{"id":71271,"date":"2024-11-05T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/democratic-incumbents-in-lead-for-11th-legislative-district\/"},"modified":"2024-11-05T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T04:47:00","slug":"democratic-incumbents-in-lead-for-11th-legislative-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/democratic-incumbents-in-lead-for-11th-legislative-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic incumbents in lead for 11th Legislative District"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far, the Democratic incumbents are holding their ground in Legislative District 11.<\/p>\n

Early election results for Legislative District 11 show Bob Hasegawa in the lead for State Senator, David Hackney in the lead for State Representative Pos. 1 and Steve Bergquist in the lead for State Representative Pos. 2, according to King County Election results as of 8:05 p.m. on Nov. 5.<\/p>\n

The 11th district includes southern Seattle, Renton, Tukwila and a portion of Kent.<\/p>\n

For State Senate, Democratic incumbent Bob Hasegawa, who is running unopposed, has garnered 95.32% of votes, or about 31,800 votes. Write-ins are at 4.68% of the vote, totalling 1,563. Total votes are currently tallied at 33,363.<\/p>\n

For State Representative Pos. 1, early results show that Democrat David Hackney, who also is running unopposed, has garnered 95.41% of votes, or about 31,235 votes. There are 1,504 write-ins, which currently makes up 4.59% of the vote. Total votes are currently tallied at 33,283.<\/p>\n

Finally, State Representative Pos. 2 Democrat Steve Bergquist has garnered 77.35% of votes, or about 29,554 votes with newcomer Greywolf, who favors the Libertarian Party, coming up behind with 21.42% of the vote, or about 8,183 votes. Position 2 write-ins made up 1.24% of the vote, totalling in 473. Total votes are currently tallied at 38,210.<\/p>\n

VOTER TURNOUT<\/p>\n

In Legislative District 11, voting turnout came out to just over 48.27% with 43,407 ballots counted of the 89,920 registered voters.<\/p>\n

CAMPAIGN FINANCES<\/p>\n

According to the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission, as of Nov. 5, Bob Hasegawa had raised $81,451.16 and spent $112,627.35, David Hackney had raised $129,906.06 and spent $78,961.44, Steve Bergquist had raised $112,917.09 and spent $73,895.54 and Justin Greywolf had raised and spent $0.<\/p>\n

General election results are certified Wednesday, Nov. 27. To see the results, visit kingcounty.gov\/depts\/elections.aspx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Hasegawa, David Hackney and Steve Bergquist have strong leads, with Hasegawa and Hackney running unopposed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":71272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-71271","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\/71271"}],"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\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71271"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=71271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}