Dow Constantine

Dow Constantine has won 2 elections in Washington (2017–2021), most recently as King County Executive.

  • No party listed

No contact details on file. The election returns this page is built from carry no contact details for this office.

Source WA Secretary of State official election results · as of 2026-09-16

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Who funds this seat

Campaign finance reported to the Public Disclosure Commission. The record and the PDC share no identifier, so this is a join — on surname, given name, chamber and district for a legislator, and on the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else. Only where one person fits.

$441K

raised, 2025 cycle

$468K

spent

$389

average contribution

Total divided by 1,132 reported contributors.

$6.0M

raised across 5 campaigns

Every cycle we hold for this filer, not a career total — earlier campaigns may predate our coverage.

By campaign

Reported campaign finance by cycle
Cycle Raised Spent Contributors
2025 $440,673 $467,692 1,132
2021 $1,965,669 $1,938,650 4,295
2017 $1,350,823 $1,646,848 3,015
2013 $977,081 $976,681 2,670
2009 $1,291,538 $1,291,693 6,130

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
SEIU Healthcare 775NW Seattle $2,400
Charles Marcus Seattle $2,000

Individual contributors, by stated employer

Private individuals are not named here unless their own public conduct already makes them a public figure; their giving appears aggregated by the employer they stated. The full itemised record is public at the PDC.

Individual contributors, grouped by stated employer
Employer stated by contributors Contributors Amount
Chihuly Studio 1 $2,000
W2A 1 $2,000
Barbee Mill Co. 1 $2,000
Race Track LLC 1 $2,000
Trilogy Partnership 1 $2,000
No employer stated 8 $16,000

Colleagues who gave on the same day

Three or more people sharing an employer, giving to one of this member’s campaigns on a single date. Money arriving together is the pattern; a shared employer on its own is not. Across every campaign we hold, not just the most recent.

Same-day contributions from colleagues at one employer
Date Cycle Employer Donors Total
2010-06-07 2013 KING COUNTY 34 $4,050
2012-05-18 2013 KING COUNTY 25 $2,450
2011-06-13 2013 KING COUNTY 22 $3,150
2013-05-13 2013 KING COUNTY 22 $2,850
2015-05-15 2017 KING COUNTY 18 $2,500
2021-05-20 2021 King County 17 $2,395
2011-11-15 2013 KING COUNTY 17 $1,600
2019-05-17 2021 KING COUNTY 15 $2,450
2014-05-12 2017 KING COUNTY 14 $1,900
2009-11-18 2009 KING COUNTY 14 $951
2016-05-20 2017 KING COUNTY 13 $1,875
2010-05-03 2013 PUGET SOUND ENERGY 13 $1,270

This shows money arriving together, not who arranged it. An office collection, a fundraiser one colleague hosted, a firm’s partners each writing a cheque on the day they were asked — all three look identical in the filings, and all three are legal. Nothing here says the employer knew, still less that it directed anyone. The record gives the date and the shared workplace; the reason is not in it.

Last checked 2026-09-16

Employers behind more than one donor

Across the whole cycle rather than a single day. Weaker than the table above, and included because a slow accumulation from one workplace is still worth being able to see.

Employers with more than one contributor this cycle
Employer Donors Total
King County 76 $29,155
Trilogy Partnership 2 $4,000
Pacific Public Affairs 4 $2,400
Desimone Consulting Group 3 $2,100
CG Systems LLC 2 $2,000
Segale Properties 2 $2,000
Foster Garvey PC 2 $2,000
Pacifica Law Group 4 $1,950
Amazon 3 $1,600
CBE Strategic 2 $1,500

Only 37.9% of named donors stated an employer. The field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so both tables show what we can see rather than everything that exists. Treat the counts as a floor. Occupations reported in the employer box — “retired”, “self-employed”, “homemaker” — are excluded, because they are not a shared workplace.

Last checked 2026-09-16

This filing was matched, not looked up. The election returns and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Dow Constantine to PDC filer CONSJ 072 because the surname, the given name and the office won (King County Executive) all agree, in the county it was won in, and because only one person fits. If that is the wrong person, tell us at corrections@washingtonindependents.org and we will unpublish this section while we check — see Corrections.

Last checked 2026-09-16

Spent independently, for and against · not their money

Money spent about this member by committees that are barred by law from coordinating with them. It is not their money, they cannot return it, and it is not in the total above. Spending for someone is not money from them, and the two sides are never subtracted from each other.

  1. Spent supporting

    stance filed as “for”

    $166,761
  2. Spent opposing

    stance filed as “against” · not subtracted from the row above

    none filed
  • King County Progress for · $164,200 · 2021
  • Fuse Votes for · $2,561 · 2021

Sources WA PDC C-3 contribution reports · C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports · as of 2026-09-16 · filer CONSJ 072 · key office won + county it was won in — refused where more than one person fits · n 6 independent-expenditure filings name this candidate id · note independent expenditures are joined on the PDC candidate id, not on a name; they are a separate ledger, never netted against each other and never added to the committee’s own total

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What this page will not compute

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What the money bought
Where a filing is matched we show what was raised and from whom. Connecting that to how the member voted would be a causal claim from two records that were never linked, and campaign money is not the only thing that moves a vote.
A complete funding career
Cycles are shown back to 2009. A member who served before that has earlier campaigns we do not hold, so the career total is a floor rather than a lifetime figure.
Employers we cannot see
The employer field is filled in by the donor and left blank more often than not, so the bundling table shows employers we can see rather than every one that exists.
Whether a difference was a broken promise
Where a stated position and a vote differ we show both records and say only that they differ. Why is not in either one — an amendment, a procedural vote, or a bill that changed under the member all produce the same pair.
A complete set of statements
Positions are found and cited one at a time by a person. An empty or short list means nobody has done that reading, not that a member has said little.
Advertising
Meta’s ad library and PDC independent expenditures targeting this member are both public and neither is loaded.
What a divergent vote means
We can say a member voted against their party’s majority on a given roll call. Whether that was principle, a local interest, a drafting objection or a trade is not in the record, and the count is not a measure of independence.
Committee influence
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A member’s response
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