Durkan Takes Strong Early Lead in Seattle Mayor Race

Durkan Takes Strong Early Lead in Seattle Mayor Race Durkan Takes Strong Early Lead in Seattle Mayor Race Former U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan took a strong early lead Tuesday night in a Seattle race for mayor that will give the booming liberal city its first female mayor since the 1920s. Ninety-one years after Seattle elected Bertha Knight Landes as mayor, early returns were showing Durkan had captured more than a 20-point lead with nearly 61 percent of the first votes tallied in the all mail election. Urban planner Cary Moon had tallied just over 39 percent of the vote.