Over the past month, the gas industry and its unions flooded a local race in Washington state with money to defeat a progressive incumbent who had championed policies to shift the Evergreen State away from gas appliances.

But voters in the district covering the San Juan Islands and neighboring coastal communities overwhelmingly favored incumbent Rep. Alex Ramel in the first round of voting on Tuesday night.

The progressive netted nearly 75% of the roughly 23,000 votes cast in the primary. Trevor Smith, the union leader who cast Ramels push for electrified buildings as dangerous and out-of-touch, won about 22%. Write-ins made up the other 3%.

This result is humbling, Ramel wrote in a tweet late Tuesday night.

In an email to HuffPost, he said there was clearly a backlash from the community learning about that much money was being spent by oil and gas companies and their friends.

Smith did not immediately respond to an interview request sent early Wednesday morning.

Both Democrats will now advance to Novembers general election.