn't what we need on Kirkland City Council.

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Some extra context here, these shifts are much larger than the Biden 2020 -> Harris 2024 shifts.

I think there's more to it than that since Capitol Hill and Central District also saw (smaller) shifts.

A map showing the shift in support from Mosqueda to Rinck. Neighborhoods like West Seattle and Queen Anne shifted towards Rinck compared to Mosqueda while Capital Hill, Central District, and South East Seattle shifted away.

Interesting to see large shifts at the precinct level between Alexis Mercedes Rinck's (2024) and Teresa Mosqueda's (2021) results despite a similar citywide result.