Become part of the movement for unbiased, accessible election information. Donate today.
Primaries in Washington, 2024
|
← 2022
|
| Top-two and top-four battleground primaries, 2024 |
 |
| Primary Date |
| August 6, 2024 |
| Federal elections |
| Top-two primaries for U.S. House |
| State party |
| State political party revenue |
This page focuses on the top-two primaries that took place in Washington on August 6, 2024.
Washington uses a top-two primary system, in which all candidates appear on the same ballot, for congressional and state-level elections. The top two vote-getters move on to the general election, regardless of their party affiliation. In states that do not use a top-two system, all parties are usually able to put forward a candidate for the general election if they choose to.[1][2]
For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.
Federal elections
U.S. Senate
A top-two primary took place on August 6, 2024, in Washington to determine which two candidates would run in the state's general election on November 5, 2024.
Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for U.S. Senate Washington
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Maria Cantwell (D) | 57.2 | 1,114,327 |
| ✔ |  | Raul Garcia (R)  | 22.1 | 431,182 |
 | Scott Nazarino (R) | 5.7 | 111,386 | |
 | Isaac Holyk (R) | 5.7 | 110,701 | |
 | Melanie Ram (R) | 4.5 | 86,956 | |
 | Charlie Jackson (Independent Party) | 1.1 | 21,055 | |
 | David Tilton (No party preference) | 0.9 | 17,561 | |
 | Paul Giesick (D) | 0.9 | 17,433 | |
 | GoodSpaceGuy (R) | 0.9 | 16,826 | |
 | Thor Amundson (Independent Party) | 0.5 | 10,587 | |
 | Henry Dennison (Socialist Workers Party) | 0.4 | 7,840 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 2,862 | ||
| Total votes: 1,948,716 | |||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Aria Ursa (D)
- Ryan Searcy (R)
- John Guenther (R)
- Gregory Saunders (R)
- Destiny Archer (R)
- John Peterson (D)
U.S. House
District 1
Primary candidates- Suzan DelBene (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Jeb Brewer (Republican Party) ✔
- Derek Chartrand (Calm Rational GOP Party)
- Matthew Heines (Trump Republican Party)
- Mary Silva (Republican Party)
- Orion Webster (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 2
Primary candidates- Rick Larsen (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joshua Binda (Democratic Party)
- Jason Call (Green Party)
- Cody Hart (MAGA Republican Party) ✔
- Devin Hermanson (Democratic Party)
- Leif Johnson (Republican Party)
- Daniel Miller (Republican Party)
- Edwin Stickle (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 3
Primary candidates- Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Joe Kent (Republican Party) ✔
- Leslie Lewallen (Republican Party)
- John Saulie-Rohman (Independent Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 4
Primary candidates- Dan Newhouse (Incumbent) (Republican Party) ✔
- Mary Baechler (Democratic Party)
- Benny Garcia (Independent Party)
- Barry Knowles (Democratic Party)
- John Malan (MAGA Democrat Party)
- Jane Muchlinski (Democratic Party)
- Jerrod Sessler (Republican Party) ✔
- Tiffany Smiley (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 5
Primary candidates- Bernadine Bank (Democratic Party)
- Michael Baumgartner (Republican Party) ✔
- Bobbi Bennett-Wolcott (Democratic Party)
- Jonathan Bingle (Republican Party)
- Carmela Conroy (Democratic Party) ✔
- Ann Marie Danimus (Democratic Party)
- Brian Dansel (Republican Party)
- Rick Flynn (Republican Party)
- Rene' Holaday (Republican Party)
- Jacquelin Maycumber (Republican Party)
- Matthew Welde (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 6
Primary candidates- Janis Clark (Republican Party)
- Hilary Franz (Democratic Party)
- Drew MacEwen (Republican Party) ✔
- J. Graham Ralston (Independent Party)
- Emily Randall (Democratic Party) ✔
- Derek Kilmer (Incumbent)
- Kate Dean
- Elizabeth Kreiselmaier
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 7
Primary candidates- Pramila Jayapal (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Dan Alexander (Republican Party) ✔
- Liz Hallock (Democratic Party)
- Cliff Moon (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 8
Primary candidates- Kim Schrier (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Keith Arnold (Democratic Party)
- Carmen Goers (Republican Party) ✔
- Imraan Siddiqi (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 9
Primary candidates- D. Adam Smith (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Melissa Chaudhry (Democratic Party) ✔
- C. Mark Greene (Republican Party)
- David Ishii (Bipartisan Party)
- Paul Martin (Republican Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyDistrict 10
Primary candidates- Marilyn Strickland (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Richard Boyce (Congress Sucks Party)
- Kurtis Engle (Union Party)
- Don Hewett (Republican Party) ✔
- Eric Mahaffy (Democratic Party)
- Nirav Sheth (Republican Party)
- Desirée Toliver (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyState elections
State Senate
- See also: Washington State Senate elections, 2024
Washington State Senate elections, 2024 |
|||
|
|||
| Office |  Democratic |
 Republican |
Other |
| District 1 |
|
|
|
| District 2 |
|
||
| District 3 |
Did not make the ballot: |
|
|
| District 4 |
|
||
| District 5 |
|
||
| District 9 |
|
|
|
| District 10 |
|
|
|
| District 11 |
|
|
|
| District 12 |
Did not make the ballot: |
|
|
| District 14 |
|
|
|
| District 16 |
|
|
|
| District 17 |
|
||
| District 18 |
|
||
| District 19 |
|
|
|
