Elected official · Washington State

State Representative Eric Robertson

Eric Robertson is a Republican state representative representing Washington's 31st Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 77 bills, of which 5 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • House
  • Legislative District 31
  • 1 session on record
email
Eric.Robertson@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7866

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-08-07

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Candidate vs official

What this member said while seeking the office, set against how they voted once they held it. We state only whether the two records differ — never why.

No stated positions have been collected for this member yet. This comparison needs a quote with a citation — a candidate guide, a town hall transcript, a floor video — found and recorded by a person. There is no feed of things politicians said, so an empty section here means nobody has done that reading, not that the member has never contradicted themselves and not that they have.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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Voting record

Recorded floor votes across every session we hold. Committee votes are not included — those are recorded per committee, not per member.

6,084

recorded votes

5,142

yea

849

nay

93

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

464

of 6,084 recorded votes went against the majority of Republican colleagues

Counted only where their party had a clear majority on that roll call. A tied party is not a position to diverge from.

Votes against the member’s own party majority
Date Bill Motion They voted Their party
2024-03-05 ESHB 2039 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (14-24 yea-nay)
2024-03-05 EHB 2266 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (20-18 yea-nay)
2024-03-01 SSB 5972 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (21-16 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 ESB 5592 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (15-24 yea-nay)
2024-02-29 E2SSB 5838 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (12-27 yea-nay)
2024-02-28 SB 5821 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (23-16 yea-nay)
2024-02-28 SB 6229 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (18-21 yea-nay)
2024-02-27 SB 6088 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (35-2 yea-nay)
2024-02-12 ESHB 2039 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (6-33 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 ESHB 2021 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (11-28 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 ESHB 2021 Final Passage on Reconsideration Yea Nay (10-29 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 2SHB 2022 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (19-20 yea-nay)
2024-02-09 2SHB 2320 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (34-5 yea-nay)
2024-02-08 E2SHB 1692 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (25-14 yea-nay)
2024-02-06 SHB 1911 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (21-18 yea-nay)
2024-02-06 HB 1927 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (2-37 yea-nay)
2024-01-08 SHB 1012 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (10-30 yea-nay)
2023-04-20 SHB 1163 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (34-6 yea-nay)
2023-04-19 ESHB 1533 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (3-37 yea-nay)
2023-04-18 ESHB 1791 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (34-6 yea-nay)
2023-04-18 ESSB 5123 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (4-36 yea-nay)
2023-04-17 2SHB 1316 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (26-14 yea-nay)
2023-04-17 E2SSB 5199 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (33-7 yea-nay)
2023-04-14 SHB 1217 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (6-33 yea-nay)
2023-04-14 E2SHB 1216 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (21-18 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 464. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 6,084 votes across every session held

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Bills sponsored — and where they stopped

Bills where this member was the prime sponsor. Co-sponsorship is not included; the record we hold names only the prime sponsor.

77

bills prime-sponsored

23

became law

5

died without a public hearing

Introduced, referred, and the session ended without testimony taken. Ordinary rather than exceptional — 44% of all bills that die in Washington die this way. A further 45 died in sessions whose hearing records the Legislature does not publish, and are not counted here either way.

Bills prime-sponsored by this member
Session Bill Subject Outcome Heard
2023-24 HB 1053 Vehicular pursuits died no
2023-24 HB 1083 Cannabis retailer payments died yes
2023-24 HB 1237 VIN inspection fee became law yes
2023-24 SHB 1457 Motor carriers/restrooms became law yes
2023-24 HB 1514 RV & park trailers/insignia became law yes
2023-24 HB 1920 Public accountancy act became law yes
2023-24 SHB 1996 RV manufacturers and dealers became law yes
2023-24 HB 2376 CCA public entity oblig. died yes
2021-22 HB 1528 Commute trip reduction died no
2021-22 HB 1533 Spirits taxes died no
2021-22 HB 1788 Vehicular pursuits died yes
2021-22 HB 1971 Smoke control systems died yes
2021-22 HB 2029 Retail cannabis outlets died no
2021-22 HR 4622 Washington State Patrol died no
1997-98 SHB 1008 License plate issuance became law no
1997-98 HB 1195 Vehicle insurance proof died no
1997-98 HB 1263 Current use taxation died no
1997-98 HB 1269 Death investigations account became law no
1997-98 HB 1440 Safety belt enforcement died no
1997-98 HB 1447 Thoroughbred horses/tax exmp died no
1997-98 HB 1494 Law enforcmnt officrs/retire died no
1997-98 2SHB 1501 Driver's license statutes became law no
1997-98 HB 1506 Peace officer bill of rights died no
1997-98 HB 1589 Crime victim advocates became law no
1997-98 SHB 1726 Outdoor burning/storm debris became law no
1997-98 HB 1874 Electrical inspections died no
1997-98 EHB 1940 Ignition interlocks for DUI became law no
1997-98 HB 1941 Dev disabled supported emply died no
1997-98 HB 1959 Wholesale car auctions/B & O became law no
1997-98 HB 2283 Surface mining died no
1997-98 HB 2320 Toxicology lab funding died no
1997-98 HB 2446 Restricted drivers' licenses died no
1997-98 HB 2503 Storm water control faciliti became law no
1997-98 HB 2569 Fire-fighting apparatus died no
1997-98 HB 2600 Transportation business/tax died no
1997-98 HB 2729 State institutn/crimnl costs died no
1997-98 HB 2730 Drivers' licenses security died no
1997-98 HB 2731 City hardship assistance pro died no
1997-98 HB 2732 Wage assignment orders became law no
1997-98 HB 2733 Vehicle warranties/motr home died no
1997-98 HB 2893 Thoroughbred race tracks/tax died no
1997-98 HB 2962 Criminal mistreatment died no
1997-98 HB 2983 Developmntl disabled residen died no
1997-98 HB 3032 Railroad vandalism/trespass died no
1997-98 HCR 4413 HB 2192 cutoff exemption died no
1997-98 HR 4602 Citizens thanked/storm aid died no
1997-98 HR 4605 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died no
1997-98 HR 4652 Bertha Holt honored died no
1997-98 HR 4741 Chief Leschi HS basketball died no
1995-96 HB 1189 Crim history informtn dissem became law no
1995-96 SHB 1192 Vehicle load fees became law no
1995-96 3ESHB 1317 Transprt systems & facilties became law no
1995-96 HB 1361 Arrest warrants/fax transmis died no
1995-96 HB 1362 Muckleshoot Tribe crim juris became law no
1995-96 HB 1449 Failure to obey an officer died no
1995-96 HB 1697 Death investigations systems died no
1995-96 HB 1942 Driving under the influence died no
1995-96 HB 1979 County road improvement dist died no
1995-96 HB 1980 Transfers into LEOFF died no
1995-96 HB 1987 Rainier State School/reimbur died no
1995-96 SHB 1990 Minimum retirement benefits became law no
1995-96 HB 2047 Travel sellers/unemploy comp died no
1995-96 SHB 2058 Travel service contractors became law no
1995-96 HB 2134 Dairy license degrade became law no
1995-96 HB 2147 B&O tax exemptions died no
1995-96 HB 2447 B & O tax exemptions died no
1995-96 HB 2500 Retirement incentive progrms died no
1995-96 HB 2506 Baseball stadium license pla died no
1995-96 HB 2573 Rebuilt salvage vehicles died no
1995-96 HB 2595 Vehicle impoundment became law no
1995-96 HB 2687 Vehicle size and load became law no
1995-96 HB 2829 Motor vehicl excise tx distr died no
1995-96 HB 2911 Transportation agncy budgets died no
1995-96 HB 2917 Amusement game limitation died no
1995-96 HR 4650 White River HS boys basketbl died no
1995-96 HR 4651 White River HS wrestlng team died no
1995-96 HR 4729 Washington State Patrol died no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 77 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

