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Washington’s 48th Legislative District

Washington’s 48th Legislative District is represented by State Senator Vandana Slatter, State Representative Osman Salahuddin and State Representative Amy Walen. It covers part of King County, including Bellevue, Clyde Hill and Hunts Point.

  • 3 seats · 1 senate, 2 house
  • King County
  • Bellevue
  • Clyde Hill
  • Hunts Point
  • Congressional district 1
  • Congressional district 9
  • 142 precincts
  • Delegation: 3 D Democratic

Source WA Legislature roster; PDC filings; WA SoS results + precinct export · as of 2026-09-09

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Who represents this district

Every Washington legislative district elects one senator and two representatives. All three serve the same geography; House seats are numbered Position 1 and Position 2 and are not sub-areas.

Source WA Legislature member roster (API) · as of 2026-09-09 · complete for 3 of 3 members

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What this district covers

Counties
King — 1 county, wholly contained
Cities
Bellevue, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Kirkland, Medina, Redmond and Yarrow Point — derived from precinct names; the district may cover part of a city rather than all of it
Congressional
District 1 and District 9 — the district spans more than one
Precincts
142 — voting precincts in the Secretary of State export
Boundary map
Not published on this page. We link the state’s authoritative plan rather than redraw it: Washington State Redistricting Commission — 2022 legislative plan. — the precinct export tells us which precincts are in the district, not where their edges run

Source Secretary of State precinct-to-district export, 2022 plan · as of 2026-09-09 · how cities are derived

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Current race

Candidates who have filed with the Public Disclosure Commission for seats in this district, grouped by seat.

Senate

2 candidates filed

  • Patricia E Kuderer —No party listed
  • Vandana Slatter incumbent DDemocratic

Primary results & money for this seat →

House Pos. 1

2 candidates filed

  • Jeffery Lee Poppe RRepublican
  • Osman Salahuddin incumbent DDemocratic

Primary results & money for this seat →

House Pos. 2

2 candidates filed

  • Amy Walen incumbent DDemocratic
  • Jessica Forsythe DDemocratic

Primary results & money for this seat →

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings · as of 2026-09-09 · seats with records 3 of 3

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Election history

General election results by seat. Uncontested marks a race where only one candidate appeared on the ballot.

House Position 1

48th LD, House Position 1 — general election results
Year Candidate Party Votes Share Result
2025 Osman Salahuddin Democratic D 21,669 70.1% won
2025 Dennis Ellis Republican R 9,215 29.8% —
2024 Vandana Slatter Democratic D 39,645 68.3% won
2024 Lynn Trinh Republican R 18,330 31.6% —
2022 Vandana Slatter Democratic D 33,914 96.4% won · uncontested
2020 Vandana Slatter Democratic D 49,426 71.3% won
2020 Victor H. Bishop Republican R 19,884 28.7% —
2018 Vandana Slatter Democratic D 40,408 100.0% won · uncontested

House Position 2

48th LD, House Position 2 — general election results
Year Candidate Party Votes Share Result
2024 Amy Walen Democratic D 43,664 95.7% won · uncontested
2022 Amy Walen Democratic D 33,557 96.3% won · uncontested
2020 Amy Walen Democratic D 49,213 70.9% won
2020 Tim J. Hickey Republican R 20,115 29.0% —
2018 Amy Walen Democratic D 34,143 73.0% won
2018 Cindi Bright Democratic D 12,628 27.0% —

Senate

48th LD, Senate — general election results
Year Candidate Party Votes Share Result
2025 Vandana Slatter Democratic D 16,866 58.0% won
2025 Amy Walen Democratic D 11,841 40.7% —
2022 Patty Kuderer Democratic D 33,208 70.6% won
2022 Michelle Darnell Republican R 13,795 29.3% —
2018 Patty Kuderer Democratic D 33,533 65.0% won
2018 Rodney Tom Democratic D 18,027 35.0% —

Source Secretary of State certified general election results · as of 2026-09-09 · key — = value absent from source export · reconciliation method

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Connected records

Every link this page draws to another entity, grouped by how well a document supports it. Nothing here is our inference.

On the record

  • SEAT HELD BY — 48-SENATE

    Vandana Slatter DDemocratic

    Washington Secretary of State, certified general election canvass

  • SEAT HELD BY — 48-HOUSE-POS-1

    Osman Salahuddin DDemocratic

    Washington Secretary of State, certified general election canvass

  • SEAT HELD BY — 48-HOUSE-POS-2

    Amy Walen DDemocratic

    Washington Secretary of State, certified general election canvass

  • FILED FOR — CURRENT GENERAL

    6 declarations of candidacy · across the seats in this district

    Public Disclosure Commission, candidate filings feed, read 2026-09-09

Same detail on two records — not a relationship

SHARES A BOUNDARY OR A COUNTY

12 districts touch this one in the state redistricting plan. If your address is near a district edge, check these — the list is a navigation aid, nothing more.

