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State representatives are elected to two-year terms, and two from each of 49 legislative districts in separate elections. While the U.S. state of Washington is considered a solidly Democratic state, it mainly elected Republican candidates during its first forty years of statehood. It currently holds the longest streak of Democratic governors in ...
2012 United States Senate election in Washington [3] [4] Primary election Party Candidate Votes % Democratic: Maria Cantwell (incumbent) 626,360 55.42 Republican: Michael Baumgartner: 344,729 30.50 Republican: Art Coday 59,255 5.24 Democratic: Timothy Wilson 26,850 2.38 Republican: Chuck Jackson 21,870 1.94 Republican: Glenn R. Stockwell 21,731 ...
The 2024 Washington State Senate elections were held on November 5, 2024, with a nonpartisan blanket primary election held on August 6, 2024. Voters in 25 of the 49 state legislative districts elected Senators to the Washington State Senate. [1] The elections will coincide with other elections for federal, state, and local offices.
See live updates of Washington election results from the 2024 election, including Senate, House and Gubernatorial races and ballot initiatives.
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Ohio's admission to the Union in 1803, the state was assigned a Class 1 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1803 .
The 2022 United States Senate election in Washington was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Washington. Murray had won re-election to a fifth term in 2016 with 59% of the vote.
In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden won 34 of Washington State's legislative districts while Republican Donald Trump won 15. Going into the 2024 election, Republicans hold 10 House of Representatives seats in 5 different districts that Joe Biden won in 2020: district 12 (Biden +3); majority-minority district 14 (Biden +14); district 17 (Biden +6); district 25 (Biden +2); and ...
The 2022 Washington State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Washington state voters elected state senators in 25 of the state's 49 Senate districts . The other 24 state senators were not up for re-election until the next biennial election in 2024.