The second effort to form a new City of Fairwood has failed, as the continuing count of ballots in the all-mail election has resulted in little change in the initial count released election night, Tuesday.

In two other local races, Pam Teal, with 54 percent of the vote, has been elected to the Renton School District Board of Directors position she was appointed to earlier with the resignation of Marcie Maxwell, now a state legislator.

And, Rich Zwicker has retained his seat on the Renton City Council, with 63 percent of the vote

In the races, the percentage separating Teal and Zwicker from their opponents has remained relatively steady. James Grossnickle ran against Teal and Jim Flynn opposed Zwicker.

In the only contested race on the Valley Medical Center Board of Commissioners, challenger Dr. Aaron Heide has widened his lead over incumbent Mike Miller, 52.43 percent to 47.31 percent following Friday’s vote tally. Their race was a virtual dead heat after Tuesday’s results were released.

A last-minute write-in candidacy by Cory Cappelletti was mounted against incumbent hospital commissioner Carolyn Parnell, who is receiving about 96 percent of the vote. The other 4 percent is going to write-in candidates, including, presumably, Cappelletti.

Results released Friday evening showed Fairwood incorporation losing 55 percent to 45 percent, or 4,059 to 3,334 votes. The initial Fairwood results Tuesday night showed incorporation trailing 57 percent to 43 percent.

The county is continuing to receive and count mail-in ballots, but there are not enough ballots left to change the results of the Fairwood, school board or City Council races. For example, as of Friday the county elections office had received 61 percent of the ballots mailed to 14,229 Fairwood voters. Friday’s vote total shows that 53 percent of those votes have been counted.

Countywide, as of Friday evening, 52 percent of the 1,084,591 ballots mailed in the county have been returned. About 79,000 of those returned ballots were on hand to be counted, according to elections officials.

The next decision for Fairwood and its roughly 26,000 people is whether to annex to Renton, a process that could take about two years. Two annexations of the Fairwood area, including one that includes just the commercial core, have been proposed. But those two proposals were put on hold until the issue of incorporation was resolved.

The Washington state Boundary Review Board for King County will now consider those annexations.

The election results are posted at about 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Election results will be certified on Nov. 24.