Adjacency on a map is not a political relationship. Neighbouring districts share a line drawn by a redistricting commission and nothing else on file; this observation cannot be used as a step toward another one.

Nothing on file

No composite edge is published on this page: nothing here required us to join two documents on a key. Money, votes and committee records for these members are not yet loaded, so no edge of those kinds is asserted — their absence here means we have not read them, not that they do not exist.

Sources WA Legislature member roster · PDC candidate filings · Secretary of State district and precinct files · as of 2026-09-09 · rows 4 filed, 0 composite, 12 adjacency · tier assigned here from the edge catalog — legislative districts are not yet nodes in the entity graph, so no edge row backs these counts

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How to run for one of these seats

This is an office, not a possession. Every seat here is filled by whoever files for it and wins, and the requirements are the same for everyone.

Filing requirements and next election by seat
Seat Term Next election Filing opens
State Senator, District 48 4 years 2030 May 2030
State Representative, District 48, Position 1 2 years 2026 May 2026
State Representative, District 48, Position 2 2 years 2026 May 2026

1 form

declaration of candidacy

Filed with the Secretary of State, online or on paper. It states your name as it will appear on the ballot, the office, and that you are qualified.

1 week

the filing window, every May

Monday to Friday, closing at 4:00pm. There is no late filing: miss it and the seat is decided without you.

0

signatures, endorsements, prior offices

You must be a registered voter living in the district on the day you file. That is the entire qualification, and no party is asked about you.

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only once money moves

A campaign committee and PDC reporting are required within two weeks of raising or spending anything. Raise nothing and you file nothing.

What the job is. The Legislature sits for 105 days in odd-numbered years and 60 days in even ones, and the work does not stop when the session does — committee days, constituent casework and district meetings run through the interim. Someone deciding whether to file needs that more than they need anyone’s opinion of the incumbent.

Reporting follows money, not candidacy. Registering with the Public Disclosure Commission and filing contribution reports is triggered by raising and spending, not by putting your name in. A campaign that stays under the mini-reporting threshold files a short form and nothing more.

We cannot yet tell you what filing costs. The fee is one percent of the office’s annual salary (RCW 29A.24.091 — one percent of the annual salary of the office), which makes it a specific dollar amount rather than a rule — and a page that makes you compute your own filing fee has not told you the filing fee. Legislative salaries are set by the Citizens’ Commission on Salaries for Elected Officials and we do not hold that schedule, so the figure is missing rather than estimated. A candidate who cannot pay it may file a petition of signatures instead.

This section appears on every office page on this site, contested or not, filled or vacant. Its presence is not a comment on whoever holds the seat, and we do not say whether a seat is winnable — that would be a prediction, and this page carries records.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-09-09

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Common questions

Who represents Washington's 48th Legislative District?
The 48th Legislative District is represented by State Senator Vandana Slatter (D), State Representative Osman Salahuddin (D, Position 1) and State Representative Amy Walen (D, Position 2).
What cities are in the 48th Legislative District?
The district lies entirely within King County. It covers part of Bellevue, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Kirkland, Medina and Redmond. It contains 142 voting precincts.
Which congressional district covers the 48th Legislative District?
The 48th Legislative District overlaps Washington congressional district 1 and Washington congressional district 9. Legislative and congressional boundaries are drawn separately and do not line up.
How many state legislators does each Washington district have?
Three — one state senator and two state representatives, elected to Position 1 and Position 2. All three represent the same geography; the positions are not sub-areas.
When are Washington legislative elections held?
In even-numbered years. All 98 House seats are up every two years; Senate seats run on staggered four-year terms.

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“Washington’s 48th Legislative District,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-09, accessed 2026-09-25. https://washingtonindependents.org/district/ld-48/

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Where this page comes from

Every figure above is read from a primary source and rebuilt on a schedule. Nothing here is modelled or inferred; where a source is silent the page says so rather than filling the gap.

Washington State Legislature member roster
Officeholder names, party, email and phone. Contact details are incomplete for some members; where they are missing the card says so.
Washington Secretary of State districts and precincts export
Counties, cities and precinct counts. Cities are derived from precinct names, so a district may cover part of a city rather than all of it.
Washington Secretary of State certified general election canvass
Election history: candidate, party, votes, share, and whether the race was uncontested.
Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings
Declarations of candidacy for the current cycle. A seat with no row means we found no filing, not that no one has filed.
Pipeline data source, as recorded at build
WA Legislature roster; PDC filings; WA SoS results + precinct export