Far-left Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant was in danger of being ousted Wednesday as results continued to be tabulated from Tuesday’s recall election. As of 4 p.m. PT Wednesday, more than ...

Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant speaking during an International Women’s Day rally in Seattle on March 8, 2017. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP via Getty Images) By signing up, you ...

Sawant, a 48-year-old economics professor, is the longest-tenured council member in Seattle. In this June 12, 2018, file photo, Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant speaks at City Hall in Seattle.

SEATTLE — Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant claimed an "apparent victory" Friday after she gained a narrow lead in the election on whether to recall her. Another 87 ballots were counted Friday ...

Sawant is proudly on the left as a leading member of a Trotskyist political party called Socialist Alternative, which sees her role in Seattle city politics as part of a much larger revolutionary ...

Ballots for a Dec. 7 recall election will start arriving in District 3 mailboxes this week, asking whether voters should remove Sawant from the council seat she has held since 2014.

In an election deciding whether Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant should be recalled from office, "yes" led with 53% in Tuesday night's vote count.

Kshama Sawant adeptly channeled the economic clashes and political rising tides of the 2010s. But it was always more story than substance, and at some point people stopped reading.

Editorials Sawant’s criticism of SPD response is just too much Oct. 26, 2022 at 2:18 pm Updated Oct. 27, 2022 at 1:26 pm By The Seattle Times editorial board ...

Sawant campaigns behind this rhetorical smokescreen on a flood of out-of-town money. Of $953,173 Sawant’s campaign had raised by Dec. 1, 54.3% came from outside Seattle.

A Seattle City Council meeting erupts in chaos after Kshama Sawant's resolution on a Gaza cease-fire fails on Nov. 7, 2023. Warning: This video contains offensive language.

SEATTLE — Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant announced in an op-ed for The Stranger on Thursday that she will not seek reelection and outlined her plans to launch a national labor movement ...