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The 2020 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020. It followed a top-two primary held on August 4. Incumbent Governor Jay Inslee , the Democratic candidate, defeated Loren Culp, the Republican candidate by a wide margin.
Twenty-five of the forty-nine seats in the Washington State Senate were up for election. Democrats kept a 28–21 majority in the Senate. Democrats kept a 28–21 majority in the Senate. Senators retiring this election were Senators Randi Becker (R-Olympia), [ 28 ] Maureen Walsh (R-Walla Walla), [ 29 ] and Hans Zeiger (R-Puyallup). [ 30 ]
Two-term incumbent Democrat Jay Inslee was eligible to run for re-election in 2020, as Washington does not have gubernatorial term limits. Inslee ran for re-election to a third term after dropping out of the Democratic presidential primaries on August 21, 2019. [90] [91] He faced police chief of the city of Republic, Washington, Loren Culp. [92]
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Biden also became the candidate with the highest vote total in the state's history, with 2,369,612 votes. [4] This was the first time since 1988 that Washington voted to the left of Illinois . The Seattle metropolitan area , home to almost two-thirds of the state's population, is overwhelmingly Democratic .
It’s not just Donald Trump and JD Vance.Numerous other 2020 election deniers are running in 2024 elections. At least 23 of this year’s 51 Republican nominees for governor, state elections ...
[2] [3] Washington has conducted its presidential elections through mail-in voting since 2012 for general elections and 2016 for party primaries. [ 4 ] In the 1892 presidential election , incumbent president Benjamin Harrison received 41.45% of the popular vote in Washington and obtained the state's four electoral votes in his unsuccessful re ...
The Washington state Republican Party filed a lawsuit against King County elections to challenge the results of the August primary election. Republicans allege in their complaint that King County ...