Washington's 1st Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)

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Filing deadline: May 10, 2024
Primary: August 6, 2024
General: November 5, 2024
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Poll times: Poll opening hours vary; close at 8 p.m.
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Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic
DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic
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A top-two primary took place on August 6, 2024, in Washington's 1st Congressional District to determine which two candidates would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Suzan DelBene and Jeb Brewer advanced from the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1.

Candidate filing deadline Primary election General election
May 10, 2024
August 6, 2024
November 5, 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.

This page focuses on Washington's 1st Congressional District's top-two primary. For more in-depth information on the district's general election, see the following page:

Candidates and election results


Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 1

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 1 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Suzan DelBene
Suzan DelBene (D)
 
63.1
 
109,456
✔
Image of Jeb Brewer
Jeb Brewer (R) Candidate Connection
 
10.2
 
17,675
Image of Orion Webster
Orion Webster (R) Candidate Connection
 
9.7
 
16,770
Image of Mary Silva
Mary Silva (R) Candidate Connection
 
6.5
 
11,339
Image of Matthew Heines
Matthew Heines (Trump Republican Party)
 
6.2
 
10,815
Image of Derek Chartrand
Derek Chartrand (Calm Rational GOP Party)
 
4.0
 
6,980
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.2
 
392

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 173,427
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Jeb Brewer

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Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I have over 30 years working in operations and construction with a continual emphasis on cost accountability, improving efficiency, and holding people accountable. I’ve made a career of seeking out, listening, and working with people who have dissenting views to find the right solution to problems, this experience is what our nation needs. I understand that the sole job of a US Representative is to listen to their constituents and to support legislation that betters their lives and our country. Unfortunately career politicians forget this which is why we need representation with fresh ideas and why I support term limits and additional transparency of those who are elected. It is time to end politics as usual and stop electing the same people who make promises of change, but in reality have become the problem. I’m not complacent with broken, I expect results for your tax money, I expect better than what we currently have. If something is ineffective, fix it, replace it, get rid of it, don’t accept it. While I am the only candidate endorsed by the Washington State Republican Party, I am defined by my personal values. I will represent you, work to make your life better and build a brighter tomorrow."

Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

My campaign is about the American Dream and how it is not as attainable as it once was. As a country of immigrates people came here looking for better jobs, the chance to start a business, and the opportunity to own a home. Often immigrants were escaping violence, crime and oppressive governments dictating how they live their lives. But the direction our government is now hindering the American Dream, government is adding undue complexity for those who own a business, crime has worsened due to lack of enforcement, the government is pushing us to live in dense urban apartments, and the government is dictating our freedoms and choices in what we buy, and how we live our lives.

My top issue to address is legislation that strengthening the economy and specifically business creation and growth. Through vibrant businesses we create wealth, jobs, and lower dependance on others. And if that business is manufacturing, even better as we need to bring back manufacturing to the US and increase our competitive edge by producing and purchasing goods here which builds a stable economy and wealth that can then be used to help us solve other problems we are plagued with.

We need term limits, the time is over for career politicians, we need representatives who understand the problems of their constituents, not politicians who leveraged their office to make millions of dollars for themselves.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 1 in 2024.

Mary Silva

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Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I have worked for the past 19 years as an audiologist in Washington State. I am a wife, a mother and a Christian. I volunteer as a board member for my professional state organization and I volunteer once a week at my child’s school. I do the things ordinary people do, when they want to make a positive impact on their world. I love to laugh and be surrounded by my family and friends. I feel immense gratitude for the life I have been given. In my spare time, I follow geopolitics, study history and engage in political activism. I watched on in horror as a pandemic of information warfare swept through our nation, removing sanity and common sense from many of our leaders, confounding our citizenry. Over the past few years, I have sensed our hope for the future has been stolen from us and it is becoming increasingly difficult for our younger generations, in particular, to plan for the future. It is evident that our country and way of life are being subverted, from both enemies without and within. We are being bombarded by contrived crises and being herded towards polarizing ends that do not benefit the interests of our people and which only serve to place us at odds with one another. I am running for Congress because I am not willing to sit here and just allow it to continue to happen, on my watch. I feel I must take part in this fight and help bring our people together. I want to show the younger generations what's occurred, how we turn this around and how to have hope again."

Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

The core message of my platform is that I want to bring technology jobs back to Washington State and protect our national security. We are now in danger of cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure, which could potentially cripple our society because private American technology companies shipped core fabrication and research departments of key sensitive cyber infrastructure abroad. We received that cyber infrastructure back full of back door security flaws. We need to regain control and fix this problem. There are cyber security professionals who know how to solve this, but their concerns have fallen on deaf ears for years. I am running to give these cyber security professionals a voice. I will work with them to fix this mess.

