Which Proposition 1 is this?

Proposition 1 on the 2023 ballot in Spokane County, Washington. Several different measures can carry the same number on one county ballot, so the year, the county and the body asking are all needed to identify one.

Where do these results come from?

The Washington Secretary of State’s certified election results. We publish the certified canvass, not election-night returns.

Why is there no argument for or against here?

Washington publishes committee-written for and against statements for most local measures. We have not ingested them. Showing one side without the other would be worse than showing neither.

Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023

Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023 was on the 2023 ballot in Spokane County, Washington. It passed with 74.7% voting yes, on 75 votes cast.

This page is not a recommendation. It sets the result, the arguments filed by both campaigns, and the money behind each side next to each other, from the same sources, on one page.

2023
Spokane County
City Measure
Proposition 1
Passed

Source WA Secretary of State official election results · as of 2026-09-05

The result

74.7%

voted yes

Passed

certified outcome

votes cast on this measure

Yes 74.7% · No 25.3%

Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-09-05 · note certified canvass, not election-night returns

What it costs you

We cannot calculate what this measure costs a household. That figure needs the levy rate per thousand dollars of assessed value, and the result export does not carry it — it records how people voted, not what they were voting on. We will not estimate it: a wrong number on a household tax bill is worse than no number. The rate is published in the county assessor’s levy certification and in the voters’ pamphlet for the election.

Last checked 2026-09-05

The case for and the case against

Printed in the county voters’ pamphlet and mailed to every voter in the jurisdiction. Written by committees the jurisdiction appointed, and reproduced here exactly as they wrote them.

The pamphlet for this measure has not been loaded. Pro and con statements are published by the county that ran the election, in a pamphlet PDF. We have loaded Spokane County so far, and only for the elections whose pamphlets are still retrievable — counties remove them when the next election is published. This measure’s statements exist; we do not hold them.

Last checked 2026-09-05

Who is funding each side

Political committees registered with the Public Disclosure Commission whose registration names this measure — the same year, county, proposition number and jurisdiction.

Committee registrations have not been matched to this page yet. This page was written before committee registrations were matched to measures. The match arrives with the next import; until then this section says nothing about whether any committee formed.

Last checked 2026-09-05

What this county has asked before

Other city measures put to Spokane County voters. Matched on county and measure kind — the results export carries no jurisdiction key, so these are comparable measures rather than provably the same body asking again.

Comparable earlier measures
Year	Measure	Yes	Result
2023	Town of Rockford Town of Rockford Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023	66.2%	passed
2023	Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 2 — Spokane County 2023	64.9%	passed
2023	City of Spokane City of Spokane Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023	74.7%	passed
2022	City of Spokane City of Spokane Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2022	48.8%	failed
2022	Town of Rockford Town of Rockford Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2022	73.6%	passed
2022	Town of Rockford Town of Rockford Proposition No. 2 — Spokane County 2022	71.4%	passed
2022	Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2022	69.6%	passed
2022	Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 2 — Spokane County 2022	59.7%	passed

Source WA Secretary of State certified election results · as of 2026-09-05 · n 7 of 8 passed · note listed with the threshold that applied at the time; history, not a prediction

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Connected records

Everything below is a link some document draws for us. Nothing here is our inference. Grouped by how well the record supports it, always in this order, never sorted by interest.

Nothing on file

This measure has no node in the graph yet. The graph adds a measure only with a SUPPORTS or OPPOSES edge, drawn where one committee’s C-1 registration resolves to exactly one certified measure on year, county, ballot number and jurisdiction name; no registration in the PDC extract we hold resolved to this one on that key, which is not the same as no committee having formed for or against it. The funding section above matches committees on proposition number and year only, with no county or jurisdiction, so a committee listed there can have no edge here. Shared-agent and shared-treasurer observations are not in the graph — the PDC extract we hold carries neither field, so the adjacency this page is designed to reference has no document yet.

Checked 2026-09-05

Source the edge table, counted and paged by tier · as of 2026-09-05 · edges 0 filed, 0 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

What this page will not compute

Each of these is a number a reader might reasonably expect. None of them follow from the records we hold, so we do not publish them.

No forecast.: No projection of the result from prior measures, turnout, money raised, or anything else. We do not run a model, and would not publish one here if we did.
No net money figure.: Contributions and independent expenditures are separate ledgers, and money for is not subtracted from money against. Both totals are published; the difference between them is not a quantity we report.
No motive from an amount.: A five-figure contribution from a firefighters’ local is a fact. What it was intended to buy is not on any filing, and we do not supply it.
No “outside money” count.: The address on a contribution is the giver’s mailing address, which is not proof of where they live, work, or own property. We publish the addresses as filed and draw no boundary around them.
No revenue estimate of our own.: Each campaign’s figure for what a levy raises is labelled as that campaign’s. Washington requires no independent fiscal note for a local measure, and we do not invent one.
No cost per person.: A levy falls on assessed property value, not on residents. Dividing a district’s revenue by its population would produce a number that describes no household — which is a different refusal from the one below, where the rate itself is missing.
What it costs a household: Requires the levy rate per thousand of assessed value, which the results export does not carry. Stated above rather than estimated.
Whether the money decided it: We can show what each side raised and what the vote was. Connecting the two would be an inference about cause from two numbers, and campaign spending is not the only thing that moves a local levy.
Whether this is the same body asking again: Earlier measures are matched on county and kind, not on jurisdiction — the export has no jurisdiction key. A school district and its neighbour both appear as school measures in the same county.
What the measure would have done: The ballot title and the full text are not loaded. We hold the result, not the proposal.

Common questions

Did Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023 pass?: Yes, it passed. 74.7% voted yes on 75 votes cast.
Which Proposition 1 is this?: Proposition 1 on the 2023 ballot in Spokane County, Washington. Several different measures can carry the same number on one county ballot, so the year, the county and the body asking are all needed to identify one.
Where do these results come from?: The Washington Secretary of State’s certified election results. We publish the certified canvass, not election-night returns.
Why is there no argument for or against here?: Washington publishes committee-written for and against statements for most local measures. We have not ingested them. Showing one side without the other would be worse than showing neither.

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“Town of Spangle Town of Spangle Proposition No. 1 — Spokane County 2023,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-11-08. https://washingtonindependents.org/measure/2023-spokane-prop-1-town-of-spangle-town-of-spangle-proposition-no-1/

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