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Gorton Holds Slim Lead in Wash. Senate Race SEATTLE (Reuters) - Three-term Republican Sen. Slade Gorton held a slim lead in the hotly contested U.S. Senate election in Washington state on Wednesday, so far defying election night exit polls that gave his Democratic rival Maria Cantwell a victory. Democrats, however, gained a U.S. House of Representatives seat, according to official results with their candidate Rick Larsen besting Republican John Koster by 50.4 percent to 45.7 percent. With just under two-thirds of the votes counted, Gorton had 849,085 ballots, for 48.8 percent of the total, to Cantwell"s 845,364 votes, or 48.6 percent. The race was the last outstanding election for the U.S. Senate and will determine whether Republicans keep their majority, 51-49, or whether the body would be split 50-50 with the election of Cantwell. In either case, however, Republicans would keep control. Election officials said only 1.7 million of 2.7 million expected ballots were counted on Tuesday night, a result of a quirky, but increasingly popular mail-in voting option in Washington. abcnews.go.com