In order to put an end to the foreign interference by the banking-industrial complex, we must end the foundation system of funding and control. Think tanks, round table groups and foundations behave as if they are above our State Dept and are at the heart of how we find ourselves in endless foreign wars and in this hostile takeover of our technology sector. End the foundations, end the funding, end the interference in our government policies. We will be better off without this menacing network, funding their manipulative schemes on our soil. The United States is like a battered spouse, we don't think we have the strength to end it, but we have to end it now or things will continue to worsen for our people.

I want to see our citizens join together again and work toward enacting common sense policies that improve our local communities and heal our people from these past several years of insanity. I believe if we understand who has manipulated us into this great divide, we will find our common ground again. We used to debate eagerly and disagree civilly. We used to give one another the benefit of the doubt and we used to have a common bond in fighting for individual liberty and the Constitution. We need to remember what it means to be an American and realize that it is we who make up our government. We need to insist our elected officials remove the unelected usurpers of our power, or we will remove them. Our duty is to defend the Constitution.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 1 in 2024.

Orion Webster

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Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Welcome and thank you for taking the time to know more about who I am. I am a native to Washingtonian and have advocated for the common people. I am a Christian, a husband, a father, a patriot, a LEO, a veteran, and a protecter of innocent lives. I believe in the Constitution, the United States, and the People to govern themselves. Like many of you, I am very tired and frustrated of the political corruption and the unlawful federal targeting of my fellow American’s. Please take the time to review my website. Here you’ll find my resume, my Congressional platform, and my solutions to bring the federal government back in alignment with the Constitution. WE, the People, demand and deserve a government that SERVES the People, not rule over them."

Key Messages

To read this candidate's full survey responses, click here.

As a native resident of Washington State, I profoundly understand the challenges and hardships facing my fellow citizens. Currently, I serve as a federal law enforcement officer with over 24 years of experience in the military, security, and law enforcement sectors. Remaining steadfast in my service and commitment, I founded Guardian Aviation, a nonprofit dedicated to life-saving humanitarian missions and rescue operations for victims of human trafficking.

I am committed to strengthening our economy and retirements. I will fight to protect the rights of the unborn. I firmly support the Second Amendment and the right to self-defense. We need to secure the borders and stop the mass importation of illegal aliens, drugs, and human trafficking.

Government is not the solution; it is the problem. It has become a bureaucratic monster that believes it is superior to a government of, by, and for the People. I believe you and I have the right to form our own prosperity, and we must restrain the government to its Constitutional bounds. I pledge to restore the servant relationship and lighten our punitive tax burden. “You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” - Ronald Reagan. These will be my priorities, and on these principles, there will be no compromise. So help me God.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 1 in 2024.

Voting information

See also: Voting in Washington

Election information in Washington: Aug. 6, 2024, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

  • In-person: Aug. 6, 2024
  • By mail: Received by July 29, 2024
  • Online: July 29, 2024

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

  • In-person: N/A
  • By mail: N/A by N/A
  • Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

  • In-person: Aug. 6, 2024
  • By mail: Postmarked by Aug. 6, 2024

Was early voting available to all voters?

N/A

What were the early voting start and end dates?

July 19, 2024 to Aug. 6, 2024

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

N/A


Campaign finance

Name Party Receipts* Disbursements** Cash on hand Date
Suzan DelBene Democratic Party $3,850,571 $3,466,396 $1,063,721 As of December 31, 2024
Jeb Brewer Republican Party $14,151 $12,920 $1,231 As of December 31, 2024
Mary Silva Republican Party $8,386 $8,147 $246 As of July 17, 2024
Orion Webster Republican Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***
Derek Chartrand Calm Rational GOP Party $3,981 $4,150 $0 As of December 31, 2024
Matthew Heines Trump Republican Party $0 $0 $0 Data not available***

Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2024. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

* According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee."
** According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election.
*** Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

District analysis

Click the tabs below to view information about voter composition, past elections, and demographics in both the district and the state.

  • District map - A map of the district in place for the election.
  • Competitiveness - Information about the competitiveness of 2024 U.S. House elections in the state.
  • Presidential elections - Information about presidential elections in the district and the state.
  • State party control - The partisan makeup of the state's congressional delegation and state government.


Below was the map in use at the time of the election. Click the map below to enlarge it.

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See also: Primary election competitiveness in state and federal government, 2024

This section contains data on U.S. House primary election competitiveness in Washington.

Washington U.S. House competitiveness, 2014-2024
Office Districts/
offices 		Seats Open seats Candidates Possible primaries Contested top-two primaries % of contested primaries Incumbents in contested primaries % of incumbents in contested primaries
2024 10 10 2 62 10 10 100.0% 8 100.0%
2022 10 10 0 68 10 10 100.0% 10 100.0%
2020 10 10 1 73 10 10 100.0% 9 100.0%
2018 10 10 1 49 10 8 80.0% 7 77.8%
2016 10 10 1 56 10 10 100.0% 9 100.0%
2014 10 10 1 49 10 10 100.0% 9 100.0%

Post-filing deadline analysis

The following analysis covers all U.S. House districts up for election in Washington in 2024. Information below was calculated on June 4, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.

