{"id":7641,"date":"2019-08-06T20:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T03:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=7641"},"modified":"2019-08-06T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T03:55:53","slug":"first-batch-of-primary-election-returns-released-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/first-batch-of-primary-election-returns-released-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Batch of Primary Election Returns Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first returns of the 2019 Primary Election have given an\nindication of which candidates for four Yakima City Council seats will move on\nto the November 5<sup>th<\/sup> General Election.&nbsp; Only the top two vote getters in each race move\non to the General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office conducts only one count\nof ballots on election night and, consequently, issues just one set of\nreturns.&nbsp; The election night count\nusually represents about 20% of the ballots that have been returned to the\nAuditor\u2019s office prior to Election Day.&nbsp;\nYakima County uses an all-mail-in voting system, so ballots that are\npostmarked before midnight on August 6<sup>th<\/sup> will still be considered\nvalid for the Primary Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the race to replace Dulce Gutierrez in Yakima City\nCouncil District 1, Kenton Gartrell has 46.55% of the vote, Elliana Macias has 42.86%,\nand Matthew Sagan has received 9.61% of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In District 3, Patricia Byers leads all contenders with 45.17%\nof the vote. Thomas Sund stands at 34.73% and Berenice Ponce has received 19.38%.&nbsp; The District 3 seat is currently held by\nCarmen Mendez, who chose not to run for reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The District 5 seat is currently held by Kathy Coffey, who\nalso is not running this time around. Soneya Lund is leading the District 5 field\nwith 37.54% of the vote followed by Liz Hallock with 31.51% and Mark Collins\nwith 30.74%.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Holly Cousens, who is seeking reelection to the Council District 7 seat, leads her two opponents with 68.36% of the primary vote.\u00a0 Sarah Towell has gotten 18.28% of the vote and Tracey Bautista has so far received 12.55%. <\/p>\n\n\n\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 6<sup>th<\/sup> deadline have been tabulated.\u00a0 The 2019 Primary Election will be certified on August 20<sup>th<\/sup>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2019-Primary-Election-Returns-News-Release.pdf\">2019-Primary-Election-Returns-News-Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/2019-Primary-Election-Returns-News-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first returns of the 2019 Primary Election have given an indication of which candidates for four Yakima City Council seats will move on to the November 5th General Election.&nbsp; Only the top two vote getters in each race move on to the General Election. The Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office conducts only one count of<\/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-7641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641","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=7641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7643,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7641\/revisions\/7643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}