The latest count of returns for the 2019 General Election have\nbeen released by the Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office, and the lead in one race\nfor a Yakima City Council seat has changed hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the race to replace Dulce Gutierrez in Yakima City Council\nDistrict 1, Eliana Macias has taken the lead over Kenton Gartrell 50.72% to\n49.14%. After the first count on election\nnight, Gartrell led Macias 60% to 40% and had maintained a similar margin until\ncount results were released last Friday. \nThe Friday count showed Macias trailing Gartrell by just 4 votes. Macias now leads Gartrell by 11 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In District 3, Patricia Byers leads Thomas Sund 58.22% to 41.05%. The District 3 seat is currently held by\nCarmen Mendez, who chose not to run for reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The District 5 seat is currently held by Kathy Coffey, who\nalso is not running this time around. Soneya Lund now has 57.64% of the General\nElection vote. Liz Hallock trails Lund\nwith 41.56% of the vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Holly Cousens, who is seeking reelection to the Council\nDistrict 7 seat, has received 73.81% of the vote. Sarah Towell won the right to challenge\nCousens based on the August Primary Election vote but announced a few weeks ago\nthat she was no longer interested in serving if elected. Towell\u2019s announcement was made after it was\ntoo late to have her name removed from the General Election ballot. Towell has so far received 24.78%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ballot counts will continue periodically until all of the ballots that were received before the midnight November 5th<\/sup> deadline have been tabulated.\u00a0 The 2019 General Election will be certified on November 26th<\/sup>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest count of returns for the 2019 General Election have been released by the Yakima County Auditor\u2019s office, and the lead in one race for a Yakima City Council seat has changed hands. In the race to replace Dulce Gutierrez in Yakima City Council District 1, Eliana Macias has taken the lead over Kenton<\/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-7952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952","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=7952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7954,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7952\/revisions\/7954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}