Effort to recall Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant leads with 53% in Tuesday night vote count

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Seattle Times

An effort to recall Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant led in Tuesday night’s vote count with about 53% supporting her removal from office, as voters in her district took part in a historic election to decide whether the outspoken socialist politician should be ousted or retained.

Additional votes will be counted in the coming days.

The standalone election is the first-ever recall of a council member to reach a ballot in Seattle and was held just over a month after a general election that saw the city’s voters elect a new mayor, city attorney and two at-large council members.

Henry Bridger II, the campaign manager for the Recall Sawant campaign, called Tuesday night’s results “strong and promising” in a phone interview from the campaign’s Capitol Hill headquarters.

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1. Who are the likely voters left to be counted?

I saw this last night

Although Sawant is trailing, she is positioned to possibly survive the recall attempt. She is down 6.2% in tonight’s returns.

Ballots returned later in Seattle traditionally lean left. In 2019, Sawant came back from 8% down on election night to win by almost 4%.

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