The Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission released the first round of district-by-district voter abstracts today, giving us an interesting (yet still incomplete) look at who put Mike McGinn and Joe Mallahan into the general election.

McGinn, Mallahan, and Greg Nickels each led two of Seattle’s six legislative districts on election night, but the big difference is that the two taken by McGinn had more voters. Worth noting is that Mallahan came in third in half the districts, and McGinn in two, while Nickels only trailed both candidates in a single district. The problem? He got his butt kicked there in the 36th, roughly a thousand votes behind McGinn and Mallahan.

It also breaks down by area. Nickels did well in the southern 11th and 37th, McGinn in the central 36th and 43rd, and Mallahan in the northern 46th and western 34th.

11th LD
Nickels 402
McGinn 340
Mallahan 275

34th LD
Mallahan 2584
Nickels 2549
McGinn 2541

36th LD
McGinn 4369
Mallahan 4256
Nickels 3302

37th LD
Nickels 2631
McGinn 2041
Mallahan 1724

43rd LD
McGinn 4066
Nickels 3451
Mallahan 3207

46th LD
Mallahan 4329
Nickels 3586
McGinn 3534

See all those results and more, including the KC Exec race where Dow Constantine dominated Seattle and got beat handily in the suburbs, here.

12 replies on “Break It Down, Elections Department”

  1. A Mayor should keep the neighborhoods happy if he wants to stay in office. Nickels kept the developers happy. The problem with that is that most of them and their workers do not live or vote in Seattle. The people who do, resent having their interests and needs deprioritized.

  3. @2 – the tunnel makes it very very hard to get downtown from Ballard, actually, beef.

    That’s why most people in Ballard and Magnolia want a surface plus transit or an elevated rebuild. Heck, they’d probably prefer a Surface Plus Transit Plus Monorail option, which would be cheaper than the tunnel.

  4. I realize that. My thinking is that they won;t be able to get past downtown very easily without the tunnel.

    I live south of downtown and think it will be nigh impossible to get north of downtown during normal hours of the day if I have to rely on surface/transit option.

  5. Please Please Please make sure that McGinn and O’Brien both run hard on banning disposable grocery bags and killing the tunnel!

    These are the only two issues that should matter in November.

    Please help them set the tone of the debate now by extracting pledges from both of them to ban all disposable grocery bags and to kill the tunnel!

  6. Most people in Queen Anne aren’t going to Burien and White Center every day. When they do go south of downtown, they go to the airport and Hawaii or Phoenix or Sun Valley. I 5 is adequate for those trips, which only happen about 5-10 times a year.

  7. @6, they may not be going to Burien, but they and all the Ballard and Fremont people sure are going to Bellevue and Factoria where they work. Adding that volume to I-5 is a lose-lose situation.

    (of course, if commuting by transit from Seattle to eastside jobs didn’t suck so much, it would be less of an issue.)

  9. @6 is correct. When I commuted to Issaquah (yes by single occupancy vehicle, even if it got 36 mpg) from Ballard, very few other drivers were going further south than one of the downtown exits.

    Seattle loves McGinn and wants either a straight no frills rebuild of the elevated Viaduct (with HOV/transit lanes) or Surface Plus Transit.

    But not a tunnel. We don’t want that, other than the lazy whiners on Capitol Hill, who seem to want that (BECAUSE THEY DON’T HAVE TO USE IT TO GET AROUND AND THINK SOME MAGIC TOOTH FAIRY WILL PAY FOR IT).

  10. Everybody want the Tunnel because every car you put underground makes more room for a cyclist above ground. And any cost for that tunnel, no matter how much, is clearly justified if it saves just one cyclist’s life by moving the killer SUV that had her name on it underground and out of harms way. Given their way, they’d move all the cars off of the surface street into a network of tunnels just to free up the surface streets for cyclists.

    McGinn and O’Brien must put this (and disposable bags!!!) to a stop!!! How could we ever pay for it? Ever? At all?!?!?!

    We’re way too poor! And we have no senior Senators or Representatives in any position to send us any sort of Federal Funding (even though the Feds seem to be failing miserably at managing to spend the stimulus money Obama has demanded).

  11. @10 – the cost to provide the energy to keep those fans and lights running in the tunnel – and to operate the drills to dig it – far far outweigh the impacts from the VERY SAME VEHICLES running on either the Surface Plus Transit or Elevated Rebuild Viaduct options.

    Plus, quite frankly, we can’t afford it. Period. So stuff your tunnel down your shorts, cause Seattle doesn’t want it.

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