Primary election results are finalized today

Final results for the Aug. 1 primary are in:

For the City of Redmond, Steve Fields took the majority of votes for position 2 on the city council with 42 percent, and Byron Shutz took 35 percent of the vote. They will square off in the November election. Osama Hamdan finished with 23 percent.

For position 6, Jeralee Anderson and Jason Antonelli will move on to the next round, with 59 percent and 27 percent of the vote, respectively. They beat out Roy Captain (13 percent) for a position on the November ballot.

For the Lake Washington School District Director District No. 3 seat, Cassandra Sage and Anita Damjanovic received 53 percent and 31 percent of the vote, securing their positions, while Christian Cahua received the least votes at 15 percent.

At the county level, a sales tax called Proposition No. 1, which would have raised the tax county-wide by one-tenth of one percent for seven years, was rejected by 50.9 percent.

In the Washington state House of Representatives election for the 48th District, Democrat Vandana Slatter (77 percent) will be facing off against Ciaran Dougherty (22 percent) in November. While there were only two candidates, they appeared on the August ballot.

For the 48th District Senate seat, Incumbent Patty Kuderer, Democrat, passed the primary with 61 percent of the vote, as did Michelle Darnell, Libertarian, with 23 percent of votes. Richard Knierim received only 15 percent and is now disqualified.

Finally, in the heated 45th District Senate seat, Republican Jinyoung Lee Englund and Democrat Manka Dhingra beat out the non-partisan Parker Harris for a place in the November election.

Dhingra received a clear majority of votes, at 51 percent, while Englund received 41 percent. Harris received 7 percent.

The position is hotly contested, and the winner of the district could tip the balance of power in the state Senate.

Currently the Senate is equally split between Republicans and Democrats, with one independent Democrat who frequently votes with Republicans.