{"id":4597,"date":"2017-08-02T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2017-08-02T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T22:28:13","slug":"second-count-primary-election-returns-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/second-count-primary-election-returns-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Count of Primary Election Returns Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second count of returns for the 2017 Primary Election had little effect on the three Yakima City Council positions being contested when compared to the initial count on election night.\u00a0 Only the top two vote getters in each race move on to the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> General Election.<\/p>\n<p>In Yakima City Council District 2, Pablo Gonzalez built on his election night lead and now has 35.53% of the vote compared to the 34.13% he had after the first count.\u00a0 Jason White has 23.37% (vs. 25.26% after the first count). Maud Scott has 20.60% (vs. 20.14% on election night) and incumbent Councilmember Avina Guti\u00e9rrez has 20.35 % of the vote (vs. 20.14% after the first count).<\/p>\n<p>Keith Effler continues to lead the six contenders in District 4 with 27.33% of the vote (compared to 29.63% on election night.\u00a0 Kay Funk has 24.05 % (compared to 22.36% on election night).\u00a0 Chelsea Mack is next with 19.61% of the vote (compared to 19.60% on election night). Sandra Belzer, who had the fifth most votes on election night, has moved into 4<sup>th<\/sup> place with 11.80% (compared to 10.68% on election night).\u00a0 Tony Sandoval, who had the fourth most votes on election night, has moved into 5<sup>th<\/sup> place with 11.62% (compared to 12.89% on election night). Williams has 5.06% (compared to 4.52% on election night).<\/p>\n<p>In District 6, Brad Hill has built on his election night lead and now has 74.03% of the vote (vs. 73.62% after the first count), and Macaela Razo has 13.94% (vs. 13.80% after the first count).\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 11.92% of the vote (vs. 12.45% after the first count).<\/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 15<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Second-Count-of-2017-Primary-Election-Returns-News-Release.pdf\">Second Count of 2017 Primary Election Returns &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second count of returns for the 2017 Primary Election had little effect on the three Yakima City Council positions being contested when compared to the initial count on election night.\u00a0 Only the top two vote getters in each race move on to the November 7th General Election. In Yakima City Council District 2, Pablo<\/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-4597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597","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=4597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4597\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}