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Arun Jhaveri

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Arun Jhaveri
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Last election

August 2, 2016

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Arun Jhaveri was a 2016 Democratic candidate who sought election to the U.S. House to represent the 7th Congressional District of Washington.[1] Jhaveri was defeated in the top-two primary on August 2, 2016.[2]

Elections

2016

See also: Washington's 7th Congressional District election, 2016

Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Democratic. Pramila Jayapal (D) defeated Brady Walkinshaw (D) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Jayapal and Walkinshaw defeated seven other candidates in the primary. Incumbent Jim McDermott (D) did not seek re-election in 2016, leaving the seat open.[1][3]

U.S. House, Washington District 7 General Election, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngPramila Jayapal 56% 212,010
     Democratic Brady Walkinshaw 44% 166,744
Total Votes 378,754
Source: Washington Secretary of State


U.S. House, Washington District 7 Primary, 2016
Party Candidate Vote % Votes
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngPramila Jayapal 42.1% 82,753
     Democratic Green check mark transparent.pngBrady Walkinshaw 21.3% 41,773
     Democratic Joe McDermott 19.1% 37,495
     Republican Craig Keller 8.2% 16,058
     Republican Scott Sutherland 4.6% 9,008
     Democratic Arun Jhaveri 1.7% 3,389
     Independent Leslie Regier 1.3% 2,592
     Democratic Donovan Rivers 1.2% 2,379
     Independent Carl Cooper 0.5% 1,056
Total Votes 196,503
Source: Washington Secretary of State

Campaign themes

2016

The following issues were listed on Jhaveri's campaign website. For a full list of campaign themes, click here.

  • Economic Prosperity: Creating thousands of high paying local jobs for an emerging, trained young workforce in our communities, by unleashing the power of clean and innovative renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, biomass, small hydro, and hybrid systems.
  • Environmental Stewardship: Urgently implementing the December 2015 United Nations Global Climate Change Agreement in Paris, resulting in significant reduction of local community green house gas emissions and carbon footprints to combat the anticipated disastrous impacts of anticipated extreme climate variations.
  • Social Justice: Developing immediate national legislation to help provide technical, financial and management resources to local urban/suburban/rural communities around the country that face serious inter-related issues of homelessness, alcohol/drug abuse, affordable housing, poverty, and economic/jobs/medical & health conditions.

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—Arun Jhaveri's campaign website, http://www.arunforcongress.com/issues

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