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

Wel­come to our con­tin­u­ing cov­er­age of Fil­ing Week 2024!

Until this 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 sec­ond 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

• 76 can­di­dates had filed on the sec­ond day of fil­ing as of this post’s last update
• 421 offices are on the bal­lot this year and 693 can­di­dates have filed for them so far
• 37 can­di­dates have filed for fed­er­al office
• 39 can­di­dates have filed for statewide office
• 188 can­di­dates have filed for leg­isla­tive positions
• 429 can­di­dates have filed for local and judi­cial positions

Notable filings

• Imraan Sid­diqi, the Exec­u­tive Direc­tor of CAIR Wash­ing­ton (and “a promi­nent voice for jus­tice in the Amer­i­can Mus­lim com­mu­ni­ty,” accord­ing his biog­ra­phy) has filed to run for Con­gress as a Demo­c­rat against Demo­c­ra­t­ic U.S. Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schri­er (who is Jew­ish). Sid­diqi list­ed a cam­paign domain which points to a Square­space Account Expired page, but does have an active Act­Blue fundrais­ing page which sup­port­ers are pro­mot­ing on Twit­ter.
• Dave Reichert, the Repub­li­can fron­trun­ner for Gov­er­nor of Wash­ing­ton State accord­ing to our polling, filed his paper­work to run today. 
• Raul Gar­cia, Sen­a­tor Cantwell’s like­ly Repub­li­can gen­er­al elec­tion oppo­nent, also filed today. Gar­cia has the endorse­ment of both the Main­stream Repub­li­cans of Wash­ing­ton and the Wash­ing­ton State Repub­li­can Par­ty — one of the few statewide races where both are aligned. Gar­cia ran for gov­er­nor in 2020 but came up short.
• Dan Matthews filed as a Repub­li­can for Lieu­tenant Governor. 
• State Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Kud­er­er, the Demo­c­ra­t­ic fron­trun­ner for Insur­ance Com­mis­sion­er and a spon­sor of NPI’s research, filed today. 

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.