Primary election votes counted
Published 2:34 pm Thursday, October 2, 2008
Local voters took to the polls Sept. 19 to whittle down the field in
federal and state election races. Following are the unofficial vote totals collected
by the Secretary of State’s office as of Monday morning.
Name, party, votes, percentage
U.S. senator
Maria Cantwell, Democrat, 398,412, 36.59 percent
Slade Gorton, Republican, 476,088, 43.73 percent
Warren E. Hanson, Republican, 15,408, 1.41 percent
Jeff Jared, Libertarian, 14,059, 1.29 percent
Barbara Lampert, Democrat, 14,307, 1.31 percent
Ken McCandless, Republican, 10,696, 0.98 percent
Robert Tilden Medley, Democrat, 12,461, 1.14 percent
June Riggs, Republican, 9,041, 0.83 percent
Deborah Senn, Democrat, 138,237, 12.69 percent
U.S. representative, District 8
Heidi Behrens-Benedict, Democrat, 42,519, 37.44 percent
Jennifer Dunn, Republican, 68,553, 60.36 percent
Bernard McIlroy, Libertarian, 2,486, 2.18 percent
Governor
John Carlson, Republican, 375,493, 34.35 percent
Meta Heller, Democrat, 25,216, 2.3 percent
Harold Hochstatter, Republican, 80,286, 7.34 percent
Steve W. LePage, Libertarian, 19,249, 1.76 percent
Gary Locke, Democrat, 592,908, 54.23 percent
Lieutenant governor
Ruth E. Bennett, Libertarian, 67,741, 6.92 percent
William “Mike” Elliott, Republican, 239,518, 24.49 percent
Joe K. Mitschelen, Republican, 135,544, 13.86 percent
Brad Owens, Democrat, 432,182, 43.27 percent
Lonnie W. Williams Sr., Democrat, 111,971, 11.44 percent
Secretary of state
Will Baker, Republican, 50,193, 5.23 percent
Don L. Baker, Democrat, 207,301, 21.63 percent
Rand Daley, Democrat, 40,895, 4.26 percent
James Findley, Republican, 81,132, 8.46 percent
J. Bradley Gibson, Libertarian, 31,771, 3.31 percent
Chris Loftis, Reform, 21,296, 2.22 percent
Allen Norman, Democrat, 38,547, 4.02 percent
Sam Reed, Republican, 206,497, 21.54 percent
Charles Rolland, Democrat, 71,242, 7.43 percent
Bob Terwilliger, Democrat, 118,180, 12.33 percent
Mike Wensman, Republican, 91,354, 9.53 percent
State treasurer
Louis Bloom, Democrat, 68,405, 7 percent
Mike Murphy, Democrat, 452,819, 46.37 percent
Tim Perman, Libertarian, 48,601, 4.97 percent
Diane Rhoades, Republican, 406,559, 41.63 percent
State auditor
Chris Caputo, Libertarian, 59,237, 5.94 percent
Richard McEntee, Republican, 375,434, 37.68 percent
Brian Sonntag, Democrat, 561,544, 56.36 percent
State attorney general
Luanne Coachman, Natural Law, 13,498, 1.31 percent
Christine Gregoire, Democrat, 559,817, 54.51 percent
Stan Lippman, Natural Medicine, 13,152, 1.28 percent
Richard Pope, Republican, 397,269, 38.68 percent
Richard Shepard, Libertarian, 43,182, 4.2 percent
Superintendent of public instruction, non-partisan
Teresa “Terry” Bergeson, 516,757, 57.11 percent
David Blomstrom, 73,741, 8.15 percent
Donald B. Crawford, 140,621, 15.54 percent
Neil T.B. Helgeland, 50,234, 5.55 percent
Arthur Hu, 123,461, 13.64 percent
Commissioner of public lands
Georgia Gardner, Democrat, 120,884, 12.01 percent
Steve Layman, Libertarian, 33,348, 3.31 percent
Mike Lowry, Democrat, 291,590, 28.99 percent
Mike the Mover, Democrat, 29,287, 2.91 percent
Jim O’Donnell, Democrat, 61,913, 6.15 percent
Patrick A. Parrish, Republican, 80,396, 7.99 percent
Bob Penhale, Democrat, 13,489, 1.34 percent
Tim Reid, Democrat, 43,547, 4.33 percent
Doug Sutherland, Republican, 331,365, 32.94 percent
Insurance commissioner
John Conniff, Democrat, 196,806, 20.86 percent
Don Davidson, Republican, 278,378, 29.5 percent
Curtis Fackler, Republican, 112,554, 11.93 percent
Mike Hihn, Libertarian, 39,389, 4.17 percent
Mike Kreidler, Democrat, 316,275, 33.52 percent
State senator, District 5
Dino Rossi, Republican, 14,685, 76.58 percent
Azziem Hassan Underwood, Democrat, 4,490, 23.41 percent
State representative, Position 1, District 5
Glenn Anderson, Republican, 10,623, 54.42 percent
Di Irons, Democrat, 8,100, 41.5 percent
Steve Otto, Libertarian, 794, 4.06 percent
State representative, Position 2, District 5
Lori Bechtold, Democrat, 7,107, 36.44 percent
Cheryl Pflug, Republican, 12,395, 63.55 percent
State representative, Position 1, District 45
David F. Goetsch, Democrat, 1,393, 8.47 percent
Jim Gordon, Democrat, 2,369, 14.41 percent
Kathy Lambert, Republican, 9,451, 57.49 percent
Janice C. Linville, Republican, 3,224, 19.61 percent
State representative, Position 2, District 45
Toby Nixon, Republican, 7,843, 45.94 percent
Laura Ruderman, Democrat, 9,229, 54.05 percent
State Supreme Court justice, Position 2, non-partisan
Barrie Althoff, 66,511, 8.24 percent
Terry Carroll, 119,948, 14.86 percent
Geoff Crooks, 48,260, 5.97 percent
David Larson, 112,722, 13.96 percent
Susan J. Owens, 220,116, 27.27 percent
Doug Schafer, 88,038, 10.9 percent
Jeff Sullivan, 151,585, 18.78 percent
State Supreme Court justice, Position 7, non-partisan
Bobbe J. Bridge, 463,774, 60.55 percent
Scott S. Schwieger, 302,052, 39.44 percent
State Supreme Court justice, Position 8, non-partisan
Gerry L. Alexander, 650,841, 100 percent
State Supreme Court justice, Position 9, non-partisan
Tom Chambers, 297,702, 37.9 percent
Jim Foley, 284,774, 36.25 percent
Ken Grosse, 202,979, 25.84 percent
Court of Appeals justice, Position 4, Division 1, District 1,
non-partisan
Ronald, E. Cox, 131,358, 100 percent
Court of Appeals justice, Position 7, Division 1, District 1,
non-partisan
Marlin J. Appelwick, 129,341, 100 percent
For more information about the Sept. 19 primary, visit the
Secretary of State’s election Web site at www.vote.wa.gov.
