Politics & Government

Ann Davison Leads Seattle City Attorney's Race On Election Night

Nicole Thomas-Kennedy faces Ann Davison in a hotly contested race for Seattle City Attorney. Here's how things look on election night.

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Final election tallies are likely to change dramatically as last-minute ballots are verified, accepted and added to the count in the coming days.
Final election tallies are likely to change dramatically as last-minute ballots are verified, accepted and added to the count in the coming days. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

SEATTLE — The Seattle City Attorney's race quickly became one of the city's most high-profile contests this election season, after three-term incumbent Pete Holmes failed to make it out of the August primary.

Abolitionist and public defender Nicole Thomas-Kennedy faces Ann Davison, a lawyer and former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor. Thomas-Kennedy finished the primary on top with more than 36 percent of the vote, ahead of Davison's nearly 33 percent. Since then, the race has drawn considerable media coverage across the nation, highlighting the stark contrast between the two candidates.

Thomas-Kennedy's official campaign platform calls for "ending the criminalization of poverty and disability" including by revamping the city's approach to prosecuting certain misdemeanors and bolstering diversionary programs. Davison's platform highlights crime trends and pledges to restore "civility, livability and respect" to the city, casting her opponent's views as radical and extreme.

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Here are the Election Night results for Seattle City Attorney (as of 8:10 p.m.):

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  • Nicole Thomas-Kennedy: 40.96%
  • Ann Davison: 58.25%

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.

In 2019, some city council races shifted by double digits by the time all ballots were counted.

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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.

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