Welcome to Filing Week 2024!
Today through Friday, the Secretary of State and county elections officials will be accepting formal declarations of candidacy from Washingtonians who have decided they want to run for office at federal, state, and local levels.
This is a presidential year, which means we’ll have a huge number of statewide races, including for U.S. Senate, State Supreme Court, Governor, and eight other positions in our executive department. We’ll also be electing all ten of our U.S. House positions, most of our state legislative positions, and most county positions plus public utility district commission seats in those counties that have PUDs.
This post is the first in a series of Filing Week reports we’ll be bringing you at regular intervals until the close of filing at 5 PM on the final day of the workweek.
Key statistics from today
- 421 offices are on the ballot this year and 563 candidates have filed for them so far
- 24 candidates have filed for federal office
- 33 candidates have filed for statewide office
- 160 candidates have filed for legislative positions
- 346 candidates have filed for local and judicial positions
Notable filings
- Tiffany Smiley (R) has decided to take on U.S. Representative Dan Newhouse in Washington’s 4th Congressional District. See our story for more details.
- Brad Hawkins (R) accidentally filed for State Senate after having publicly declared that he would be running for county commission instead. He’s already withdrawn that filing.
- Bob Hagglund (R), who was running for Secretary of State, has switched to running for Lieutenant Governor. (Another Republican Secretary of State candidate, Phil Fortunato, has also pivoted away from challenging Steve Hobbs and is now a candidate for Insurance Commissioner.)
- Patrick “Pat” Harman (R) has filed for Lieutenant Governor as a “Liberal Republican.” Now there’s an oxymoron. (Under the Top Two system, candidates can use whatever label they’d like, even if it doesn’t correspond to a real political party or political movement).
- Michelle Adams has filed to run for Washington State Supreme Court, for the position being vacated by longtime Justice Susan Owens, who isn’t running again.
- Paul Giesick has filed to challenge Maria Cantwell for U.S. Senate. He identifies as a Democrat, but his website makes it clear he doesn’t agree with the Democratic Party’s stance on reproductive rights and other major issues.
Searchable table: Candidates who filed today
Below is a searchable table of all of the candidates who filed today. Names with a blue background identify as Democrats and names with a red background identify as Republicans. Note that the table is also sortable — just click or tap on a column header.
See the complete list of everyone who has filed
Want to see a comprehensive list of all candidate filings at the state level? You can do so at the Secretary of State’s website. As the week goes on, you can also browse our archive of Filing Week reports to see who filed for office at other intervals.