Longtime legislative incumbent Rep. Brian Blake (D-Aberdeen) is well ahead of his two Republican challengers in the second ballot count tabulated Wednesday for the primary election in the race for Dist. 19 Position 2.

District-wide Blake had just under 60 percent of the 24,283 ballots counted (14,562), Joel McEntire 21.47 percent (5,051) and David Parsons 18.56 percent (4,508). Along with the southern portion of Grays Harbor County, the 19th District also includes Pacific and Wahkiakum counties and portions of Lewis and Cowlitz counties.

Blake had 3,924 (62.05 percent) of the 6,324 ballots cast in Grays Harbor County. McEntire was in second place with 1,401, David Parsons had 999. In Pacific County, Blake had 63.46 percent, McEntire with 20.1 percent and Parsons with 16.44 percent, totals of 3,277, 1,038 and 849 respectively, after the first tabulation done Aug. 7.

The top two vote getters advance. The results are preliminary, pending ballots that are still arriving in the mail.

In the two-person race for the Dist. 19 Position 1 seat, Democrat Erin Frasier of Pe Ell and the incumbent, Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen), are in a virtual dead heat after Wednesday’s count. The district-wide totals gave Frasier 51.48 percent of the 24,633 votes cast. Both advance.

In Grays Harbor County, Frasier led 3,257 votes to 3.154 with 50.8 percent. Her advantage was greater in Pacific County, last tabulated Tuesday evening, with 53.71 percent of the 5,256 votes counted to 46.29 percent for Walsh.

In the 24th District State Representative Position 1 race, Democrat Mike Chapman (D-Port Angeles) leads Republican Jodi Wilke with 61.23 percent of the 37,460 votes cast within the district. In Grays Harbor County, Chapman leads Wilke with 52.74 percent of the 7,344 votes cast.

The 24th District Position 2 race has incumbent Steve Tharinger (D-Sequim) leading Republican challenger Jim McEntire with nearly 60 percent of the district-wide vote. In Grays Harbor County, Tharinger had 52.86 percent (3,871 votes) to McEntire’s 47.14 percent (3,452 votes).

Candidates for the other Washington, meaning Congress, included incumbent Democrat Derek Kilmer (R-Gig Harbor) against Republican Douglas Dightman and progressive candidate Tyler Myles Vega for the District 6 U.S. Representative seat. Of 13,527 votes cast in Grays Harbor County, Kilmer had 7,733, Dightman 5,302 and Vega 492. District-wide, Kilmer took more than 64 percent of the 116,039 ballots counted so far; Dightman was second with 32.52 percent.

In the very crowded U.S. Senator race for the seat held by longtime incumbent Democrat Maria Cantwell had her with more than 48 percent of the 13,710 votes counted by Wednesday in Grays Harbor County. Her closest competitor is Republican Susan Hutchison with a little over 29 percent. Statewide Cantwell held a 573,782 to 247,067 advantage over Hutchison, with none of the other 27 candidates with more than 3 percent of the vote out of more than a million counted.

After Wednesday’s count, voter turnout in Grays Harbor County stood at 33.52 percent, with 14,183 ballots counted out of 42,317 registered voters. The next ballot count is scheduled for Thursday at 4:30 p.m.