The state House 19th Legislative District race between James Walsh of Aberdeen, a Republican, and Teresa Purcell of Longview, a Democrat, is too close to call in initial vote counting, with just 320 votes separating them on election night, out of almost 36,000 votes cast.

Purcell was leading 18,150 to 17,830 votes, for 50.44 percent of the vote.

In Grays Harbor County, Walsh has only an 11-vote lead, 4,411 tp 4,400 votes, 49.94 percent. The county had voter turnout of 50.13 percent with 20,271 voters participating.

The district includes portions of Grays Harbor, Lewis, and Cowlitz as well as Pacific and Wahkiakum counties. Walsh was also leading in Lewis (920 to 408) and Wahkiakum (1,048 to 887). Purcell was ahead in her home county of Cowlitz (8,130 to 7,185) and Pacific (4,325 to 4,266).

According to the most recent campaign documents filed with the Public Disclosure Commission, Purcell raised $236,659 while Walsh garnered $158,322.91.

The winner replaces Democratic incumbent Rep. JD Rossetti, who was appointed to the seat about a year ago but didn’t garner enough votes during the primary to be included on the ballot. Rossetti and Purcell vote totals in the August runoff election were so close that a recount was necessary to determine Purcell was eligible to run in Tuesday’s General Election.