"Vote breakdown: Mallahan shows strength in N. Seattle"

Chris Grygiel, seattlepi.com:

Elections officials have released preliminary vote breakdowns by legislative district from Tuesday's primary election.

In the very close Seattle mayoral race environmentalist Michael McGinn won two districts in the city, businessman Joe Mallahan won two and Mayor Greg Nickels won two.

McGinn and Mallahan advanced to the November general election. Nickels finished third.

The district-by-district results are fairly close, especially in the McGinn-Mallahan match up.

McGinn won the 36th district (Queen Anne and Ballard), and the 43rd District (Capitol Hill, the U District and Wallingford). Mallahan won in the 34th District (West Seattle) and the 46th District (North Seattle).

Nickels won the the 37th District (Southeast Seattle) and the city's smallest legislative district in terms of registered voters, the 11th, which covers parts of South Seattle and Beacon Hill).

The closest race was in the 34th District, where Nickels lives and whose voters will arguably be most impacted by one of the biggest issues in the race: replacement of the Alaskan Way Viaduct. In West Seattle, Mallahan recorded 2,585 votes, Nickels 2,549 and McGinn 2,541.

McGinn bested Mallahan by more than 800 votes in the 43rd District, arguably the city's most liberal.

Mallahan topped McGinn almost 800 votes in the 46th District.