Katie Wilson Takes 91-Vote Lead in Dramatic Seattle Mayor Race

Katie Wilson now leads incumbent Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell by a razor-thin 91-vote margin after another batch of votes were counted Monday. It would appear Wilson has pulled off a dramatic comeback, after trailing by 11,183 votes in earlier results Wednesday, when Harrell clung to an eight-point lead.

So far, officials have counted 272,041 ballots in Seattle, which is nearly 54% turnout. After Monday’s batch, Election officials report about 13,000 votes remain to be processed in King County — with perhaps half in Seattle.

On election night when about 118,000 ballots were tabulated, Harrell claimed a seven-point lead. Seattle elections have long had a pattern where the early vote leans conservative, while the late vote skews toward progressive. Progressive candidates have closed large margins to pull off late comebacks before, which gave Wilson supporters hope, despite their early disadvantage.

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As it stands Monday, Wilson has won 49.83% of the vote to 49.79% for Harrell, a slim 0.04% advantage, which would be in recount territory. However, Wilson could continue to gain margin in remaining ballots and take the race out of the recount threshold. Wilson won 55.5% of the batch on Monday, slightly improving her trajectory from Friday.

https://www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/katie-wilson-takes-91-vote-lead-in-dramatic-seattle-mayor-race/

Not sure if this should be posted in the local Washington forum but it seems to be similar to a Mamdani kind of an election. I briefly heard about this race on election night but haven't heard much about it until I came across this article.