Ballot measure · Washington State
City of Bothell Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025
City of Bothell Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025 was on the 2025 ballot in King County, Washington. It passed with 69.1% voting yes, on 12,610 votes cast.
- 2025
- King County
- City Measure
- Proposition 1
- Passed
Source WA Secretary of State official election results · as of 2026-08-07
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The result
12,610
votes cast on this measure
Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-08-07
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What it costs you
We cannot calculate what this measure costs a household. That figure needs the levy rate per thousand dollars of assessed value, and the result export does not carry it — it records how people voted, not what they were voting on. We will not estimate it: a wrong number on a household tax bill is worse than no number. The rate is published in the county assessor’s levy certification and in the voters’ pamphlet for the election.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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The case for and against
Printed in the county voters’ pamphlet and mailed to every voter in the jurisdiction. Written by committees the jurisdiction appointed, and reproduced here exactly as they wrote them.
Statement in favor
Written by Ryan Ellis, Jenne Alderks, Jeanne Zornes prosafestreetscommittee@gmail.com
Since voters approved the Safe Streets and Sidewalks levy in 2016, the residents of Bothell have benefited from sidewalk and roadway improvements throughout the city–newly built sidewalks, safety beacons and pedestrian flags at crossings, pavement repairs and filled potholes. Elementary, middle school, and high school students throughout Bothell now have safer routes to school. The levy also helped secure an additional $13 million in state funding, thanks to voters prioritizing road safety. Despite this progress, there are over 2,000 projects identified that still lack funding, 10% of roads in Bothell are rated between very poor to fair and residents continue to raise safety concerns about road quality and areas where sidewalks are needed. Renewing the levy through Proposition 1 will pay for safety improvements near parks, transit stops and other public services as well as at risky intersections, and also improve pavement quality in areas where it is needed throughout the city. Residents continue to rank safety and mobility improvements as top priorities. Voting to approve Proposition 1 takes residents’ concerns seriously by prioritizing street maintenance and safety improvements for students, pedestrians, bicyclists, transit riders and drivers. Support Safe Streets and Sidewalks in Bothell. Vote to Approve Proposition 1.
Statement in opposition
There is no statement against this measure. Nobody in the jurisdiction came forward to serve on the committee that would have written one.
Neither statement is fact-checked, by the county or by us. King County Elections prints these as the committees submit them and does not correct punctuation, grammar, or accuracy. They are arguments, not findings. We reproduce them because they are what voters were sent, and we take no position on the claims in either one.
Last checked 2026-08-07
Source King County voters’ pamphlet · as of 2026-08-07 · page 101 of the pamphlet
The pamphlet as published · archived copy, which is what we read
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Who is funding each side
Political committees registered with the Public Disclosure Commission that named this proposition number when they formed.
No committee named this proposition number. We searched PDC committee filings for proposition 1 in 2025 and found none. That can mean no committee formed, or that one formed without naming the number — the filings do not distinguish the two.
Last checked 2026-08-07
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What this county has asked before
Other city measures put to King County voters. Matched on county and measure kind — the results export carries no jurisdiction key, so these are comparable measures rather than provably the same body asking again.
Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-08-07 · 8 of 8 passed
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What this page will not compute
Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.
- What it costs a household
- Requires the levy rate per thousand of assessed value, which the results export does not carry. Stated above rather than estimated.
- Whether the money decided it
- We can show what each side raised and what the vote was. Connecting the two would be an inference about cause from two numbers, and campaign spending is not the only thing that moves a local levy.
- Whether this is the same body asking again
- Earlier measures are matched on county and kind, not on jurisdiction — the export has no jurisdiction key. A school district and its neighbour both appear as school measures in the same county.
- What the measure would have done
- The ballot title and the full text are not loaded. We hold the result, not the proposal.
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Common questions
- Did City of Bothell Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025 pass?
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Yes, it passed. 69.1% voted yes on 12,610 votes cast.
- Which Proposition 1 is this?
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Proposition 1 on the 2025 ballot in King County, Washington. Several different measures can carry the same number on one county ballot, so the year, the county and the body asking are all needed to identify one.
- Where do these results come from?
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The Washington Secretary of State’s certified election results. We publish the certified canvass, not election-night returns.
- Why is there no argument for or against here?
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Washington publishes committee-written for and against statements for most local measures. We have not ingested them. Showing one side without the other would be worse than showing neither.
Cite this page
This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.
“City of Bothell Proposition No. 1 — King County 2025,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-08. https://washingtonindependents.org/measure/2025-king-prop-1-city-of-bothell-proposition-no-1/
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Where this page comes from
Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.
- WA Secretary of State certified election results
- The vote totals, the yes share and the outcome. Certified canvass, not election-night returns.
- Public Disclosure Commission committee registrations
- Committees formed for or against the measure, matched by the proposition number they registered. Committees that did not name a number are not linked here.
- Not loaded
- Ballot title and full text, the voters’ pamphlet for and against statements, and the levy rate. Each is named where the page would otherwise use it.