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Citizens and the state legislature both have the ability to place new legislation, or legislation recently passed by the state legislature, on the ballot for a popular vote. Washington has three types of ballot measures that can be voted on in a general election: initiatives, referendums, and legislatively referred constitutional amendments.
Washington state elections in 2024 were held on November 5, 2024.Primary elections were held on August 6, 2024. [1]This was the first time since 1965 that Republicans have not held at least one executive office going into the election.
The 2024 Washington State Senate elections were held on November 5, 2024, with a nonpartisan blanket primary election held on August 6, 2024. Voters in 25 of the 49 state legislative districts elected Senators to the Washington State Senate. [1] The elections will coincide with other elections for federal, state, and local offices.
In the 2020 presidential election, Democrat Joe Biden won 34 of Washington State's legislative districts while Republican Donald Trump won 15. Going into the 2024 election, Republicans hold 10 House of Representatives seats in 5 different districts that Joe Biden won in 2020: district 12 (Biden +3); majority-minority district 14 (Biden +14); district 17 (Biden +6); district 25 (Biden +2); and ...
“The state of Washington does not directly prohibit ballot selfies. However, it is illegal to view another’s ballot for a purpose prohibited by law, such as vote buying,” according to the ...
The 2024 Washington Democratic presidential primary was held on March 12, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 111 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated to presidential candidates.
Although Washington was a Republican-leaning swing state until the 1980s, Democrats have won Washington in every presidential election starting in 1988 and have consistently done so by double digits since 2008. Washington is part of the Democratic-leaning West Coast, and was predicted to go comfortably to the Democratic Party in 2024.
(The Center Square) – In initial Tuesday night returns, Initiative 2066, which aims to ensure natural gas remains an energy choice in Washington state, was leading by a margin of 51.2% to 48.7%.