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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.
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.
Washington state elections in 2024 were held on November 5, 2024.Primary elections were held on August 6, 2024. [1]This was the first time since 1965 that Republicans have not held at least one executive office going into the election.
Washington Democrats voted Monday to elect Sen. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, to be the new Senate Majority Leader. Pedersen will replace Sen. Andy Billig, D-Spokane, who is retiring after 14 years ...
The two candidates receiving the most votes in the August 6 primary move on to the November general election. ... (2011-2023), appointed to Washington State Senate (2023) Party: Democratic. ...
The district, from Gig Harbor to Bremerton, includes parts of Pierce and Kitsap counties.
The state constitution allows both houses to write their own rules of procedure (article II, section 9) and to elect their own officers (article II, section 10) with the proviso that the lieutenant governor may preside in each house and has a deciding vote in the Senate, but that the Senate may choose a "temporary president" in the absence of the lieutenant governor.
Democrats currently outnumber Republicans in the state Senate 29-20 and in the state House 58-40. In the Legislative District 18 Senate contest, Republicans hoped to gain a seat.