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COLFAX – If the initial ballot count is any indication, incumbent lawmaker Joe Schmick looks like he’s headed back to Olympia.
At the end of the first day of counting in the Aug. 4 primary election, Schmick, R-Colfax, had a 29-point-plus lead over his Democratic challenger Karina Wallace.
Schmick received 16,339 votes in his bid to retain Legislative District No. 9 Position No. 2 seat. Wallace trailed with only 8,975 votes. In other words, Schmick scored 64.43% of the vote while Wallace had 33.39%.
That’s almost the same as Schmick’s last race in 2024, when he topped Pam Kohlmeier, a Spokane Democrat, by a margin of 63.92% to 35.94%.
District No. 9 includes southern Spokane, Whitman, Lincoln, eastern Adams and other counties.
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