Sixty-two candidates ran for Washington’s 10 U.S. House districts, including 26 Democrats, 25 Republicans, three Independents, and eight non-major party candidates. That’s an average of 6.2 candidates per district. That’s lower than the 6.8 candidates per district in 2022 and the 7.3 in 2020.

The 5th and 6th Congressional Districts were open in 2024, meaning no incumbents ran for re-election. That’s the most open districts in an election cycle this decade.

Incumbent Reps. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-05) and Derek Kilmer (D-06) did not run for re-election because they retired from public office.

Eleven candidates—five Democrats and six Republicans—ran for the open 5th Congressional District, the most candidates who ran for a seat in Washington in 2024.

All 10 primaries were contested in 2024. Between 2022 and 2014, an average of 9.6 primaries were contested per year.

Eight incumbents—seven Democrats and one Republican—were in contested primaries in 2024. Between 2022 and 2014, an average of 8.8 incumbents were in contested primaries per year.

No districts were guaranteed to either party because Democratic and Republican candidates filed to run in all 10 districts. Washington utilizes a top-two primary system. In a top-two primary system, all candidates are listed on the same ballot. The top two vote-getters, regardless of their partisan affiliations, advance to the general election.

Partisan Voter Index

See also: The Cook Political Report's Partisan Voter Index

Heading into the 2024 elections, based on results from the 2020 and 2016 presidential elections, the Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+13. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 13 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Washington's 1st the 108th most Democratic district nationally.[3]

2020 presidential election results

The table below shows what the vote in the 2020 presidential election would have been in this district. The presidential election data was compiled by Daily Kos.

2020 presidential results in Washington's 1st based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden Democratic Party Donald Trump Republican Party
64.0% 33.3%

Inside Elections Baselines

See also: Inside Elections

Inside Elections' Baseline is a figure that analyzes all federal and statewide election results from the district over the past four election cycles. The results are combined in an index estimating the strength of a typical Democratic or Republican candidate in the congressional district.[4] The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline Democratic Party Republican Baseline Republican Party Difference
58.9 40.3 D+18.6

Presidential voting history

See also: Presidential election in Washington, 2020

Washington presidential election results (1900-2020)

  • 17 Democratic wins
  • 13 Republican wins
  • 1 other win
Year 1900 1904 1908 1912 1916 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1940 1944 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winning Party R R R P[5] D R R R D D D D D R R R D D R R R R D D D D D D D D D
See also: Party control of Washington state government

Congressional delegation

The table below displays the partisan composition of Washington's congressional delegation as of May 2024.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Washington
Party U.S. Senate U.S. House Total
Democratic 2 8 10
Republican 0 2 2
Independent 0 0 0
Vacancies 0 0 0
Total 2 10 12

State executive

The table below displays the officeholders in Washington's top four state executive offices as of May 2024.

State executive officials in Washington, May 2024
Office Officeholder
Governor Democratic Party Jay Inslee
Lieutenant Governor Democratic Party Denny Heck
Secretary of State Democratic Party Steve Hobbs
Attorney General Democratic Party Bob Ferguson

State legislature

Washington State Senate

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 29
     Republican Party 20
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 49

Washington House of Representatives

Party As of February 2024
     Democratic Party 58
     Republican Party 40
     Other 0
     Vacancies 0
Total 98

Trifecta control

The table below shows the state's trifecta status from 1992 until the 2024 election.

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[6] 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

Ballot access

The table below details filing requirements for U.S. House candidates in Washington in the 2024 election cycle. For additional information on candidate ballot access requirements in Washington, click here.

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2024
State Office Party Signatures required Filing fee Filing deadline Source
Washington U.S. House Ballot-qualified candidates 1,740[7] $1,740.00 5/10/2024 Source
Washington U.S. House Unaffiliated candidates 1,000 N/A 8/2/2024 Source

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Washington State Legislature, "Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.52.112," accessed September 16, 2025
  2. ↑ Washington State Legislature, "Wash. Rev. Code § 29A.60.221," accessed September 16, 2025
  3. ↑ Cook Political Report, "The 2022 Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠)," accessed January 10, 2024
  4. ↑ Inside Elections, "Methodology: Inside Elections’ Baseline by Congressional District," December 8, 2023
  5. ↑ Progressive Party
  6. ↑ Democrats gained full control of the state Senate after a special election on November 7, 2017.
  7. ↑ Petition signatures only required in lieu of filing fee.


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