With the dust settled and just about all votes counted in the 2009 King County General Election, residents of Issaquah and Sammamish now have a firm idea of the makeup of their city councils for the next two years.

In Sammamish, John James defeated Erica Tiliacos for position No. 1, and will take up the seat currently occupied by Kathy Huckabay, who announced earlier this year she would not seek re-elction.

John Curley defeated Tom Vance for position No. 3. Curley will replace incumbent Lee Fellinge, who decided early on that he would not stand again.

Current Mayor Don Gerend defeated Michael Rutt to hold onto the position No. 5 he has occupied since the city was incorporated in 1999.

Tom Odell unseated 10 year councillor Jack Barry for position No. 7.

As of Wednesday, Nov. 11, the ballots of 12,703 Sammamish residents had been counted. This is 48 percent of registered voters in the city.

All open positions on the council were contested by two candidates.

King County Elections officials said last week they estimated about 55 percent of eligible voters in the county, but outside of Seattle, took part in this election.

In Issaquah, 7,854 ballots were received, 48.03 percent of registered voters.

Residents there considered a ballot where three of the five positions up for re-election were uncontested, two by the incumbents and one by a first time candidate. Current Mayor Ava Frisinger, and Position No. 1 candidate Mark D. Mullet ran uncontested. Mullet will replace incumbent John Rittenhouse. Position No. 3 incumbent Eileen Barber ran uncontested.

For Position No. 5, incumbent Maureen McCarry defeated Joan Probala.

In a race involving two new candidates, Tola Marts defeated Nathan T. Perea for position No. 7, left vacant by David Kappler.

Other races

In the election for Issaquah School’s District Director of District 2, Marnie Maraldo defeated Wright Noel.

Incumbent Chad Magendanz ran uncontested for Director of District No. 4.

A little more than 47 percent of the 56,804 registered voters who reside in the Issaquah School District voted.

In the Lake Washington School District, Nancy Phillips Bernard, running uncontested, was re-elected to the District 3 Director position.

Doug Eglington, also running uncontested, will retain his seat as District 4 Director of the Lake Washington School District, with 78.02 percent of the votes. Although Julie Wright’s name was on the ballot for this position, and she received 21.46 percent of the votes, Wright withdrew from the race for personal reasons and said she would not accept the position if elected.

Forty-eight percent of the 99,105 registered voters in the Lake Washington School District cast their ballots.

At the county level, as of the Nov. 10 results, Dow Constantine had 58.88 percent of the votes in the King County Executive race, while Susan Hutchison had 40.93.

At the state level, Initiative 1033, a Tim Eyman initiative that puts limits on revenues for state and local governments, received 31.48 percent yes votes and got 68.52 percent no votes.

For Referendum 71, which expands domestic partnership rights to gays, lesbians and senior citizens, 67.92 percent of the voters have approved the measure and 32.08 percent have rejected it.

Between 48 and 50 percent of ballots from all registered voters in the various races had been counted as of Nov. 11.