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The State Senate Chamber of the Washington State Capitol. The Washington State Legislature is the state's legislative branch. The state legislature is bicameral and is composed of a lower House of Representatives and an upper State Senate. The state is divided into 49 legislative districts of equal population, each of which elects two ...
Pages in category "Government of Washington (state)" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Washington State government consists of more than 190 agencies, departments, and commissions. The main administrative departments are: [1] Agriculture (WSDA); Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP)
The location of the state of Washington in the United States of America The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Washington: Washington is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States , and is named after George Washington , the first President of the United States (it is the ...
Vancouver (/ v æ n ˈ k uː v ər / ⓘ van-KOO-vər) is a city on the north bank of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, located in Clark County.Founded in 1825 and incorporated in 1857, Vancouver had a population of 190,915 as of the 2020 census, making it the fourth-most populous city in Washington state.
Washington was named after President George Washington by an act of the United States Congress during the creation of Washington Territory in 1853; the territory was to be named "Columbia", for the Columbia River and the Columbia District, but Kentucky representative Richard H. Stanton found the name too similar to the District of Columbia (the national capital, itself containing the city of ...
Article IV, Section 4, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution tasks the federal government with assuring that each state's government is so organized. [1] All state governments are modeled after the federal government and consist of three branches (although the three-branch structure is not Constitutionally required): executive, legislative ...
State representatives are elected to two-year terms, and two from each of 49 legislative districts in separate elections. While the U.S. state of Washington is considered a solidly Democratic state, it mainly elected Republican candidates during its first forty years of statehood. It currently holds the longest streak of Democratic governors in ...