The city of Issaquah shared low voter turnout with the rest of King County in Tuesday night’s initial primary election results. More than 3,400 Issaquahns had their ballots counted the night of Aug. 4, about 17.35 percent of the city’s nearly 20,000 registered voters — meanwhile the county saw a 17.31 percent ballot return rate overall.
Issaquah has two open council seats that received more than two candidates and consequently went into a primary runoff. In runoffs, the top two candidates to receive votes in the primary move on to the general election in November.
Council Position No. 4, to be exited by Joshua Schaer at the end of the year, saw Bill Ramos and Tim Flood take the top two spots. Ramos collected 1,508 votes, or 44.85 percent of votes overall. Flood took 898 votes and 26.71 percent. Steven Bishop was the next candidate up with 688 votes and 20.46 percent.
Council Position No. 6 saw incumbent Paul Winterstein and challenger Christopher Reh take the top two. Winterstein collected 1,911 votes and 58.71 percent of voter share. Reh took in 1,099 votes and 33.76 percent of voter share.
The city of Sammamish did not have any council seats go into a primary runoff.
Results in the primary election are not final. Updated results will be posted each business day until final results are certified by the Canvassing Board Aug. 18.