No committee seats on file. The Legislature serves committee rosters only for the current biennium, so a member who served only in an earlier session will show none here. That is our coverage, not an absence of seats.

Last checked 2026-08-07

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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.

$50,800

raised, 2024 cycle

$4,001

spent

$924

average contribution

Total divided by 55 reported contributors.

$280K

raised across 3 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
2024 $50,800 $4,001 55
2022 $124,696 $123,930 165
2020 $104,026 $102,152 288

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
BNSF Railway Company Fort Worth $2,400
Puget Sound Energy Bellevue $2,400
ANHEUSER BUSCH St Louis $1,200
Alaska Airlines Seatac $1,200
Amazon.com Services LLC Seattle $1,200
American Property Casualty Insurance Association Chicago $1,200
BECU Seattle $1,200
CHEVRON POLICY GOVT & PUBL AFFAIRS San Ramon $1,200
Consolidated Bookkeeping and Management Services Inc Seattle $1,200
Daily Pay Inc New York $1,200
Delta Dental Seattle $1,200
Hospitals for a Healthy Future PAC Seattle $1,200
IUPAT Political Action Together Legislative Education Committee Hanover $1,200
MPC Investment Fund Inc San Antonio $1,200
Muckleshoot Indian Tribe Auburn $1,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Eric Robertson to PDC filer ROBEE–560 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Representative) and the district (31) all agree, 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 2026-08-07

Source Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings · as of 2026-08-07 · filer ROBEE–560

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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.

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
Chair and ranking-member roles decide which bills get heard. The roster gives membership without role, so every seat here looks alike.
A member’s response
The design reserves space for one. We have no process yet for soliciting or publishing it, so the section is absent rather than empty.

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How to run for this office

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 Representative, District 31 2 years 2026 May 2026

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.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-08-07

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Connected records

Every link this page draws, grouped by how well a document supports it.

On the record

Nothing on file

No funding edge is published. Campaign finance and the Legislature roster share no key, and matching people by name across the two produces wrong pairs often enough to be worse than nothing. No lobbying edge either: Washington lobbying filings name neither bills nor legislators.

Source WA Legislature member roster · as of 2026-08-07

Cite this page

This is public-records reporting. Use it, and say where it came from.

“State Representative Eric Robertson,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/eric-robertson/

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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.

WA Legislature member roster
Name, party, district, chamber and contact details, per session served.
WA Legislature roll call service
Every recorded floor vote. Committee votes are recorded per committee rather than per member and are not included.
Party divergence
Derived, not published by the Legislature. For each roll call we take the majority position of the member’s own party and flag votes against it, counting only roll calls where that party had a clear majority.
WA Legislature legislation records
Prime sponsorship, and each bill’s outcome and hearing status. Co-sponsorship is not in the record we hold.
Public Disclosure Commission candidate filings
Contributions, expenditures, the largest reported contributors and their stated employers, for every cycle back to 2007. Matched on surname and given name plus chamber and district for a legislator, or the office won and the county it was won in for everyone else — never on name alone — and only published where one person fits. Across the record that resolves 1,938 of 13,879 officials over 3,548 cycles, with 45 refused as ambiguous; the rest say why they did not match.
Not loaded
Public statements, advertising, committee roles, and committee votes by member.