| District 20 |
|
|
|
| District 22 |
|
||
| District 23 |
|
|
|
| District 24 |
|
||
| District 25 |
|
|
|
| District 27 |
|
|
|
| District 28 |
|
|
|
| District 39 |
|
|
|
| District 40 |
|
|
|
| District 41 |
|
|
|
| District 49 |
|
||
House of Representatives
State executive offices
Nine state executive offices were up for election in Washington in 2024:
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Attorney General
Secretary of State
Auditor
Treasurer
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Public Lands Commissioner
Insurance Commissioner
Governor
Primary candidates- Ricky Anthony (Democratic Party)
- Semi Bird (Republican Party)
- Brian Bogen (No party preference)
- A.L. Brown (Republican Party)
- Edward Cale (Democratic Party)
- Jim Clark (No party preference)
- William Combs (Independent Party)
- Jeff Curry (Independent Party)
- Jim Daniel (Republican Party)
- Frank Dare (Independent Party)
- Michael DePaula (Libertarian Party)
- Bob Ferguson (Democratic Party) ✔
- Fred Grant (Democratic Party)
- Cassondra Hanson (Democratic Party)
- Bill Hirt (Republican Party)
- Jennifer Hoover (Republican Party)
- Chaytan Inman (Democratic Party)
- EL'ona Kearney (Democratic Party)
- Leon Lawson (Trump Republican Party)
- Alan Makayev (Nonsense Busters Party)
- Rosetta Marshall-Williams (Independence Party)
- Brad Mjelde (No party preference)
- Mark Mullet (Democratic Party)
- Dave Reichert (Republican Party) ✔
- Don Rivers (Democratic Party)
- Andre Stackhouse (Green Party)
- Alex Tsimerman (Standup-America Party)
- Martin Wheeler (Republican Party)
- Ambra Mason (Constitution Party) (Write-in)
- Bobbie Samons (No party preference) (Write-in)
- Robert Arthur Ferguson
- Robert Benjamin Ferguson
- Tim Ford
- Hilary Franz
- Raul Garcia
- Reggie Grant
- Laurel Khan
- Ambra Mason
- Daniel Miller
- Eric Nelson
- Geoff Nelson
- Kriss Schuler
- Tony Tasmaly
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyLieutenant Governor
Primary candidates- Denny Heck (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- David Griffin (Democratic Party)
- Bob Hagglund (Republican Party)
- Patrick Harman (Liberal Republican Party)
- Dan Matthews (Republican Party) ✔
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyAttorney General
Primary candidates- Nick Brown (Democratic Party) ✔
- Manka Dhingra (Democratic Party)
- Pete Serrano (Republican Party) ✔
Secretary of State
Primary candidates- Steve Hobbs (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Marquez Tiggs (Democratic Party)
- Damon Townsend (No Labels Party)
- Dale Whitaker (Republican Party) ✔
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyAuditor
Primary candidates- Pat McCarthy (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Matt Hawkins (Republican Party) ✔
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyTreasurer
Primary candidates- Mike Pellicciotti (Incumbent) (Democratic Party) ✔
- Sharon Hanek (Republican Party) ✔
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Primary candidates- Chris Reykdal (Incumbent) (Nonpartisan) ✔
- John Patterson Blair (Nonpartisan)
- David Olson (Nonpartisan) ✔
- Reid Saaris (Nonpartisan)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyInsurance Commissioner
Primary candidates- Bill Boyd (Democratic Party)
- Chris Chung (Democratic Party)
- Phil Fortunato (Republican Party) ✔
- Jonathan Hendrix (No party preference)
- Patricia Kuderer (Democratic Party) ✔
- Justin Murta (Republican Party)
- John Pestinger (Democratic Party)
- Tim Verzal (No party preference)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyPublic Lands Commissioner
Primary candidates- Jeralee Anderson (Democratic Party)
- Jaime Herrera Beutler (Republican Party) ✔
- Patrick DePoe (Democratic Party)
- Allen Lebovitz (Democratic Party)
- Sue Kuehl Pederson (Republican Party)
- Dave Upthegrove (Democratic Party) ✔
- Kevin Van De Wege (Democratic Party)
= candidate completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection surveyVoting information
- See also: Voting in Washington
Context of the 2024 elections
Washington Party Control: 1992-2024
Eighteen years of Democratic trifectas • No Republican trifectas
Scroll left and right on the table below to view more years.
| Year | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Governor | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| Senate | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | R | R | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | R[3] | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
| House | D | D | D | R | R | R | R | S | S | S | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D | D |
State party overview
Democratic Party of Washington
- See also: Democratic Party of Washington
Republican Party of Washington
- See also: Republican Party of Washington
State political party revenue
State political parties typically deposit revenue in separate state and federal accounts in order to comply with state and federal campaign finance laws.
The Democratic Party and the Republican Party maintain state affiliates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and select U.S. territories. The following map displays total state political party revenue per capita for the Democratic and Republican state party affiliates.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ NCSL, "State Primary Election Types," accessed October 3, 2024
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Top 2 Primary: FAQs for Candidates," accessed October 3, 2024
- ↑ Democrats gained full control of the state Senate after a special election on November 7, 2017.
