Seattle voter turnout at 30 percent (if you round up)

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Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow Jan 12, 2018

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Seattle voter turnout at 30 percent (if you round up)</h1>
                <h2><p>Although voter turnout in Seattle is anything but high, it looks like it will break the 30 percent threshold. As of Wednesday night, 124,238 of 414,340 registered Seattle voters had returned their ballots. That's 29.9 percent of the electorate. According to King County Elections Communications</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/ashli-blow/">Ashli Blow</a></p> 
              <p><time datetime="2025-02-04T05:00:00-08:00">Jan 12, 2018</time></p>
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            <p>Although voter turnout in Seattle is anything but high, it looks like it will break the 30 percent threshold. As of Wednesday night, 124,238 of 414,340 registered Seattle voters had returned their ballots. That's 29.9 percent of the electorate. According to King County Elections Communications Manager Kim van Ekstrom, 3,000 ballots came in the mail Thursday. That should be enough to push the total turnout to 30 percent -- worse than the 34 percent in 2013, better than the 25 percent in 2007.</p><p>The small number of ballots received today is bad news if your name is Jean Godden. The Councilmember trails Michael Maddux by 269 votes. Her only hope was a surge from late arriving ballots. It doesn't appear she will get that surge.</p>
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Although voter turnout in Seattle is anything but high, it looks like it will break the 30 percent threshold. As of Wednesday night, 124,238 of 414,340 registered Seattle voters had returned their ballots. That's 29.9 percent of the electorate. According to King County Elections Communications Manager Kim van Ekstrom, 3,000 ballots came in the mail Thursday. That should be enough to push the total turnout to 30 percent -- worse than the 34 percent in 2013, better than the 25 percent in 2007.

The small number of ballots received today is bad news if your name is Jean Godden. The Councilmember trails Michael Maddux by 269 votes. Her only hope was a surge from late arriving ballots. It doesn't appear she will get that surge.

By Ashli Blow

Ashli Blow is a Seattle-based freelance writer who talks with people — in places from urban watersheds to remote wildernesses — about the environment around them. She’s been working in journal