It will be a showdown between incumbent Leslie Hamada and challenger Donald Cook for a Kent School Board position on the Nov. 7 general election ballot.<\/p>\n
Hamada had the most votes in the Aug. 1 primary while Cook took second among four candidates. The two candidates with the most votes advance to the general election.<\/p>\n
With most ballots counted as of Aug. 8, Hamada had 48.14% (10,105 votes), Cook 23.91% (5,018 votes), Stephanie Lawson 19.23% (4,037 votes) and Lizz Morgan 7.97% (1,672 votes), according to King County Election results.<\/p>\n
King County Elections will certify the election Aug. 15.<\/p>\n
Lawson and Morgan have endorsed Cook.<\/p>\n
Voters elected Hamada to the District 3 seat in November 2019 when she ran unopposed. Her four-year term ends in November 2023.<\/p>\n
Other races<\/strong><\/p>\n The only other school board race on the Nov. 7 ballot will be between Meghin Margel and Andy Carter for Position No. 2.<\/p>\n The board appointed Margel to the seat in September 2022 after Michele Bettinger resigned. Carter was a finalist for the appointment.<\/p>\n Andy Song also will be on the ballot as the only candidate for Position No. 1. Joe Bento decided not to seek reelection and nobody else filed for the seat.<\/p>\n Only races with more than two candidates were on the primary ballot.<\/p>\n Voters elected board members Tim Clark and Awale Farah to four-year terms in November 2021. Clark defeated Sara Franklin and Farah beat Brad Kenning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Both advance to Nov. 7 general election with top 2 spots in Aug. 1 primary <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":63736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-63735","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\/63735"}],"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=63735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63735"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=63735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}