August primary elections drew to a close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 1.

King County Elections website indicates 53,905 residents registered to vote and 7,645 ballots were counted.

The top two vote-getters in each race advance to the Nov. 7 general election

Renton City Council Position No. 2

Armondo Pavone received 3,721 votes (52.53 percent). Diane Dobson received 2,837 votes (40.05 percent). Max J. Heller, III received 500 votes (7.06%). There were 26 write ins (0.37 percent).

Renton City Council Position No. 6

Ruth Perez received 3,553 votes (50.56 percent). Jami Smith received 2,179 votes (31.01 percent) Carl Eshelman received 1,265 votes (18 percent). There were 30 write-in votes (0.43 percent).

Proposition No. 1, sales tax for cultural access program

The proposition was rejected. It received 125,970 votes against (55.02 percent), and 102,971 votes for (44.98 percent).

King County Executive

Goodspaceguy received 14,134 votes (6.45 percent). Dow Constantine 74.45 received 163,154 votes (74.45 percent). Bill Hirst received 30,817 votes (14.06 percent). Stan Lippmann received 9,170 votes (4.18 percent). There were 1,876 write-in votes (0.86 percent)