Bainbridge Islanders want stricter regulations on who can buy guns.

That’s becoming increasingly clear as ballots continue to be counted for Initiative 1639.

I-1639 — a proposal to enhance background checks for semiautomatic assault rifles, raise the minimum purchase age for semiautomatic assault rifles and increase waiting periods for sales or delivery of semiautomatic assault rifles — was the only gun control measure on the ballot anywhere in the country.

The measure easily passed in Washington this November, with 59.6 percent of the vote.

A Review analysis of unofficial precinct tallies across Bainbridge Island’s 23 precincts shows voters were overwhelmingly in favor of I-1639.

The initiative received an 84.5 percent “yes” vote from Bainbridge voters, according to unofficial precinct returns this week.

In the vote tally released earlier this week, a total of 12,467 voters on Bainbridge cast ballots in favor of I-1639, with the “no” vote standing at 2,285 ballots (15.4 percent against.)

Bainbridge Councilman Matt Tirman, who sponsored a resolution supporting I-1639 that was approved by the Bainbridge Island City Council, said members of the community asked what Bainbridge could do to support the initiative. That request came right after the deadly massacre at a synagog in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

“I took it upon myself to write the resolution,” Tirman said.

The campaign for I-1639 noted it was the third ballot measure on firearms to pass in Washington since 2014. Initiative 594, which expanded background checks for firearm purchases, passed with a

59 percent “yes” vote in 2014. Initiative 1491, which established “extreme risk protection orders” in the state, passed with 69 percent of the vote in 2016.

The lopsided approval for I-1639 was the largest on Bainbridge for any of the four initiatives on the November ballot.

“It’s fantastic,” Tirman added this week.

Statewide, the initiative garnered a 59.6 percent approval from voters through the latest update vote count Wednesday. In Kitsap County, the “yes” vote stood at 57.2 percent.

Bainbridge voters also strongly supported Initiative 1631, which would have levied pollution fees on carbon emissions.

Though I-1631 fell at the state level (56.4 percent against), and in Kitsap (57.8 percent against), Bainbridge voters gave it a resounding thumbs up.

Island voters supported the measure with 69.6 percent of the vote.

The Bainbridge council also endorsed I-1631, Tirman noted.

“I’m glad to see the island played its part,” he said.

Island voters split with their counterparts across Kitsap County, and Washington state, in rejecting Initiative 1634, which would have prevented local governments from imposing additional taxes on sweetened beverages.

Bainbridge voters nixed I-1634 with a 65.9 percent “no” vote.

Statewide, the approval rate was 55.6 percent, and in Kitsap, 56.9 percent.

Initiative 940, a measure that requires law enforcement to receive violence de-escalation, mental-health and first-aid training (plus provide first-aid), passed in Washington with a statewide approval rate of 59.6 percent.

In Kitsap, in earned a 58.45 percent “yes” vote.

On Bainbridge Island, 77 percent of voters supported I-940.

In other 2018 General Election results, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell beat Republican challenger Susan Hutchison by getting 58.6 percent of the vote.

Cantwell, the Democratic Party incumbent, earned 56.3 percent of the vote (Hutchison, 43.5).

U.S. Rep. Derek Kilmer, the incumbent Democrat in Washington’s 6th Congressional District, handily defeated Republican Douglas Dightman by collecting 63.8 percent of the vote. (Dightman had 36.1 percent.)

In Kitsap, Kilmer’s approval was 64.2 percent (Dightman, 35.7).

In the race for the District 23, Position 1 in the Washington House, incumbent Democrat Sherry V. Appleton beat Becky Erickson with 58.7 percent of the vote.

Erickson, the current mayor of Poulsbo who did not run under a party affiliation, gathered 40.8 percent of ballots cast in the 23rd District.

Bainbridge voters gave Appleton 76.9 percent of the vote, according to a Review analysis of unofficial precinct tallies. Erickson got 23 percent of the Bainbridge vote.