{"id":4655,"date":"2017-08-15T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=4655"},"modified":"2017-08-15T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:44:28","slug":"2017-primary-election-returns-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/2017-primary-election-returns-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 Primary Election Returns Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima County Auditor&#8217;s Office has certified the results of the 2017 Primary Election, meaning the final count of returns has been completed and the results are now official.\u00a0 The top two vote getters in each race now move on to the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> General Election.<\/p>\n<p>Three seats on the Yakima City Council are up for election during this year&#8217;s General Election.<\/p>\n<p>In Yakima City Council District 2, Pablo Gonzalez finished with 35.18% of the vote and Jason White compiled 23.37% of the Primary Election vote to advance to the General Election.\u00a0 Avina Guti\u00e9rrez received 20.72% of the vote and Maud Scott garnered 20.48%.<\/p>\n<p>In Yakima City Council District 4, Keith Effler (26.88%) and Kay Funk (24.04%) will meet in the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> General Election.\u00a0 Chelsea Mack received 19.87% of the vote, Tony Sandoval got 12.19%, Sandra Belzer finished with 11.35%, and Williams compiled at total of 5.09% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>In Yakima City Council District 6, Brad Hill and Macaela Razo move on to the General Election.\u00a0 Hill finished with 73.32% of the vote compared to Razo&#8217;s 14.54%.\u00a0 Joe Mann received 12.04% of the vote, though he had withdrawn from the District 6 race.\u00a0 Mann withdrew after the deadline to have his name removed from the Primary Election ballot had passed.<\/p>\n<p>Ballots for the November 7<sup>th<\/sup> General Election will begin to be sent to registered voters on October 20<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 To be eligible to be counted, General Election ballots must be postmarked no later than November 7<sup>th<\/sup> or be placed in any of the five ballot drop boxes located in Yakima County no later than 8:00 pm on election day.\u00a0 Click on the following link to see the locations of the ballot drop boxes in Yakima County &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yakimacounty.us\/1136\/Ballot-return-and-accessible-voting-loca\">http:\/\/www.yakimacounty.us\/1136\/Ballot-return-and-accessible-voting-loca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Yakima County Auditor&#8217;s Office will certify the 2017 General Election on Tuesday, November 28<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2017-Primary-Election-Returns-Certified-News-Release.pdf\">2017 Primary Election Returns Certified &#8211; News Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yakima County Auditor&#8217;s Office has certified the results of the 2017 Primary Election, meaning the final count of returns has been completed and the results are now official.\u00a0 The top two vote getters in each race now move on to the November 7th General Election. Three seats on the Yakima City Council are up<\/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-4655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655","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=4655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4655\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}