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Washington House of Representatives elections, 2024
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| Primary | August 6, 2024 |
| General | November 5, 2024 |
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Elections for the Washington House of Representatives took place in 2024. The general election was on November 5, 2024. The primary was August 6, 2024. The filing deadline was May 10, 2024.
Following the election, Democrats maintained a 59-39 majority.
The Washington House of Representatives was one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.
Party control
| Washington House of Representatives | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Party | As of November 5, 2024 | After November 6, 2024 | |
| Democratic Party | 58 | 59 | |
| Republican Party | 40 | 39 | |
| Vacant | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 98 | 98 | |
Candidates
General election
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RepublicanPrimary
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Washington
General election race ratings
The table below displays race ratings for each race in this chamber from CNalysis.
Campaign finance
- See also: Campaign finance
The section and tables below contain data from financial reports submitted to state agencies. Districts and elections are grouped in sections of 10. To view data for a district, click on the appropriate bar below to expand it. The data is gathered and made available by Transparency USA.
Incumbents who were not re-elected
Incumbents defeated in general elections
No incumbents lost in general elections.
Incumbents defeated in primaries
No incumbents lost in primaries. This was less than the average of 0.7 incumbent defeats per cycle from 2010 to 2022.
Retiring incumbents
Eighteen incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] ] The average number of retirements each election cycle from 2010 to 2022 was 14.9. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Washington. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Washington in 2024. Information below was calculated on May 30, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Washington had 48 contested state legislative primary elections in 2024. In elections from 2014 to 2022, the average number of contested state legislative primaries was 45.
There were 283 total candidates running for state legislature– including 227 who ran for the House and 56 who ran for the Senate. That is the lowest number of total candidates since 2014, when 266 candidates ran.
Among the candidates running for the House, 109 were affiliated with the Democratic Party and 102 were affiliated with the Republican Party, There were also 16 non-major party candidates who ran for seats in the House.
Among the candidates who ran for Senate, 30 were affiliated with the Democratic Party and 26 were affiliated with the Republican Party.
Washington uses a top-two primary system. This means all congressional and state-level primary candidates appear on the same ballot, and the top-two vote-getters move on to the general election, regardless of their party affiliation.
Twenty-four incumbents, or about 24.7% of all incumbents, faced primary challengers in 2024. This is the lowest number of incumbents in contested primaries since 2014, when 17 incumbents faced primary challengers.
Twenty-six incumbents– including nine Democrats and 17 Republicans– did not seek reelection in 2024. From 2010 to 2022, the average number of retirements was 19.7.
Washington has had a Democratic trifecta since 2018, after Democrats gained control of the State Senate in a 2017 special election. Since 1992, Washington has had 18 years of Democratic trifectas and no Republican trifectas.
As of May 2024, Democrats held a 58-40 majority in the 98-member State House and 29-20 majority in the 49-member State Senate.
Open seats
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Washington House of Representatives from 2010 to 2024.[2] It will be updated as information becomes available following the state’s candidate filing deadline.
| Open Seats in Washington House of Representatives elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 98 | 18 (18%) | 80 (82%) |
| 2022 | 98 | 21 (21%) | 77 (79%) |
| 2020 | 98 | 13 (13%) | 85 (87%) |
| 2018 | 98 | 14 (14%) | 84 (86%) |
| 2016 | 98 | 14 (14%) | 84 (86%) |
| 2014 | 98 | 9 (9%) | 89 (91%) |
| 2012 | 98 | 20 (20%) | 78 (80%) |
| 2010 | 98 | 16 (16%) | 82 (84%) |
Legislative referrals
- See also: Legislative referral
A legislative referral, or legislatively referred ballot measure, is a ballot measure that appears on the ballot due to a vote of the state legislature. A legislative referral can be a constitutional amendment, state statute, or bond issue.
As of the 2024 election, a referred constitutional amendment required a two-thirds (66.67%) vote in each chamber of the Washington State Legislature during one legislative session. That amounted to a minimum of 66 votes in the Washington House of Representatives and 33 votes in the Washington State Senate, assuming no vacancies. Amendments did not require the governor's signature to be referred to the ballot.
At the time of the 2024 election, Democrats held a 29-20 majority in the Senate and a 58-40 majority in the House. Democrats needed to win four Senate seats and eight House seats to be able to pass legislative referrals without Republican votes. Republicans needed to win 13 Senate seats and 26 House seats to have the same ability.
Process to become a candidate
See statutes: Chapter 29A.24 of the Washington Election Code
A candidate who desires to have his or her name printed on the ballot for election to an office other than president or vice president must complete and file a declaration of candidacy. The candidate must do the following:
- declare that he or she is a registered voter within the jurisdiction of the office for which he or she is filing (the candidate must include the address at which he or she is registered)
- indicate the position for which he or she is filing
- state a party preference, if the office is a partisan office
- indicate the amount of the filing fee accompanying the declaration of candidacy (the candidate may also indicate that he or she is filing a petition in lieu of the filing fee)
- sign the declaration of candidacy, stating that the information provided on the form is true and swearing or affirming that he or she will support the constitution and laws of the United States and the constitution and laws of the state of Washington[3]
The filing period for candidates begins on the first Monday in May and ends the following Friday in the year in which the office is scheduled to be voted upon. For statewide offices and state legislative districts, candidates file with the secretary of state. Candidates must also submit the declaration of candidacy to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission within one business day after the filing period has ended.[4][5]
A filing fee equal to 1 percent of the annual salary of the office at the time of filing must accompany the declaration of candidacy for any office with a fixed annual salary of more than $1,000. For offices that pay less than $1,000, candidates must pay a filing fee of $10.[6] A candidate who lacks sufficient assets or income at the time of filing may submit with his or her declaration of candidacy a filing fee petition. The petition must contain signatures from registered voters equal to the number of dollars of the filing fee.
For write-in candidates
Any person who desires to be a write-in candidate and have his or her votes counted at a primary or general election can file a declaration of candidacy with the Washington Secretary of State and the Washington Public Disclosure Commission up to 8:00 p.m. on the day of the primary or general election. A declaration of candidacy for a write-in candidate must be accompanied by a filing fee or a filing fee petition with the required signatures if filing within 18 days of the election (fees and signature requirements are the same as those summarized above).[7]
Qualifications
Section 7 of Article 2 of the Washington State Constitution states, "No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen."
Salaries and per diem
- See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries
| State legislative salaries, 2024[8] | |
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| Salary | Per diem |
| $60,191/year for senators. $61,997/year for representatives. | $202/day |
When sworn in
Washington legislators assume office the second Monday of January.[9]
Washington political history
Trifectas
A state government trifecta is a term that describes single-party government, when one political party holds the governor's office and has majorities in both chambers of the legislature in a state government.
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 |
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| 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[10] | 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 |
Presidential politics in Washington
2020
- See also: Presidential election, 2020
Presidential election in Washington, 2020
Candidate/Running mate |
% |
Popular votes |
Electoral votes |
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| Joe Biden/Kamala D. Harris (D) |
58.0
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2,369,612 | 12 |
 
