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Election Results

Candidate Votes Pct
Barbara Madsen 520,618 63.95%
Greg Zempel 240,814 29.58%
(Zamboni) John Scannell 52,644 6.47%

* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.

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