Katie Wilson, a Council on American-Islamic Relations endorsed progressive who has accused Israel of “genocide,” pulled even further ahead of incumbent Bruce Harrell on Tuesday, the day after she passed him for the first time in the Seattle mayoral election, as it has taken a week to count ballots.
Wilson had 137,217 votes (50.08%) to Harrell’s 135,871 (49.59%), per state data released on Tuesday evening. Washington state has been dropping new ballot counts around 4 p.m. local time on weekdays.
David Kroman, City Hall reporter for the Seattle Times, wrote that Wilson “is now almost certainly Seattle’s 58th mayor.”
“We spoke just now. ‘We’re going to wait for all of the ballots to be counted, but I think we won this race,’” he wrote.
After ballots dropped on Monday, Wilson pulled ahead for the first time and led by just 91 votes and 0.04 percentage points. After the state released numbers on Friday afternoon, Harrell was ahead with 116,435 votes (50.74%) to Wilson’s 112,135 (48.86%).
Wilson had been chipping away at Harrell’s lead since Election Day, with some experts predicting that she would win.
