Liveblogging Election Night

Its 8pm and this is the first post of TCC's election night's live blog during this important election for transit service in Washington State.

I am writing live from Tacoma's Tempest bar in the Hilltop. The bar is packed with agency folks, political hacks, and elected officials. Anxiety is high but people are in pretty good spirits knowing we ran a very robust campaign.

8:08 pm: To view the election pages directly here are the links.

Pierce Transit: http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/pierce/leftmenu/currentElectionresults/Pages/ElectionResults.aspx?e=20110208

8:10: Votes are in for Pierce Transit. Approve prop one losing by 45%

8:39: In better news (and almost a mirror opposite) Jefferson Transit's measure is passing by 55% http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/jefferson/ElectionResults/Pages/ElectionResults.aspx

Here is the Tacoma vote breakdown. The exurban areas voted no strongly, Puyallup and Gig Harbor we barely failed, and Tacoma passed it!

LD Total Votes Approve Votes Approve % Reject Votes Reject %

2 12,768 4631 36.27% 8137 63.73%

25 24,416 10037 41.11% 14379 58.89%

26 18,037 7885 43.72% 10152 56.28%

27 20,416 11379 55.74% 9037 44.26%

28 20,910 10283 49.18% 10627 50.82%

29 13,810 7005 50.72% 6805 49.28%

31 11,544 4024 34.86% 7520 65.14%

Total 121,901 55,244 45.32% 66,657 54.68%

AM update

Looking at precinct level results, the only precincts south of Highway 512 that supported the measure were the area around PLU and Wal-Mart.