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2025 Seattle election: Live updates on turnout, early results in key races

It’s usually tough to tease out clear and resounding voter messages in off-year, hyperlocal elections.

Not so much this time.

Up and down the ballot, voters Tuesday were mostly going for whichever candidate seemed the farthest away on the political spectrum from you-know-you.

Donald Trump is such a colossus in American politics, in the news and on the voters’ minds, that his noisy presence seemed to echo down Tuesday’s ballots, all the way to a little-noticed, nonpartisan city council race in Bellevue.

But let’s start with the races at the top. There were special contests this year for nine state legislative seats. Republicans and business groups spent $2 million on ads tr

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