Nigel Herbig (Kenmore City Council Position 4, Washington, candidate 2025)
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Nigel Herbig ran for election to the Kenmore City Council Position 4 in Washington. He was on the ballot in the general election on November 4, 2025.[source]
Herbig completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
[1]Biography
Nigel Herbig provided the following biographical information via Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey on September 30, 2025:
- Birth place: Seattle, Washington
- High school: Ingraham High School
- Bachelor's: University of Washington
- Gender: Male
- Incumbent officeholder: Yes
- Campaign slogan: Leadership With Heart
- Campaign website
- Campaign endorsements
- Campaign Facebook
Elections
General election
General election for Kenmore City Council Position 4
Nigel Herbig and Christina Schiefer ran in the general election for Kenmore City Council Position 4 on November 4, 2025.
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Election results
Endorsements
Herbig received the following endorsements. To view a full list of Herbig's endorsements as published by their campaign, click here.
Campaign themes
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Nigel Herbig completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Herbig's responses.
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My wife, Tiffany, and I moved to Kenmore 18 years ago with our baby daughter. We saw the potential and beauty here, and we've never regretted our decision to make Kenmore our home.
I started attending Kenmore City Council meetings after the new City Hall was built. I lived nearby, and wanted to see what my government was doing. I was shocked to learn that the Council wasn't livestreaming its meetings so more residents could know what was being decided about their city. I took it upon myself to begin attending regularly, and started livetweeting the meetings under the Twitter account "@kenmorepolitics". I got a small following of people who wanted to know what was going on but couldn't make it to City Hall on a Monday night.
It became apparent to me that the Council was not representative of most Kenmore residents, and when Deputy Mayor Bob Hensel told me he was retiring and asked me to run for his seat, I took him up on the challenge. I have proudly served on the Kenmore City Council since 2014, and was selected by my Council colleagues to serve as Deputy Mayor from 2018-2021, and as Mayor since 2022.
In my spare time I play disc golf, read, play darts at Kenmore Lanes, and spend time with family and friends.- When I first ran for Council, I ran on basic issues like building sidewalks and making our government more transparent, and I've delivered on those promises.
Since I've joined Council we've built 7+ miles of sidewalks and bike lanes - making our roads safer for all users.
I also got a camera installed in Council Chambers so we could livestream our meetings (the previous Council built a new City Hall, but didn't install a camera). And when we went from Zoom-only meetings back to in-person, I fought to keep the Zoom option alive for the public, because the only good thing I saw from COVID was that it was easier for folks to jump on their laptop rather than get to City Hall on a Monday night. - Part of what makes Kenmore great is our 6 miles of shoreline - along Lake Washington and the Sammamish River. While it may be hard to believe, when I joined Council there was NO city-owned public access to the water. I helped lead the effort to pass our Walkways and Waterways ballot measure, which brought us the beach at Log Boom Park, the new dock on the Sammamish River for folks to launch their kayaks or canoes (or for students to launch their racing shells), and the transformative improvements at ƛ̕ax̌ʷadis (Tl' awh-ah-dees) Park, with its boardwalks, bridges, and amazing access to Swamp Creek and the Sammamish River. The bond measure also built 3 miles of sidewalks along Juanita and 68th - our main N/S road.
- I'm proud to stand with our neighbors in need. I led efforts to protect our mobile home residents, who were under constant threat of the land under their homes being sold out from under them. I also led our efforts to pass meaningful tenant protections, which ensured that our renters would receive adequate notice of rent increases, capped late fees, and allowed folks on fixed income to adjust their rent due date. I'm particularly proud of getting $1m of our COVID-relief dollars set aside to help our neighbors in need. While people were struggling with shutdowns, we got checks out to families in need, and I've heard from folks who were able to stay in their home because of this assistance.
We must build more housing to ensure that our nurses, teachers, police officers, and grocer store clerks are able to live in the communities they serve. When we don't do that, folks are forced to move further and further away, which leads to additional commuting, and climate emissions.
We need to continue to invest in building sidewalks and bike lanes, because we must give people options on how to get around, without needing to jump in their car.
We do that by being stewards of our taxpayer-funded budget, to ensure that our dollars are being spent in ways to keep our community safe, maintain and grow our infrastructure (from parks, to roads and sidewalks, to the planting strips), and pass policies that streamline government, and make it more accessible and open to our public.
This means that our Mayor and Deputy Mayor are Councilmembers with better titles - think Chair and Vice Chair of a board, and the day-to-day operations of the city are carried out by a professional City Manager, who is hired by and reports directly to the City Council.
1st Legislative District Democrats
Shoreline Firefighters (IAFF 1760)
MLK Labor
Sierra Club
Washington Conservation Action
Washington Bikes
UFCW 3000
FairVote Washington
Transit Riders Union
The Urbanist
The Affordable Housing Council
Kenmore Leaders:
U.S. Representative Suzan DelBene
State Sen. Derek Stanford
State Rep. Davina Duerr
State Rep. Shelley Kloba
King County Councilmember Rod Dembowski
Kenmore Deputy Mayor Melanie O'Cain
Kenmore Councilmember Debra Srebnik
Kenmore Councilmember Nathan Loutsis
Kenmore Councilmember Valerie Sasson
Kenmore Councilmember Joe Marshall
Northshore Fire Commissioner Eric Adman
Evergreen Hospital Commissioner Robin Campbell
A few years later, I was eating lunch at a place an hour north of Kenmore, and the waitress mentioned something about Kenmore. I mentioned that I was the Mayor, and she then told me about how that direct cash assistance helped keep her and her family in their home and off the streets.
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Other survey responses
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See also
2025 Elections
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Footnotes
