{"id":59349,"date":"2022-08-03T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/olow-holds-narrow-lead-over-knowles-in-47th-district-house-showdown\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T15:39:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:39:43","slug":"olow-holds-narrow-lead-over-knowles-in-47th-district-house-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/olow-holds-narrow-lead-over-knowles-in-47th-district-house-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Olow holds narrow lead over Knowles in 47th District House showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Updated on Aug. 8<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>It remains a tight race between Democrat Shukri Olow and Republican Barry Knowles to advance along with Democrat Chris Stearns for the 47th Legislative District House Position 2 seat.<\/p>\n<p>Stearns an Auburn City Council member, won the Aug. 2 primary to advance to the Nov. 8 general election but it&rsquo;s still too close to call between Olow and Knowles. The two candidates with the most votes advance to November.<\/p>\n<p>Olow has 19.57% (5,843 votes) and Knowles has 17.47% (5,215 votes), a difference of only 140 votes, according to results released Aug. 8 by King County Elections.<\/p>\n<p>Stearns has 33.43% (9,980 votes) to clinch a spot on the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans Ted Cooke at 15.17% (4,529 votes) and Carmen Goers at 14.28% (4,262 votes) remain several hundred votes behind Olow and Knowles.<\/p>\n<p>King County Elections will release results on weekdays until certifying the results on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One will advance from primary to take on Chris Stearns on Nov. 8 ballot <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":59350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-59349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59349"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=59349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}