{"id":70304,"date":"2024-08-06T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stearns-and-cooke-take-early-leads-in-the-47th-legislative-district-primary\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T05:00:00","slug":"stearns-and-cooke-take-early-leads-in-the-47th-legislative-district-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/stearns-and-cooke-take-early-leads-in-the-47th-legislative-district-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Stearns and Cooke take early leads in the 47th Legislative District primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the primary contest for the 47th Legislative District State Rep. Position 2 seat, results released shortly after 8:15 p.m. Aug. 6 showed incumbent Chris Stearns, a former Auburn City Councilman, with 8,947 votes, or 55.64% of the total vote.<\/p>\n<p>Of the two Republicans battling it out in the Position 2 primary for the right to advance to the general election, Ted Cooke was garnering 4,432 votes, 27.56% of the total available, to Brian Lott&rsquo;s 2,680 votes, or 16.67% of the total votes available.<\/p>\n<p>In Washington state, the two primary candidates with highest number of votes, regardless of party, advance to the November general election.<\/p>\n<p>In the primary for 47th Legislative District State Rep. Position 1, early results showed Democratic incumbent Debra Entenman with 9,286 votes, 57.7% percent of the total votes available, and Republican Kyle Lyebyedyev picking up 6,766 votes or 42.04%. As they were the only candidates for the position, Entenman and Lyebyedyev automatically advance to the general election, when they will square off against each other.<\/p>\n<p>Election results will be certified Aug. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For position 1, Entenman and Lyebyedyev automatically advance to the general election. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":70305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-70304","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\/70304"}],"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\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70304"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}