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The Latest Results: Gap Between Wiggins and Sanders Narrows
This post has been updated to reflect the latest numbers, which show challenger Charlie Wiggins narrowing Supreme Court justice Richard Sanders' margin. The original post, based on earlier numbers, showed the gap widening.
The knuckle-biting race between state supreme court justice Richard Sanders and challenger Charlie Wiggins continues to be close in today's returns. Sanders now has 50.12 percent of the statewide total to Wiggins' 49.88 percent, a gap of 4,064 votes. On Friday, that gap was just over 8,900 votes. In King County, Wiggins has 58 percent to Sanders' 42 percent.
Sanders, a gay-marriage opponent whose actions on the bench have often been controversial, said shortly before the election that African Americans are incarcerated at a disproportionate rate because they have a “crime problem.”
Meanwhile, US Rep. Rick Larsen (D-2) continued to widen his lead against challenger John Koster, with 50.74 percent of the vote to Koster's 49.26 percent---a gap of nearly 4,000 votes.
And in the 44th state legislative district, Democratic Sen. Steve Hobbs continued to outpace GOP challenger David Schmidt, widening his lead---which was initially just two votes---to just over 700 votes.
King County Elections estimates that there are about 130,000 ballots in the county remaining to be counted.
The knuckle-biting race between state supreme court justice Richard Sanders and challenger Charlie Wiggins continues to be close in today's returns. Sanders now has 50.12 percent of the statewide total to Wiggins' 49.88 percent, a gap of 4,064 votes. On Friday, that gap was just over 8,900 votes. In King County, Wiggins has 58 percent to Sanders' 42 percent.
Sanders, a gay-marriage opponent whose actions on the bench have often been controversial, said shortly before the election that African Americans are incarcerated at a disproportionate rate because they have a “crime problem.”
Meanwhile, US Rep. Rick Larsen (D-2) continued to widen his lead against challenger John Koster, with 50.74 percent of the vote to Koster's 49.26 percent---a gap of nearly 4,000 votes.
And in the 44th state legislative district, Democratic Sen. Steve Hobbs continued to outpace GOP challenger David Schmidt, widening his lead---which was initially just two votes---to just over 700 votes.
King County Elections estimates that there are about 130,000 ballots in the county remaining to be counted.
