Tuesday is the day. Election Night will bring the first tally and possibly seal the deal for which of the eight candidates will go through to November in the race to replace Kshama Sawant in the District 3 seat on the Seattle City Council.
Your ballot must be postmarked by 8 PM. Better yet, drop it in one of the county’s ballot drop boxes including one on Broadway or the one at the Garfield Community Center by the 8 PM deadline to make your vote count.
The top two vote getters will advance to the November election.
CHS surveyed the eight candidates about their positions on a full spectrum of D3 issues. You can also find their positions on rent control here as Sawant mounts her final big push in her decade in office to establish the control in Seattle.
ELECTION 2023 — CHS COVERAGE
- CHS SURVEY: Why you should vote for ALL THE CANDIDATES in the Seattle City Council District 3 primary
- SHOBHIT AGARWAL: In a crowded field, latest District 3 candidate taking building by building approach
- RY ARMSTRONG: The race for District 3 had to have a Democracy Voucher candidate — Ry Armstrong just might be it
- ANDREW ASHIOFU: As D3 candidate field crowds, Ashiofu hopes unique perspectives on housing, health, and transit will change the race
- ALEX COOLEY: ‘Like, the beauty of democracy’ — Judkins Park and cannabis community leader joins ‘conversation’ for District 3 seat on the Seattle City Council
- BOBBY GOODWIN: Bobby Goodwin, a public defender who wants cops to work harder and the streets of Seattle to be safer, wants your District 3 vote
- JOY HOLLINGSWORTH: With ‘cannabis justice,’ hunger advocacy, and three generations in the Central District, Hollingsworth enters race for District 3 — UPDATE
- EFRAIN HUDNELL: This District 3 candidate wants to use affordable housing to help save Seattle from a ‘death spiral that we’ve seen in cities that have gone boom to bust in a way that only American cities do’
- ALEX HUDSON: With her heart on First Hill, Hudson joins race for District 3 with a neighborhood approach to urbanist policy
- More…
So far, D3 voters are responsible for around 16,000 ballots of the more than 270,000 collected by King County Elections. In 2019, D3 turnout landed at 46% with more than 33,000 ballots cast.
Have a prediction? Let us know who you support — and who you think will go through to November:
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I think Bobby Goodwin is going to have a surprisingly strong showing as the one center-left candidate in the D3 race that acknowledges the reality that addressing the city’s fentanyl-homeless-public safety crisis will require both harm reduction and enforcement. All the other candidates want to continue the status quo magical thinking approach of all carrots and no sticks. The status quo enabling and decriminalization approach is obviously not working. Overdose deaths are soaring. Small businesses are closing. Public spaces are trashed. It is time to change course.
He had a poor showing and deserved it. He was another Egan Orion clown.