Washington State · public record
Every page on this site is built from a public filing — nothing is written by hand, and nothing appears without the document that states it. This is what the archive holds.
Source Counted from the archive itself at render time; connection census from the pipeline import · as of 2026-08-12
connections between Washington political records, every one of them graded by how it was made.
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
None of these were hidden. They were only spread across enough separate filings that nobody had added them up.
47.1% of bills never got a hearing
In the latest biennium, nearly half of all bills died without a single public hearing — the most common way a bill ends.
69.8% of races were uncontested
Most Washington offices are settled before the ballot is printed, with one candidate or none.
641 reused proposition numbers
The same “Proposition 1” appears on many ballots at once, which is why a number alone will not identify a measure.
Source Computed from the assembled archive; each figure links to the report that itemises it
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 2026-08-19
Three habits will tell you how far to trust any figure here.
Washington Independents is a public-records project. It takes no position on any candidate, party or ballot measure; it publishes the filings and the arithmetic, and names its sources on every page.
The publisher of record will be listed here when the project’s political committee is registered with the Public Disclosure Commission.