Voters were giving a slim majority to a proposal by Kitsap Transit to raise the sales tax rate to pay for passenger-only ferry service from Kitsap County to Seattle in early vote tallies Tuesday night.

Proposition 1 was passing with a 50.8 percent “yes” vote. In the initial vote count on Election Night, the “no” vote for Prop. 1 stood at 49.2.

Kitsap Transit is seeking voter approval to launch passenger ferry service from Bremerton, Kingston and Southworth and downtown Seattle by raising the sales tax rate by 3/10ths of 1 percent.