It’s become an extremely tight race between incumbent Leslie Hamada and challenger Donald Cook for the Kent School Board.<\/p>\n
Hamada has a narrow lead of 74 votes after the latest King County Election results posted Thursday, Nov. 9. Hamada has 49.86% (9,717 votes) while Cook has 49.48% (9,643 votes), according to King County Elections. The write-in votes are at 129.<\/p>\n
Results will be updated each weekday by King County Elections and certified on Nov. 28.<\/p>\n
Hamada, in her fourth year on the board, led by 304 votes on Nov. 7 and by 314 votes on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n
School measure tightens<\/strong><\/p>\n Proposition No. 1, the Replacement of Expiring Educational Programs and Operations Levy, is still being voted down but it’s much closer.<\/p>\n The measure has 50.81% (10,958) no votes and 49.19% (10,610) yes votes, a difference of 348 votes. The no votes were at 52.16% on Nov. 7 and 51.85% on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n Proposition No. 2, the Capital Projects and Technology Levy, has slightly changed with 53% (11,272) no votes and 47% (9,994) yes votes. The no votes were at 54.20% on Nov. 7 and 54.01% on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n Both levies require 50% approval by voters.<\/p>\n Kent City Council results<\/strong><\/p>\n Incumbents Marli Larimer and Zandria Michaud will return to the Kent City Council after easy victories while John Boyd kept his comfortable lead over Kelly Wiggans-Crawford for the one open seat on the seven-member council and will replace Les Thomas, who is retiring after 20 years on the council.<\/p>\n Boyd has 57.13% of the vote compared to 42.36% for Wiggans-Crawford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hamada up by 74 votes; one school levy measure much closer as yes votes climb to 49.19% <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":65961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-65960","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\/65960"}],"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=65960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65960"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=65960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}