The race for the 41st District State Senate seat is still not over, following the certification Wednesday of the results of the Nov. 2 general election.

In the Senate race, the top two candidates, Steve Litzow of Mercer Island and incumbent Randy Gordon of Bellevue are separated by 194 votes, or .32 percent. That means King County Elections will do a machine count Dec. 1 of the 63,361 votes cast.

Litzow, a Republican, received 30,030 votes to Democrat Gordon’s 29,836. The race was for Gordon’s unexpired two-year term in the Senate.

The official results also show first-term state Rep. Marcie Maxwell of Renton with 54 percent of the vote to Peter Dunbar’s 46 percent. Maxwell, a Democrat, had led comfortably since election night.

State Rep. Judy Clibborn also retained her Position 2 seat in the 41st District, beating Stephen Strader 60 percent to 40 percent.

King County Elections Wednesday morning certified the results of the 2010 general election 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.

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