By Evan Smith
Democrats Luis Moscoso and Guy Palumbo were in a tight race Wednesday for the right to face Republican Mindie Wirth in November for the open state senate position in the 1st Legislative District.
Returns from the Tuesday primary released Wednesday showed Wirth with 40.05 percent of the vote to 30.20 percent for Palumbo and 29.75 percent for Moscoso. This was a change of position for the Democrats from the Tuesday evening count, which had showed 40.46 percent for Wirth, 29.89 percent for State Rep. Moscoso and 29.65 percent for Palumbo, an elected Snohomish County Fire District 7 commissioner and appointed Snohomish County planning commission member.
Elections officials expect to release updated returns Thursday afternoon and each day until they certify primary election results Aug. 16.
The two leading candidates in the primary advance to the Nov. 8 general-election ballot, regardless of party.
The three candidates were running for the position that Democratic State Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe is giving up after six four-year terms.
Moscoso has served three terms in the House of Representatives.
The 1st Legislative District includes most of Mountlake Terrace, all of Brier and Bothell, north Kirkland, unincorporated areas of King County between Bothell and Kirkland, and unincorporated areas of Snohomish County north and east of Bothell including the Maltby area.
Evan Smith can be reached at schsmith@frontier.com.
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