King County Elections certified the results of the 2010 General Election Nov. 24 with a total voter turnout of 71.6 percent exceeding initial projections of 68 percent.

King County received and processed 786,461 ballots this election, a record number since switching to the all vote-by-mail system in February 2009. Almost 20,000 of those received could not be counted because they were returned too late or the voter did not remedy a signature issue.

The District 41 State Senator race will undergo a machine recount beginning Dec. 1. The top two candidates, Steve Litzow and Randy Gordon, are separated by 194 votes .32 percent, which meets state requirements for a machine recount.

King County Elections will release a comprehensive list of the General Election by the numbers in the following days.