It will be a Nov. 7 general ballot Kent City Council race between John Boyd and Kelly Wiggans-Crawford to replace Les Thomas.<\/p>\n
Boyd and Wiggans-Crawford received the most votes among five candidates on the Aug. 1 primary ballot to advance to the general election.<\/p>\n
Boyd has 37.58% (4,904 votes) and Wiggans-Crawford 22.06% (2,878 votes) with most ballots counted as of Aug. 8, according to King County Elections. Lee ranks third with 21.11% (2,754 votes) followed by Cody T. Clark 9.75% (1,272 votes) and Michael Ferguson 9.04% (1,180 votes).<\/p>\n
“At this point in the election, we’re pretty much done counting returned ballots,” said Halei Watkins, King County Elections communications manager, in an Aug. 8 email. “It looks like the City of Kent has 92 voters with outstanding signature challenges. Those voters will receive a letter from us (plus phone call and email, if we have that info on file) to ask them to complete and return a simple form to have their ballot counted.”<\/p>\n
Those forms must be returned to King County Elections by 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 14.<\/p>\n
Boyd is a retired lead quality inspector from Boeing and Wiggans-Crawford is a certified paralegal. Thomas didn’t run for reelection as he completes his 20th year on the council.<\/p>\n
Other races<\/strong><\/p>\n Three other Kent City Council positions will be on the Nov. 7 ballot.<\/p>\n Jessie Ramsey is challenging incumbent Marli Larimer for Position No. 1. Darryl Jones is taking on incumbent Zandria Michaud for Position No. 7. Incumbent Bill Boyce is running unopposed.<\/p>\n Only races with more than two candidates appeared on the primary ballot.<\/p>\n Voters elected Councilmembers Toni Troutner, Brenda Fincher and Satwinder Kaur to four-year terms in November 2021. Troutner defeated Cliff Cawthon, Fincher beat Larry Hussey and Kaur ran unopposed.<\/p>\n Boyce and Kaur ran for the Legislative District 47 Senate seat in 2022 won by Claudia Kauffman, D-Kent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Will face off in Nov.7 general election after placing first and second in Aug. 1 primary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63732","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\/63732"}],"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=63732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63732"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}