The Green Papers: Washington 2009 General Election
This page is for offices up for election in 2009. Find 2010 elections here.
 
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Elections for Statewide offices and Congress
Electoral Votes:11(2.04% of 538)
Governor:1 
Senators:2(Electoral Classes 1 and 3)
2002-2010 Representatives:9(2.07% of 435)
2000 Census:5,908,684 (2.10% of 281,998,273)
Estimated Voting age population (November 2000):4,368,000
Registered Voters (November 2000):3,335,714
Capital:Olympia
 

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Washington State and Local Government


Washington State’s Top Two Primary

  • The two candidates who receive the most votes in the primary and receive at least 1% of the votes cast qualify for the general election.
  • Each candidate for partisan office may state a political party that he or she prefers. A candidate’s preference does not imply that the candidate is nominated or endorsed by the party, or that the party approves of or associates with that candidate.
  • To trigger a mandatory machine recount, the difference between the top two vote-getters must be less than 2,000 votes and less than 0.5% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates.
  • To trigger a manual recount in a statewide election, the difference between the top two vote-getters must be less than 1,000 votes and less 0.25% of the total number of votes cast for both candidates.
 
           

U.S. Senate  6 year term. No Term Limit. 111th Senate  Senate Electoral Classes

Class 1 Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2006
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Class 3 Democratic Senator Patty Murray
First elected: 1992; re-elected: 1998, 2004.
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012. Term Limit: None, All Governors

  Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire
First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2008
Chair up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Lieutenant Governor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Democratic Lieutenant Governor Brad Owen
First elected: 1996; re-elected: 2000, 2004, 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

111th U.S. House of Representatives  2 year term, Election Cycle 2006, 2008. No Term Limit. 111th House
Partisan Composition (primary disposition):
6 Democratic (5 Undetermined, 1 Open);
3 Republican (3 Undetermined)

CD 1
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Democratic Congressman Jay R. Inslee
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 2
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Democratic Congressman Rick R. Larsen
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 3
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Democratic Congressman Brian N. Baird
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010
Open Seat - 9 December 2009: Announced his retirement at the end of his term-- will not run for re-election.

CD 4
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Republican Congressman Doc Hastings
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 5
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Republican Congressman Cathy Ann McMorris Rodgers
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 6
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Democratic Congressman Norman D. "Norm" Dicks
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 7
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Democratic Congressman James A. "Jim" McDermott
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 8
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Republican Congressman Dave Reichert
First elected: 2004
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

CD 9
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Democratic Congressman David Adam "Adam" Smith
Seat up for election: Tuesday 2 November 2010

Secretary of State  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004, 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Attorney General  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna
First elected: 2004; re-elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Treasurer  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Democratic Treasurer Jim McIntire
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Auditor  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Democratic Auditor Brian Sonntag
First elected: 1992; re-elected 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Commissioner of Public Lands  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Democratic Public Lands Commissioner Peter James Goldmark
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Insurance Commissioner  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Democratic Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler
First elected: 2000; re-elected: 2004, 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012

Superintendent of Public Instruction  4 year term, Election Cycle: 2008, 2012

  Nonpartisan Public Instruction Superintendent Randy Dorn
First elected: 2008
Seat up for election: Tuesday 6 November 2012
 All candidates for Superintendent of Public Instruction appear on the Primary ballot. If any candidate receives more than 50% of the vote in the Primary, he or she goes on the General Election ballot alone. If no candidate receives a majority, the two candidates receiving the highest number of votes go on the General Election ballot. [RCW 29A.36.171]

Political Parties    Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such.

Major Parties
  Democratic (affiliates): 14 incumbents
  Republican: 5 incumbents
Independents
  Nonpartisan: 1 incumbent
 
Candidates running under the banner of more than one party are counted towards each party's total. A candidate who has lost a primary or is apparently no longer a candidate is not counted.

Notes

Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot.
 
FEC indicates the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Campaign Finance Summary "Total Receipts" for candidates for Federal Office.

 


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  Close Contests Summary - Decision by 2% or less  
  Contests Where No Candidate Received a Majority  
 
2009 Primaries and Runoffs for Statewide offices/Congress
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  Change in Representation in U.S. House by REGION and Subregion between 2000 and 2002  
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  Political Party Floor Leaders in the Congress of the United States