Washington State · 2026 election cycle, as filed
has been contributed to Washington campaigns this cycle so far. The cycle is not over, so this is a floor and it will grow.
$63.7M
contributed to campaigns
Money given to a candidate or measure committee, which has to report every dollar of it.
$4.3M
spent independently
Spent about candidates by committees that answer to none of them.
2.2×
against 2014
2014 to 2024, contributions only. Independent expenditure filings are not in the record before 2015, so a total-spending comparison against 2014 would measure our coverage rather than the money.
| Cycle | Contributed | Share of the largest cycle | Outside spending |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | $106M | not in the record | |
| 2016 | $165.2M | not in the record | |
| 2018 | $180.6M | not in the record | |
| 2020 | $147.4M | $33.3M | |
| 2022 | $138.7M | $32.4M | |
| 2024 | $232.8M | $52M | |
| 2026 (in progress) | $63.7M | $4.3M |
Even cycles only, and the current one is unfinished. Washington votes on state and federal offices in even years and local ones in odd, and the two are not the same quantity — putting them on one axis would show a rise and fall that is only which offices were on the ballot. Where a cycle says outside spending is not in the record, that is our coverage and not a cycle in which nobody spent independently.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Source Public Disclosure Commission C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure reports; C-6 independent expenditure filings · as of 2026-07-31 · newest filing 2026-07-27
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Five organisations account for $9.1M of it, and 2 have already given more than they gave in the whole of 2024.
Ranked by total given to Washington committees this cycle. Each row sums that giver’s filed contributions. We publish no total for “each side” — sorting these organisations into sides would be our opinion rather than their filing.
| Contributor | Type | This cycle | 2024 total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rivian Automotive, LLC | Business | $4.7M | no filing |
| Airbnb, Inc | Political Action Committee | $2.1M | $27,900 |
| Washington Federation of State Employees | Union | $1.1M | $991K |
| HEYWOOD BRIAN | Individual | $609K | $849K |
| SEIU 775 Ballot Fund | Business | $603K | $9.4M |
| SEIU Initiative Fund | Political Action Committee | $550K | $934K |
| GOPAC Election Fund | Business | $538K | $140K |
| Jobs PAC | Political Action Committee | $516K | $1.6M |
Aggregate rows are money, not organisations. The PDC reports sub-threshold giving as a lump labelled “small contributions” or “miscellaneous receipts”. Two of those rank inside the top five this cycle by amount. They are in the totals above and are excluded from this list, because a table of who gave should not contain a bookkeeping category.
Last checked 2026-07-31
Source Public Disclosure Commission C-3 contribution and C-4 expenditure reports; C-6 independent expenditure filings · as of 2026-07-31 · top 8 shown
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The largest spenders of the 2024 cycle, from their own expenditure filings. Ballot measures dominate the top of the table — and the scale against an ordinary campaign is the finding.
218×
what the median state legislative campaign spent ($76,841) — the single committee No on 2117 spent that many times over in 2024
Median over every state legislative candidacy that cycle reporting more than $1,000 spent.
| Committee | Kind, as registered | Spent |
|---|---|---|
| No on 2117 · 2117 | ballot measure committee | $16.7M |
| No On 2124 · 2124 | ballot measure committee | $13.4M |
| Let's Go Washington (Sponsored by Brian Heywood) · I-2066 | ballot measure committee | $10.3M |
| SEIU 775 BALLOT FUND · I-2109, I-2117, and I-2124 | ballot measure committee | $9.6M |
| Evergreen Values – Democratic Governors Association | political committee | $8.5M |
Source WA PDC expenditure filings, C-1 registrations · as of 2026-07-31
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A campaign can turn a contribution away. Independent expenditures — money spent for or against a candidate without coordinating with anyone — cannot be declined, and answer to nobody on a ballot.
| Committee | Filings | Outside spending |
|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Values – Democratic Governors Association | 26 | $16.3M |
| NEW DIRECTION PAC | 290 | $7.7M |
| WA Wins Sponsored by The Leadership Council | 69 | $3.9M |
| FIX WASHINGTON SPONSORED BY REAGAN FUND | 484 | $3.0M |
| SOUTHWEST WA PRIORITIES Sponsored by Kennedy Fund | 39 | $2.6M |
Source WA PDC independent expenditure and electioneering filings · as of 2026-07-31 · 2024 cycle · filings before 2015 are not in the record
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Here is everything the money above was spent to win a place on. For most of the offices on it, nobody had to spend anything at all.
69.8%
of the races on Washington’s 2025 general election ballot had exactly one candidate
A race counts as uncontested when exactly one candidate appeared on the ballot. Write-in lines and ballot measures are excluded.
The full report names every seat, county by county — and what filing for one takes.
Source WA Secretary of State certified general election results
connections between Washington political records, every one of them graded by how it was made.
01
Most political databases give you a line between two names and let you decide what it means. This one grades the line, and the mark is the same everywhere on the site, so you can tell at a glance how much weight a link carries.
3,122,774
A document states it outright: this member voted this way on this bill, this committee paid this vendor this amount. Nothing was inferred to produce it.
99.4% of all connections
18,509
Two documents put together on a stated field — a filer id, a bill number, an office and a district. The page always names the key, so you can check the join rather than trust it.
0.6% of all connections
1,543
A shared employer and a shared date. Published because it is on file, and marked as going no further — you cannot travel through one of these to reach a third record.
0% of all connections
And 45 we would not draw. Three people named Jordan Nguyen are three people until a document says otherwise. Each of these would have made the archive look bigger and denser, and each was a guess — a name that matched two filers, a measure that matched two pamphlet entries, a bill slug with no bill behind it.
Last checked 2026-08-12
Source Counted from this site’s own published pages · as of 2026-08-12
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Every figure above is assembled from these pages, and each of them carries the source it was read from and the date it was read.
Who represents an address, and what the seat has cost to win.
3,003 pages
Everyone who has won an election in Washington — what they won, and where a filing matches, who funded it.
13,879 pages
What was introduced, what was heard, and what died without a hearing.
78,547 pages
Who funds them, where the money goes, and how concentrated it is.
581 pages
Who pays to be heard between elections, and which firms they pay to do it.
8,785 pages
Everyone who filed, and what their campaign reported.
710 pages
Source Counted from this site’s own published pages · as of 2026-08-12