Reproductive rights advocate Sarah Dixit has overtaken incumbent Spokane City Councilman Jonathan Bingle in an incredibly tight race that likely will spill over into the coming week.
Incumbent mayors in all but two small Spokane County towns will serve another term in office, according to the latest tally from the Spokane County Elections Office.
Spokane’s progressives are within striking distance of a clean sweep of the municipal election for the first time since 2017 as conservative Councilman Jonathan Bingle’s narrow lead over reproductive rights advocate Sarah Dixit continues to evaporate.
On Election Day, a long line of cars full of people waiting to slip their ballots into the library’s white ballot box stretched from the South Hill Library through the parking lot and onto the street, blocking the library entrance.
As county elections officials tabulated thousands more ballots Wednesday, the margins in a handful of close races have budged by a hair, but in only one case did the results flip.
Residents voted the mayors of Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls out of office in Tuesday’s election, though many other North Idaho officials retained their seats.
Spokane voters in early returns Tuesday mirrored national trends in their support for left-leaning politics and demonstrated an appetite for more taxes in spite of economic uncertainty.
The political status quo in Spokane appears unchanged after election night, with progressives keeping their supermajority for another two years while conservatives were holding their ground.
Voters approved Spokane’s $240 million parks levy, and Spokane Public Schools’ closely linked $200 million bond had a slim lead in initial election results Tuesday.
California voters sent a strong anti-Donald Trump message on Tuesday by passing Proposition 50, another big win for Democrats during the 2025 off-year election that helps the party in the nationwide redistricting frenzy that will help decide who controls the U.S. House in the final two years of the Republican president’s second term.
