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Democrat Nick Brown leads in Washington attorney general race
Brown’s competitor in the general election, Republican Pete Serrano, took home 43% of the statewide vote after the first ballot counts. First a JAG officer in the Army, Brown later became a prosecutor in the...
Dave Upthegrove leads in WA Commissioner of Public Lands race
Upthegrove led in early results with about 53% of the vote. Jaime Herrera Beutler had about 47%, after Tuesday’s first vote counts. The elected leader of the Department of Natural Resources oversees nearly six million...
Alexis Mercedes Rinck way ahead of Tanya Woo in Seattle Council race
The 2024 Council election’s political divisions fell along familiar lines for Seattle, pitting a progressive Democrat against a more centrist Democrat. Rinck occupied the election’s left lane, campaigning for new progressive taxes to fund...
WA voters want to keep carbon and capital gains taxes
After the first ballots were counted statewide, here’s where the four statewide initiatives stood: Initiative 2117 to repeal the cap-and-invest program: 38% voted Yes to repeal, 62% voted No to keep. Initiative 2109 to...
Kamala Harris wins Washington state, NBC projects
As of 8:30 p.m., Harris had captured nearly 1.5 million votes in Washington to Trump's 975,000. SEATTLE — Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is projected to win Washington state, NBC News has projected. ...