Washington's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024 (August 6 top-two primary)

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Washington's 2nd Congressional District
Top-two primary General election
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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. Voting in Washington
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Cook Political Report: Solid Democratic DDHQ and The Hill: Safe Democratic Inside Elections: Solid Democratic Sabato's Crystal Ball: Safe Democratic
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A top-two primary took place on August 6, 2024, in Washington's 2nd Congressional District to determine which two candidates would run in the district's general election on November 5, 2024.

Incumbent Rick Larsen and Cody Hart advanced from the primary for U.S. House Washington District 2.

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.

For information about which offices are nominated via primary election, see this article.

This page focuses on Washington's 2nd Congressional District's top-two primary. For more in-depth information on the district's general election, see the following page:

• Washington's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024

Candidates and election results

Nonpartisan primary election

Nonpartisan primary for U.S. House Washington District 2

The following candidates ran in the primary for U.S. House Washington District 2 on August 6, 2024.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Rick Larsen (D)	48.1	106,276
✔		Cody Hart (MAGA Republican Party)	19.8	43,637
		Leif Johnson (R)	10.6	23,340
		Daniel Miller (R)	5.3	11,781
		Joshua Binda (D)	4.8	10,497
		Devin Hermanson (D)	4.3	9,578
		Jason Call (G)	3.5	7,787
		Edwin Stickle (D)	3.5	7,692
		Other/Write-in votes	0.1	197

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 220,785
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Candidate profiles

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Joshua Binda

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "Josh Binda is a first-generation African American who hails from Providence, Rhode Island. Originally from Liberia, his family escaped the civil war as refugees after winning an international lottery that brought them to the United States. In 2021, at the age of 21, Josh made history by becoming the youngest African American ever elected in Washington state. He has worked as an integration engineer for Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company and is the founder of his own business, Josh Binda Speaks LLC. Josh has received numerous awards, including the 425 Business 30 Under 30 Top Business Professionals of 2022, Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 Nominee 2023, and Snohomish County Emerging Leaders Award Nominee 2024. He is a passionate activist for racial and social justice and has dedicated himself to the city of Lynnwood, serving as the Chair of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Commission."

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Key Messages

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

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Affordable Housing: One of the main points of my campaign is to address the pressing issue of affordable housing in our community. I am committed to implementing policies that promote affordable housing options and work towards reducing homelessness. I believe that everyone deserves a safe and stable place to call home, and I will work tirelessly to make affordable housing a reality for all residents.

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Proactive Public Safety: Another crucial aspect of my campaign is proactively addressing public safety concerns. I will prioritize community policing initiatives, advocating for effective crime prevention strategies, and supporting law enforcement agencies. By fostering collaboration between law enforcement, community organizations, and residents, we can build safer neighborhoods and ensure that everyone feels secure in their daily lives.

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Investing in Medicare and Mental Health Resources: Recognizing the importance of healthcare, I will champion the expansion and improvement of Medicare coverage, ensuring that our community has access to affordable and quality healthcare services. Additionally, I am committed to investing in mental health resources, including increased funding for mental health facilities, support programs, and access to mental health professionals. Mental health is a critical component of overall well-being, and I believe in providing comprehensive resources for all individuals in need.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 2 in 2024.

Jason Call

Party: Green Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I'm a lifelong progressive activist on issues of war and peace, the environment, healthcare, education, and labor solidarity. I'm a former math educator with 18 years experience teaching in public high schools. I've been involved in activism and electoral politics since 1989. I have been a strong supporter of progressive presidential candidates like Dennis Kucinich and in particular Bernie Sanders, as well as local and state candidates who support truly progressive policy. I ran for this seat in 2020 and 2022 as a Democrat, both times coming 3rd, but with over 30k votes both times. I have chosen to leave the Democratic Party as neither corporate owned party is serving the American people at this point and the economy and environment are in catastrophic chaos. A fierce and unwavering progressive voice is needed. Think of an American Clare Daly. In my personal life, I'm married, have 2 kids, one a HS Senior and one in College. I play the bass guitar and sing in a rock band, and I'm a homebrewer."

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Key Messages

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

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Addressing the climate emergency, sustainable/renewable energy, eliminate fossil fuels

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Single payer universal healthcare, eliminate for-profit health insurance

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Corporate money out of politics, overturn Citizens United, public campaign financing

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 2 in 2024.

Devin Hermanson

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I've founded companies, helped take a startup public, raised hundreds of millions of dollars to help people living in poverty around the world, and led a nonprofit business from $2 million per year to over $35 million. And I appeared on Good Morning America, twice, with a bunch of goats. As a rare progressive with a lifetime of both service and experience as an entrepreneur, I know I can be an important voice in Congress. We can’t keep electing the same old career politicians and expect different results."

