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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 38m

Katie Wilson gained 8.89% between Election Night and the final results in the primary.

To feel good about her overcoming the general gap and having a similar performance, you'd want her to be about 4.5% behind or better after today's drop. (She actually LOST ground on the Thursday drop in August.)

Katie Wilson's lead by day in the 2025 Seattle mayoral election

Election Night: 1.48% in the primary, -7.18% in the general
Wednesday: 4.89% in the primary
Thursday: 4.30% in the primary
Friday: 9.20% in the primary
Final: 10.37% in the primary

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Kyle Foreman @fork.bsky.social · 8h

Which is another way of saying that the bulk of Wilson's advantage came in later in the vote tabulating process. On election night only 45% of her eventual votes were counted, compared to 54% of Harrell's. That gap stayed pretty large until about the 4th day of counting (Friday). [3/n]

A line chart showing the proportion of each Seattle Mayoral candidate's total votes that had been counted on each day during the primary election

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, considering she gained 9 between primary e-night and the final results.

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Jeff @jefft.bsky.social · 10h

Did you mean to say she outgained him by 17k between primary night and final primary tally? Seems to match the graph.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10h

*gained 17,221 votes more than Harrell between the primary Election Night and final results

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10h

Yes, correct. Whoops. Bedtime for me.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10h

UPDATE: the incumbent school board, who voted against the ban on trans girls and is now facing the mother of the complaining student, is leading in results so far.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 2d

I'd totally missed this:

In Tumwater, WA, a HS student complained about a trans basketball player. Then, the local school board passed a resolution to ban trans girls from girl sports.

Now, the mother of that student is running against the sole school board member to vote against the resolution.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10h

With the caveat that we haven't seen precinct-by-precinct results yet, I would call Katie Wilson the favorite at this point.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10h

Here's a look at the raw numbers in the Seattle mayoral contest, with 2021 for scale. Harrell has lost a lot of ground from his 2021 win.

Wilson gained 17,221 votes more than Harrell between the primary and general. That would be more than enough to eliminate the 8,319 vote gap here.

Vote totals: Primary election night, primary election final, general election night, general election final.

Katie Wilson 44,457 98,562 53,767
Bruce Harrell 43,160 80,043 62,086
Other 8,596 15,624 580
2021 Harrell 33,759 69,612 84,975 155,294
2021 González 25,209 65,750 46,046 109,132
2021 Other 29,344 69,402 465 777

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 14h

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 13h

New York and Seattle might both elect socialist mayors who rent and don’t own cars tonight

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 20h

Saw a bunch of folks using the ballot drop box by the Ballard library on my little lunch break walk. It’s a beautiful day in Seattle to elect a new mayor and ditch our disaster of a council president.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 1d

They're out there, and they're voting.

Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 2d

That’s right

Color of Seattle @colorofseattle.bsky.social · 2d

The color of the sky in Seattle is dark pastel blue #7c97c1

2025-11-02 13:55:01 #7c97c1 dark pastel blue

2025-11-02 13:55:01 #7c97c1 dark pastel blue | [#7c97c1 - 54%] [#526a97 - 20%] [#627ca9 - 14%] [#cbd9e6 - 8%] [#efecdf - 2%] [#aabeda - 1%] [#dfe6e4 - 1%]

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 4d

It is absolutely remarkable that multiple states — including at least one with a Republican governor — are fully backstopping November SNAP payments, but Governor Doge Ferguson again has failed to meet the moment. What a profound disappointment of a first year as Governor.

Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · 5d

Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

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Rep. Shaun Scott 🌹🤝 @organizewithshaun.bsky.social · 5d

Today I'm calling on @governorferguson.bsky.social to declare a state of emergency: the expiration of SNAP benefits for nearly one million Washingtonians will be a disaster for the health of many, and for the economic health of the state. We must join other state governments and act swiftly.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 6d

I used to live in First Hill and it was a genuinely useful transit mode for going to Pioneer Square, the ID, and Cap Hill. Completing the Culture Connector would make it a fantastic option for tourists visiting Pike Place and people living and working in SLU.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 6d

I believe we can make the Seattle Streetcar look more like the video on the left, and run it as a complete line. And it's a much better idea than tearing it all up.

justin taylor 🚄🎵🔋🌈 @nottaylorx.bsky.social · 6d

The difference in the time it takes a streetcar in Amsterdam vs. Toronto to clear an intersection after servicing a nearside stop.

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Push The Needle @pushtheneedle.bsky.social · 7d

Seattle’s RapidRide bus upgrade program is a scheduling and funding nightmare. These projects turn into huge utility upgrading efforts and chasing the federal funds take decades. We would be better off painting the Bus Only lanes now while we wait for design and finding to be complete

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Northwest Progressive Institute @nwprogressive.org · 9d

Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is once again the only Seattle elected official with a positive job performance rating

Likely November 2025 general election voters in Seattle aren't satisfied with the performance of their elected officials, with one exception: Councilmember Alexis Mercedes…

Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck is once again the only Seattle elected official with a positive job performance rating

Likely November 2025 general election voters in Seattle aren't satisfied with the performance of their elected officials, with one exception: Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck, who was elected last year and is the most progressive member of the Council.

www.nwprogressive.org

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 10d

We know people want to ride transit here. Why do we keep building more car capacity?

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 10d

Given the Link light rail's rapid expansion, Seattle now has the fastest transit ridership growth of any major US metro area, beating out the continued recovery of DC

A graph of ridership growth, 2025 vs 2024, in the 10 largest US Metro Areas by Transit Use

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Ryan Packer @typewriteralley.bsky.social · 12d

If Bruce Harrell squeaks out a win in two weeks, I for one will never forget the contempt that he readily showed for wide swaths of the city in service of doing it.

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Katherine Mitchell @katherinemitchell.bsky.social · 21d

Me too!

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