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Jeanie Chunn
Jeanie Chunn ran in a special election to the Seattle City Council to represent District 2 in Washington. She lost in the special primary on August 5, 2025.
Chunn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jeanie Chunn was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. She earned a high school diploma from McDowell High School.[1]
Elections
2025
See also: City elections in Seattle, Washington (2025)
General election
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
Special general election for Seattle City Council District 2
Adonis Ducksworth and Eddie Lin are running in the special general election for Seattle City Council District 2 on November 4, 2025.
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| Adonis Ducksworth (Nonpartisan) | ||
| Eddie Lin (Nonpartisan) | ||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Special nonpartisan primary for Seattle City Council District 2
Eddie Lin and Adonis Ducksworth defeated Jeanie Chunn and Jamie Fackler in the special primary for Seattle City Council District 2 on August 5, 2025.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Eddie Lin (Nonpartisan) | 47.6 | 11,195 | |
| ✔ | Adonis Ducksworth (Nonpartisan) | 29.5 | 6,932 | |
 | Jeanie Chunn (Nonpartisan) | 12.7 | 2,985 | |
| Jamie Fackler (Nonpartisan) | 10.2 | 2,395 | ||
| Total votes: 23,507 | |||
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2025
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Jeanie Chunn completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chunn's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I co-founded Seattle Restaurants United during the COVID-19 crisis, helping local businesses survive by securing policy changes that protected workers, capped delivery fees, and secured funding. As co-chair of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, I helped pass legislation that delivered $28.6 billion in relief to the restaurant industry. As National Director of RAISE High Road Restaurants, I fought to raise the minimum wage and eliminate the subminimum wage, while launching programs to increase racial and gender diversity in leadership. As the Director of Community Engagement at Northwest Harvest, I worked to bring together community support and responsiveness to address emergent challenges, along with addressing systemic injustices, namely poverty and racism, to build policy to support food insecure folks.
We need council members who will stand their ground and fight for issues like these without fear of being called a socialist. This is why I am running for Seattle City Council so we can bring that fight for actual change that helps the people that need it most.- Housing. The people of Seattle voted to approve a social housing developer in 2023, and then overwhelmingly funded it with an excess compensation tax in 2025. I will make sure that the will of the people is followed and that those funds are released to the developer on time. In addition i believe that there is more we can do for the social housing developer such as incentivising sales of existing inventory to them. I also believe that we can make progress with the comprehensive plan to increase neighborhood centers near transit, and increase density particularly around those centers with more market rate housing while making our city more green and vibrant and lively.
- Public safety. We currently have an amazing resource in the seattle CARE team that only recently was allowed to respond to the entire city rather than just the west precinct. That resource is severely hobbled by the SPOG contract limitations to dual dispatch. I want to expand their work to adequately meet the needs of our city that are currently not being met appropriately or adequately by law enforcement that is ill equipped to handle those situations. Just because we have a big hammer doesn’t mean every problem is a nail. I see a strong need for community based accountability programs that are seeing huge success in other cities such as chicago.
- Progressive Revenue. Washington state has the most upside down tax codes in the country. Small business workers and owners carry the brunt of the tax burden. Corporations need to pay their fair share. I worked on jumpstart Seattle and will support other progressive revenues as well.
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Other survey responses
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See also
2025 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 7, 2025
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