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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 ]
Official portrait of Washington state governor Jay Inslee. This is the electoral history of Jay Inslee , the 23rd Governor of Washington since 2013. He previously served in the Washington House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993.
No Republican has won an election as Washington's governor since 1980, when John Spellman was elected. He lost reelection in 1984. Washington has the longest current streak of Democratic governors ...
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]
The governor of Washington is the head of government of Washington and commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. [2] [3] The officeholder has a duty to enforce state laws, [4] the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Washington Legislature and line-item veto power to cancel specific provisions in spending bills. [5]
The 2020 Washington lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 3, 2020, to elect the lieutenant governor of Washington concurrently with the 2020 Washington elections. The top-two primary was held on August 4, and Democrats Denny Heck and Marko Liias advanced to the general election, which Heck won.
Goodspaceguy ran in the 2016 gubernatorial election in Washington, [16] winning 13,191 votes in the primary but not advancing. [17] Goodspaceguy was running for King County Executive in the 2017 election, [ 18 ] and filed again in 2021 to run for the same office. [ 19 ]