King County Executive, County Council: Election Night Results

KING COUNTY — The polls have closed and the first results are rolling in for dozens of races across King County, including contests for King County Executive and five seats on the Metropolitan King County Council.

In the executive's race, incumbent Dow Constantine is seeking a fourth term at the helm of King County. He faces his first real challenge in 12 years from state Sen. Joe Nguyen. During the August primary, Constantine secured nearly 52 percent of the vote to Nguyen's 32.6 percent.

For the county council, the District 3 race garnered plenty of attention this election cycle, after longtime Republican incumbent Kathy Lambert's campaign sent a mailer that was widely decried as racist, leading to her recent removal from leadership roles. There were already signs of trouble in the primary, where Lambert picked up just 40 percent of the vote against a combined 59 percent among her two Democratic challengers.

She faces Sarah Perry, who trailed Lambert by just 4 points in the primary.

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Here are the Election Night results for a few of the key King County races (expected by 8:15 p.m.):

King County Executive

• Dow Constantine: 57.31%
• Joe Nguyen: 41.55%

Metropolitan King County Council

District No. 1

• Sally Caverzan: 16.91%
• Rod Dembowski: 82.38%

District No. 3

• Kathy Lambert: 44.50%
• Sarah Perry: 55.12%

District No. 5

• Shukri Olow: 30.52%
• Dave Upthegrove: 68.24%

District No. 7

• Pete von Reichbauer: 68.43%
• Dominique Torgerson: 30.59%

District No. 9

• Reagan Dunn: 63.61%
• Kim-Khanh Van: 36.06%

Election night results offer just a first glimpse of the final outcome, and tallies are likely to change significantly as later ballots are verified and counted in the coming days. By Tuesday morning, just 26 percent of King County voters had returned their ballots, out of the 46 percent projected to participate in this year's general election. Ballots dropped off on Election Day are not reflected in the earliest round of the results.

King County Elections updates its results once per day until each ballot is counted. The next ballot drop will arrive by 4 p.m. Wednesday.