| Donald Trump/Mike Pence (R) |
38.8
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1,584,651 | 0 | |
 
| Jo Jorgensen/Spike Cohen (L) |
2.0
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80,500 | 0 | |
 
| Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker (G) |
0.4
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18,289 | 0 | |
 
| Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman (Party for Socialism and Liberation) |
0.1
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4,840 | 0 | |
 
| Alyson Kennedy/Malcolm Jarrett (Socialist Workers Party) |
0.1
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2,487 | 0 | |
| Other write-in votes |
0.7
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27,252 | 0 | ||
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Total votes: 4,087,631 |
2016
- See also: Presidential election, 2016
| U.S. presidential election, Washington, 2016 | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic |  Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine |
52.5% | 1,742,718 | 12 | |
| Republican | Donald Trump/Mike Pence | 36.8% | 1,221,747 | 0 | |
| Libertarian | Gary Johnson/Bill Weld | 4.9% | 160,879 | 0 | |
| Green | Jill Stein/Ajamu Baraka | 1.8% | 58,417 | 0 | |
| Socialist Workers | Alyson Kennedy/Osborne Hart | 0.1% | 4,307 | 0 | |
| Socialism and Liberation | Gloria Estela La Riva/Eugene Puryear | 0.1% | 3,523 | 0 | |
| Constitution | Darrell Lane Castle/Scott Bradley | 0.5% | 17,623 | 0 | |
| - | Other/Write-in | 3.3% | 107,805 | 0 | |
| Total Votes | 3,317,019 | 12 | |||
| Election results via: Federal Election Commission | |||||
Washington presidential election results (1900-2024)
- 18 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 | 2024 |
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| Winning Party | R | R | R | P[11] | 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 | D |
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Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Washington Election Code, "Chapter 29A.24.031," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Washington Election Code, "Chapter 29A.24.050," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Washington Election Code, "Chapter 29A.24.070," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Washington Election Code, "Chapter 29A.24.091," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ Washington Election Code, "Chapter 29A.24.311," accessed April 29, 2025
- ↑ National Conference of State Legislatures, "2024 Legislator Compensation," August 21, 2024
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "RCW 44.04.021 Commencement of terms of office," accessed February 17, 2021
- ↑ Democrats gained full control of the state Senate after a special election on November 7, 2017.
- ↑ Progressive Party
