{"id":4582,"date":"2017-08-01T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T03:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:26:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T03:26:13","slug":"first-batch-primary-election-returns-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/first-batch-primary-election-returns-released\/","title":{"rendered":"First Batch of Primary Election Returns Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first returns of the 2017 Primary Election are giving an early indication of which of the 12 candidates for three Yakima City Council positions being contested will advance to the General Election on November 7<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Only the top two vote getters in each race move on to the General Election.<\/p>\n<p>The Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office conducts only one count of ballots on election night and, consequently, issues just one set of returns.\u00a0 The election night count usually represents about 20% of the ballots that have been returned to the Auditor\u2019s office prior to Election Day.\u00a0 Yakima County uses an all-mail-in voting system, so ballots that are postmarked before midnight on August 1<sup>st<\/sup> will still be considered valid for the Primary Election.<\/p>\n<p>In Yakima City Council District 2, Pablo Gonzalez leads with 34.13% of the vote and is followed by Jason White with 25.26%. Incumbent Councilmember Avina Guti\u00e9rrez and Maud Scott both have 20.14 % of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Effler leads the six contenders in District 4 with 29.63% of the vote.\u00a0 Kay Funk has 22.36% of the vote.\u00a0 Chelsea Mack is next with 19.60% of the vote, followed by Tony Sandoval with 12.89%, Sandra Belzer with 10.68%, and Williams with 4.52%.<\/p>\n<p>In District 6, Brad Hill has 73.62%, and Macaela Razo has 13.80% of the vote.\u00a0 Joe Mann&#8217;s name appears on the ballot for District 6, but Mann withdrew from the race.\u00a0 His withdrawl took place too late to have his named removed from the official ballot.\u00a0 Still, Mann has received 12.45% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In Union Gap, Position 7 on the City Council positions is being contested in the Primary Election.\u00a0 In the Position 7 race, Sandy Dailey has received 35.57% of the vote followed by Eddie Perez with 34.11% and Curt Rosenkranz with 29.74%.<\/p>\n<p>Additional ballot counts will be conducted over the next few days.\u00a0 Ballot counts will continue periodically until all of the ballots that were received before the midnight August 1<sup>st<\/sup> deadline have been tabulated.\u00a0 The 2017 Primary Election will be certified on August 15th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2017-Primary-Election-Returns-News-Release-1.pdf\">2017 Primary Election Returns &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first returns of the 2017 Primary Election are giving an early indication of which of the 12 candidates for three Yakima City Council positions being contested will advance to the General Election on November 7th.\u00a0 Only the top two vote getters in each race move on to the General Election. The Yakima County Auditor\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4588,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}