By Monday evening, Upthegrove had 395,812 votes and Kuehl Pederson had 395,619, a difference of 193 votes – about 0.02% of their total votes. There were an estimated 1,350 votes left to count around the state, including 300 in King County, where Upthegrove got 34% of the vote, and 377 in Benton County, where Kuehl Pederson has received about 34% of the vote.
The difference between Upthegrove and Kuehl Pederson will almost certainly trigger an automatic recount. Automatic machine recounts in the primary occur when the difference between the second- and third-place candidates is less than one half of one percent of their total, and also is less than 2,000
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