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Ted Cummings
Ted Cummings (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Washington House of Representatives to represent District 4-Position 2. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Cummings completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ted Cummings was born in Spokane, Washington. He earned an associate degree from Spokane Community College in 1997. His career experience includes working as a steelworker.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 2
Rob Chase defeated Ted Cummings in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 2 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Rob Chase (R) | 63.5 | 52,902 |
 | Ted Cummings (D)  | 36.3 | 30,208 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 148 | ||
| Total votes: 83,258 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 2
The following candidates ran in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 2 on August 6, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rob Chase (R) | 24.4 | 10,025 |
| ✔ | | Ted Cummings (D) | 24.0 | 9,886 |
 | Brandi Peetz (R) | 22.9 | 9,408 | |
| Michael Schmidt (R) | 16.3 | 6,715 | ||
| Ed Wood (D) | 8.4 | 3,466 | ||
 | Stephen Major (R) | 3.9 | 1,592 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 47 | ||
| Total votes: 41,139 | |||
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Campaign finance
Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Cummings in this election.
Pledges
Cummings signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2022
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1
Suzanne Schmidt defeated Ted Cummings in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Suzanne Schmidt (R) | 63.3 | 41,275 |
| Ted Cummings (D) | 36.5 | 23,797 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 91 | ||
| Total votes: 65,163 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1
Ted Cummings and Suzanne Schmidt defeated MJ Bolt in the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1 on August 2, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Ted Cummings (D) | 36.5 | 15,003 |
| ✔ | | Suzanne Schmidt (R) | 35.9 | 14,754 |
| MJ Bolt (R) | 27.4 | 11,272 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 78 | ||
| Total votes: 41,107 | |||
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2018
See also: Washington House of Representatives elections, 2018
General election
General election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1
Incumbent Matthew Shea defeated Ted Cummings in the general election for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Matthew Shea (R) | 57.7 | 39,572 |
| Ted Cummings (D) | 42.3 | 28,963 | |
| Total votes: 68,535 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1
Incumbent Matthew Shea and Ted Cummings advanced from the primary for Washington House of Representatives District 4-Position 1 on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Matthew Shea (R) | 57.4 | 23,934 |
| ✔ | | Ted Cummings (D) | 42.6 | 17,766 |
| Total votes: 41,700 | |||
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2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated Washington's U.S. Senate race as safely Democratic. Incumbent Patty Murray (D) won re-election in 2016. She defeated Chris Vance (R) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Murray and Vance defeated 15 other candidates to win the primary on August 2, 2016. In Washington, all candidates run in the same primary and the two candidates who receive the most votes, regardless of party affiliation, advance to the general election.[2][3]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |  Patty Murray Incumbent |
59% | 1,913,979 | |
| Republican | Chris Vance | 41% | 1,329,338 | |
| Total Votes | 3,243,317 | |||
| Source: Washington Secretary of State | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic |
Patty Murray Incumbent |
53.8% | 745,421 | |
| Republican | Chris Vance |
27.5% | 381,004 | |
| Republican | Eric John Makus | 4.2% | 57,825 | |
| Democratic | Phil Cornell | 3.4% | 46,460 | |
| Republican | Scott Nazarino | 3% | 41,542 | |
| Libertarian | Mike Luke | 1.5% | 20,988 | |
| Democratic | Mohammad Said | 1% | 13,362 | |
| Conservative | Donna Rae Lands | 0.8% | 11,472 | |
| Independent | Ted Cummings | 0.8% | 11,028 | |
| Human Rights | Sam Wright | 0.8% | 10,751 | |
| Republican | Uncle Mover | 0.6% | 8,569 | |
| System Reboot Party | Jeremy Teuton | 0.6% | 7,991 | |
| Democratic | Thor Amundson | 0.6% | 7,906 | |
| Independent | Chuck Jackson | 0.5% | 6,318 | |
| Lincoln Caucus | Pano Churchill | 0.4% | 5,150 | |
| Independent | Zach Haller | 0.4% | 5,092 | |
| Standupamerica | Alex Tsimerman | 0.3% | 4,117 | |
| Total Votes | 1,384,996 | |||
| Source: Washington Secretary of State |
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ted Cummings completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Cummings' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Good people don't hurt other people!
- Scabs and CEO's vote for republicans and republican policies hurt people, so don't vote like a scab or a CEO.
- I believe our nation is under attack from a dangerous, far right, un-American party that has and is subverting the rule of law in order to enrich themselves and install a regressive authoritarian form of government. Constant attacks on American institutions like the CDC, the FBI, the DOJ, as well as on public education, vaccines, our elections, the media, and certainly our constitutional rights, like the right of a woman to have bodily autonomy and receive healthcare without government oversight. I want to speak out and continually urge everyone this year to vote democratic and emphatically prove that hate, threats, and violence have no place in our political system or in our communities.
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2022
Ted Cummings did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 2, 2024
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Unofficial List of Candidates in Ballot Order," accessed May 23, 2016
- ↑ Politico, "Washington House Primaries Results," August 2, 2016
