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General election will include familiar faces
Incumbent Congressman Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, fills out his Aug. 4 primary election ballot with his 6-year-old daughter, Maria Baumgartner, observing.
SPOKANE – It looks like the race for Eastern Washington's congressional seat will be a rematch.
At the end of the initial tally of ballots on election day, Aug. 4, Spokane Republican Michael Baumgartner and Democrat Carmela Conroy were well ahead in the 12-candidate field.
Baumgartner, the only Republican in the primary, had a whopping 54,205 votes, or 47.97%, district-wide. Conroy was a distant second with 23,536 votes, or 20.83%.
Independent Nate Powell, whose financial insurgency in the final weeks of the campaign, was sitting in third with 16,216 votes, or 14.35%.
No other candidates broke...
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