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Spokane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Washington. As of the 2020 census , its population was 539,339, making it the fourth-most populous county in Washington. [ 1 ] The largest city and county seat is Spokane , [ 2 ] the second largest city in the state after Seattle .
Washington ratified its constitution and held its first state elections in 1889, the year it was admitted to the union as a state. It established the positions of governor, lieutenant governor, Secretary of State, attorney general, state treasurer, state auditor, Commissioner of Public Lands, and Superintendent of Public Instruction.
When the conservative National Opposition Union won power in 1990, Brown expressed worry that the new leaders would walk back the partially state-run command economy, replacing it with a more conservative, market-based economy. [9] Brown also worked as a professor in organizational leadership at Gonzaga University from 2001 until 2012.
More than 60% of Spokane County voters shot it down. Conservative voters in the county's reddest areas didn't like it; liberal voters in Spokane's bluest neighborhoods didn't like it either. Law ...
Spokane Valley Mayor Pam Haley and her fellow city council member Al Merkel round out the crowd of conservative candidates with 13.3% and 11.4%. Democratic candidate Paige Scott has received 11.9% ...
May 14—Friday was the deadline to file for political office in the Aug. 6 primary in Washington, and Monday was the deadline for candidates to withdraw from races if they changed their minds.
The 2023 Spokane mayoral election was held on November 7, 2023, to elect the mayor of Spokane in the U.S. state of Washington.The election was officially nonpartisan. Incumbent Republican mayor Nadine Woodward, who ran for a second term, and former Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown advanced to the general election as the top two candidates in the top-two primary on August
Nov. 7—It was beginning to feel almost like a cycle: a conservative in one election, then a progressive in the next two years later. Now, for the first time in more than a decade, northeast ...