Councilman Robert White has won the Democratic primary to be Washington, D.C.’s, next delegate to the House of Representatives, beating out his colleague Brooke Pinto in their race to replace retiring Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC).

With 64% of the vote counted early Wednesday morning, White was declared the winner of the Democratic primary with 58,269 votes, good for 63.2% of the vote compared to Pinto, who came in second place with 19,792 votes, earning 21.5% of the vote, according to the Associated Press. In deep-blue Washington, D.C., White is all but guaranteed to win in the November general election.

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