LIVEBLOG: Primary election night, updated 1:08 a.m.

Polls closed at 8:00 p.m. tonight and results are trickling in. For some parts of the state, the turnout at the polls was low and there was good reason, since there wasn’t much to get excited about.

In other areas of the state, though, like Detroit’s 13th Congressional District, voter turnout was as heavy as the night was hot (85 degrees currently, at 10 p.m.) thanks to the highly contested and fiercely contentious three-way race between Democrats Mary Waters, Martha Scott and incumbent Democrat Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, who is embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s mother.

Numbers are coming in now, gathered nicely by WXYZ-Detroit Channel 7 on their Web site.

WLNS-Lansing TV 6 has results for central counties here.

Western county results are here, on the WOOD-Grand Rapids TV Web site.

Flint-Saginaw-Bay City-area counties are tallied here by WJRT-TV.

Northwest Michigan results are slow to arrive, but crawling in here at WPBN-Traverse City.

Click the hyperlinks above and poke around for results from your home district.

In the 13th, at this time (10:07 p.m.) with 30 percent of precincts reporting, Kilpatrick is not only not winning, she’s in third, trailing both Scott and Waters, who leads the race at this point 43 percent to 29 percent to 28 percent. An earlier tally, at 13 percent reporting, had Kilpatrick losing 45 percent to 35 percent 20 percent. So the lead is strong for Waters, but Kilpatrick is closing on second place and Waters is (sorry) receding slightly. The mo’ is with Kilpatrick, but the head start is with the former state rep.

Michigan Messenger’s Minni Forman is with the race-leading Waters campaign at a Detroit area Fuddruckers right now, where Waters is overdue for an appearance.

Minni reports that the manager at Fuddruckers had no idea that the Waters campaign was staging their primary party there. I’ve never been to a Fuddruckers before, but it does not sound like a place that stays open all night, so maybe Waters is a little surprised at her success. …

11:37 p.m.: The latest from Minni at the Mary Waters campaign party is that her people and supporters there think she has a 50 percent chance against incumbent Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. They’re excited, but as the night’s progressed, they’ve seen the well-funded Kilpatrick continually gain ground against their stunning initial burst. So close now, that the former state House Rep is only one point ahead of Kilpatrick 38 percent to 37 percent with two-thirds percent of all precincts reporting. Martha Scott is now a distant third at 25 percent of the vote. …

12:29 p.m.: With just four percent of the vote left to count throughout the U.P and northern lower Michigan, it looks like longtime Democratic U.S. Representative Bart Stupak’s opponent will be term-limited Republican State Rep. Tom Casperson. Michigan Messenger’s Eartha Melzer wrote a fantastic story on the three Republicans in that primary race here.

1:08 p.m.: Kilpatrick up by one point now — a difference of 900-some votes, with 71 percent of precincts reporting. The kitchen is closed at the Fuddruckers on Jefferson Avenue, and every third person still hanging out with the Mary Waters campaign is a reporter. Many supporters have come and gone, most saying they needed to work in the morning. Waters told Michigan Messenger’s Minni Forman that she woke up this morning thinking she had a 50-50 chance of beating Kilpatrick, and still thinks that’s true early into Wednesday.