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The 2022 Washington State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial United States elections. Washington state voters elected state senators in 25 of the state's 49 Senate districts . The other 24 state senators were not up for re-election until the next biennial election in 2024.
The 2020 Washington State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. Washington voters elected state senators in 26 of the 49 state legislative districts. Elections to the Washington State Senate were held on November 3, 2020.
The state constitution allows both houses to write their own rules of procedure (article II, section 9) and to elect their own officers (article II, section 10) with the proviso that the lieutenant governor may preside in each house and has a deciding vote in the Senate, but that the Senate may choose a "temporary president" in the absence of the lieutenant governor.
The Olympian and McClatchy’s other Washington news sites — The News Tribune, The Bellingham Herald and the Tri-City Herald — will host a free question-and-answer livestream with state ...
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The initiative was brought to the state legislature by Let's Go Washington, a Redmond-based political action committee founded by businessman and hedge-fund manager Brian Heywood. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The initiative would have repeal SB 5096 , which created a 7% capital gains tax on the sale of long-term capital assets (i.e. stocks, bonds and business ...
Twenty-five of the forty-nine seats in the Washington State Senate were up for election. Democrats kept a 28–21 majority in the Senate. Democrats kept a 28–21 majority in the Senate. Senators retiring this election were Senators Randi Becker (R-Olympia), [ 28 ] Maureen Walsh (R-Walla Walla), [ 29 ] and Hans Zeiger (R-Puyallup). [ 30 ]
Goodspaceguy ran in the 2016 gubernatorial election in Washington, [16] winning 13,191 votes in the primary but not advancing. [17] Goodspaceguy was running for King County Executive in the 2017 election, [ 18 ] and filed again in 2021 to run for the same office.