Anti-Corporate Landslide in North Yakima
Voters reject the power company's influence in a record-breaking municipal turnout.
The recent election in North Yakima was a veritable landslide for the People's ticket, which opposed the Yakima Light and Power company and declared for a cleaner administration. The majority of the winning candidates ranged from 80 to 100 votes. Of the 1008 registered voters, 549 exercised their right of franchise, marking the largest vote ever polled in the city at a municipal election.
“So badly were the citizens' nominees snowed under that there seem to be no breathing room for them.”
Public pushback against utility companies in Washington is a recurring civic theme. This early 20th-century election highlights the tension between municipal control and private infrastructure monopolies.
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