WA Filing Week 2024: A look at who’s filed in key races as of Monday evening

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.