(Olympia, WA)  --  State Senator Cyrus Habib will be Washington's next lieutenant governor.  The latest returns show the Bellevue Democrat defeated Republican Marty McClendon by a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent.  Habib will succeed the retiring Brad Owen, who was first elected lieutenant governor in 1996.  With the win, Habib will become the highest-ranking Iranian-American elected official in the U.S.