Still Sleepless in Seattle...

With just over a quarter of the votes recounted, the Washington State recount for the gubernatorial election is showing the Republican lead as effectively increasing by 29 votes. If the other counties show the same broad levels of discrepencies from the original count but we assume they all go the Democrats' way, we cannot expect the Republican lead to be cut by more than between 150 and 200 votes in the remaining counties. Anything more would involve a major surprise.

With a 261 vote provisional lead to overturn, the intial result looks set to stand. A Republican win would give that Party 29 Governors to the Democrats' 21, a net gain of one for the GOP.

The table below shows the latest available update on the recount.

County	Change from first count
Adams	Dem +12	Rep +27	Lib +2
Asotin
Benton	Dem +1	Rep +2	Lib -1
Chelan	Dem +3	Rep +1	Lib n/c
Clallam	Dem +1	Rep +1	Lib n/c
Clark	Dem +3	Rep +7	Lib n/c
Columbia	Dem -1	Rep n/c	Lib n/c
Cowlitz
Douglas	Dem +2	Rep +4	Lib +1
Ferry	Dem +3	Rep +2	Lib n/c
Franklin
Garfield	Dem +1	Rep +1	Lib n/c
Grant
Grays Harbour
Island	Dem n/c	Rep +5	Lib n/c
Jefferson	Dem +1	Rep -4	Lib +1
King
Kitsap
Kittitas	Dem +19	Rep +25	Lib +2
Klickitat	Dem n/c	Rep +1	Lib n/c
Lewis	Dem +2	Rep +4	Lib n/c
Mason	Dem +1	Rep +2	Lib +1
Okanogan	Dem +1	Rep -1	Lib n/c
Pacific	Dem +1	Rep n/c	Lib n/c
Pend Oreille	Dem +6	Rep +2	Lib n/c
Pierce
San Juan	Dem n/c	Rep -1	Lib +1
Skagit
Skamania
Snohomish
Spokane
Stevens	Dem n/c	Rep n/c	Lib n/c
Thurston	Dem +2	Rep +4	Lib n/c
Wahkiakum	Dem n/c	Rep +1	Lib n/c
Walla Walla
Whatcom
Whitman
Yakima	Dem n/c	Rep n/c	Lib n/c
Total	Democrat +60	Republican +89	Libertarian +7

[figures calculated by me based on these sources: original score and recount]