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Key Messages

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

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This is the fight of our lives. It’s also the opportunity of our lifetimes. When we vote, we win. And we will never again see as dangerous a candidate as Donald Trump and as incendiary an issue as abortion essentially on the ballot in the same election. This turnout can be the historic event that finally breaks the grip the GOP has had around the neck of our democracy for decades. We have to seize this moment and elect Democrats who understand the fight we’re in and have the guts to make bold change. We need more fight from Democrats and less corporate cash in their pockets. I’m running because I believe in the Case for Hope. And if you send me to Congress, I promise to fight with everything I have to make that hope a reality.

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Protecting our democracy has to be our top priority. Get money out of politics, protect voting rights, end gerrymandering, fight disinformation, expand the Supreme Court, and enact statehood for DC and Puerto Rico.

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We have to invest in America, not the wealthy. Fund the Green New Deal, Medicare for All, and education reform. Pass common-sense gun control, the expanded Child Tax Credit, and protect the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, women, and people of color.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 2 in 2024.

Edwin Stickle

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: No

Political Office: None

Submitted Biography:  "I am a Family Medicine Doctor in Mount Vernon, WA. I have 27 years of experience as a physician. I have been a leader in the medical community, twice serving as the Medical Chief of Staff at Skagit Valley Hospital, elected by my peers to serve for a total of 5 years in that position. My first career was in Aviation as an Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic. I work in many areas of medicine; delivering babies (41 last year), working as a hospice doctor, leading out in the nursing home field as a medical director, working in the 4 different hospitals as a hospitalist and teaching many medical students and residents over the years. I have had my own panel of patients in my office clinic for all of those years, at one point recently delivering a baby who was the 5th generation of this family which I had been a personal physician for. Last year I delivered a baby of a baby that I had delivered 21 years ago. I have had to deal with many illogical and frustrating parts of the Medicare system and have seen many patients mistreated and many bureaucratic dollars wasted by our government health care systems. It is time for someone to stand up and say that patients matter, that health care workers who care for these patients know best what is needed to care for them and to tell the bureacrats to stop micro-mismanaging events that they have no personal knowledge about. The treatment of Medicare patients is being micro-mismanaged by bureacrats from thousands of miles away."

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Key Messages

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

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Medicare needs adult supervision from Congress. Medicare systems need to be reformed.

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Health care insurance systems need to be reformed and optimized for the care of the actual patient who is ill and needs the medical attention.

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Technology and Aviation jobs need to be supported and expanded.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Washington District 2 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
Rick Larsen	Democratic Party	$2,450,006	$2,462,885	$247,436	As of December 31, 2024
Joshua Binda	Democratic Party	$4,635	$3,234	$1,901	As of June 30, 2024
Devin Hermanson	Democratic Party	$30,405	$30,405	$0	As of August 26, 2024
Edwin Stickle	Democratic Party	$4,125	$3,042	$350	As of July 17, 2024
Leif Johnson	Republican Party	$9,220	$9,275	$0	As of September 26, 2024
Daniel Miller	Republican Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Jason Call	Green Party	$69,556	$62,171	$5,660	As of September 30, 2024
Cody Hart	MAGA 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.

• District map
• Competitiveness
• Presidential elections
• State party control

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

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+9. This meant that in those two presidential elections, this district's results were 9 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Washington's 2nd the 130th most Democratic district nationally.

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 2nd based on 2024 district lines
Joe Biden	Donald Trump
60.1%	37.2%

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. The table below displays the Baseline data for this district.

Inside Elections Baseline for 2024
Democratic Baseline	Republican Baseline	Difference
57.0	42.3	D+14.7

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	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	Jay Inslee
Lieutenant Governor	Denny Heck
Secretary of State	Steve Hobbs
Attorney General	Bob Ferguson

State legislature

Washington State Senate

Party		As of NFebruary 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	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	$1,740.00	5/10/2024	Source
Washington	U.S. House	Unaffiliated candidates	1,000	N/A	8/2/2024	Source

See also

• Washington's 2nd Congressional District election, 2024
• United States House elections in Washington, 2024 (August 6 top-two primaries)
• United States House Democratic Party primaries, 2024
• United States House Republican Party primaries, 2024
• United States House of Representatives elections, 2024
• U.S. House battlegrounds, 2024

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Footnotes

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Washington's current delegation to the United States Congress

Senators

Maria Cantwell (D)

Patty Murray (D)

Representatives

District 1

Suzan DelBene (D)

District 2

Rick Larsen (D)

District 3

Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D)

District 4

Dan Newhouse (R)

District 5

Michael Baumgartner (R)

District 6

Emily Randall (D)

District 7

Pramila Jayapal (D)

District 8

Kim Schrier (D)

District 9

D. Adam Smith (D)

District 10

Marilyn Strickland (D)

Democratic Party (10)

Republican Party (2)

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