Congressman Derek Kilmer was easily rolling to a second term in Congress as the first vote tallies in the race for the 6th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives were announced on Election Night.

Kilmer, a Gig Harbor Democrat serving in his first term, collected 63 percent of the vote over Republican opponent Marty McClendon. McClendon had 37 percent of the vote.

A total of 145,414 votes have been counted in the race.

Kilmer had 91,606 votes, and McClendon, 53,808.

“I’m grateful that folks have chosen to hire me again,” Kilmer said.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do,” he added. “There are still too many people out of work and too many families who are feeling squeezed.  Rather than focusing on partisan games, I’ll keep going to work every day focused on the folks I represent. And I’ll keep working hard to get this economy and this Congress back on track.”