Elected official · Washington State

State Senator Keith Goehner

Keith Goehner is a Republican state senator representing Washington's 12th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 53 bills, of which 11 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 12
  • 2 sessions on record
email
keith.goehner@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7622

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.

5,006

recorded votes

3,893

yea

1,113

nay

Votes against their own party’s majority

788

of 5,006 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
2026-03-10 E2SHB 2325 Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (14-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6026 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESSB 6162 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESSB 6200 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 SGA 9266 The Appointment be Confirmed Nay Yea (14-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 2ESHB 1210 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (8-10 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SHB 1903 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (5-13 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 E2SHB 2251 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (4-14 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 E3SHB 1960 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 SHB 2334 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (16-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 HB 2353 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 HB 2510 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (17-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-04 HB 2340 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (17-2 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 EHB 1345 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (4-15 yea-nay)
2026-03-03 2SHB 2384 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 EHB 1687 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (2-17 yea-nay)
2026-02-26 EHB 1501 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (4-15 yea-nay)
2026-02-26 ESHB 2242 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 ESSB 6200 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (5-14 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 SB 5832 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (5-14 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 ESSB 6162 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2026-02-16 ESSB 6262 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (5-14 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 SSB 5346 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-27 ESSB 5161 Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee Yea Nay (6-12 yea-nay)
2025-04-27 SSB 5393 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (10-7 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 788. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 5,006 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.

53

bills prime-sponsored

8

became law

11

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.

Bills prime-sponsored by this member
Session Bill Subject Outcome Heard
2025-26 SB 5154 County auditor duties pending yes
2025-26 SB 5317 EFSEC/services by local gov. became law yes
2025-26 SB 5467 Water-sewer district surplus became law yes
2025-26 SB 5470 Detached ADUs pending yes
2025-26 ESB 5471 Middle housing became law yes
2025-26 SB 5524 Donate life license plate pending yes
2025-26 SSB 5558 Growth management plans became law yes
2025-26 SB 5631 Back country search & rescue pending no
2025-26 SB 5659 Housing shortage/local share pending yes
2025-26 SB 5660 Water & sewage system access pending yes
2025-26 SB 5661 Landlord-tenant/preemption pending yes
2025-26 SB 5699 Intensive rural development pending yes
2025-26 SB 5731 Tenant assistance program pending yes
2025-26 SB 5929 Deed of trust assignment/fee pending no
2025-26 SB 5930 Irrigation dist. directors pending yes
2025-26 SSB 6076 Utility procurement became law yes
2025-26 SB 6096 Delayed utility conn. fees pending yes
2025-26 SB 6158 Factory built structures pending yes
2025-26 SB 6167 Down payment assistance pending yes
2025-26 SR 8632 Apple blossom festival pending no
2025-26 SR 8637 Donate life month pending no
2025-26 SR 8639 Arlene Wagner pending no
2025-26 SR 8686 National donate life month pending no
2025-26 SR 8691 Apple blossom festival pending no
2023-24 HB 1285 Family farm permit transfers died yes
2023-24 HB 1403 Water & sewage system access died yes
2023-24 HB 1404 State building code council died no
2023-24 EHB 1468 Impact fee deferrals died yes
2023-24 HB 1523 Agricultural overtime died no
2023-24 HB 1594 Residential electrician cert died no
2023-24 EHB 1663 Consolidated port districts became law yes
2023-24 HB 1664 Env. justice council/rural died no
2023-24 HB 2050 Fuel pump price information died no
2023-24 HB 2257 Back country search & rescue died yes
2023-24 HB 2375 Senior property tax ex./ADUs became law yes
2023-24 HR 4614 Wenatchee H.S. football died no
2023-24 HR 4630 Apple blossom festival court died no
2023-24 HR 4685 Manson H.S. cross country died no
2023-24 HR 4690 Manson H.S. volleyball died no
2023-24 HR 4695 Chelan H.S. volleyball died no
2021-22 HB 1222 Fuel tax rate posting died yes
2021-22 HB 1385 Water rights transfers died yes
2021-22 HB 1391 Public works/bidding died yes
2021-22 HB 1414 Marijuana licensing/zoning died yes
2021-22 HB 1627 Water & sewage system access died yes
2021-22 HB 2101 Family farm permit transfers died no
2019-20 HB 1294 OFM/agency names & accounts died yes
2019-20 HB 1442 Election candidate names died yes
2019-20 HB 1633 Fuel tax rate posting died yes
2019-20 HB 1634 Tax foreclosure/as-is sale became law yes
2019-20 HB 2247 Marijuana licensing/zoning died yes
2019-20 HB 2825 Hydroelectric turbines/oil died yes
2019-20 HB 2866 Transfer of water rights died yes

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 53 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

  • Senate Committee on Housing
  • Senate Committee on Local Government
  • Senate Committee on Transportation

We cannot say which of these they chair. A committee chair decides what gets a hearing, which makes the role the single most consequential fact in this section — and the roster export records membership without it. Every seat above is shown as an equal membership because that is all the record supports.

Last checked 2026-08-07

Source WA Legislature committee membership records · as of 2026-08-07 · 3 seats

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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.

$172K

raised, 2024 cycle

$131K

spent

$904

average contribution

Total divided by 190 reported contributors.

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
Senate Republican Campaign Committee Olympia $20,000
AVISTA CORP SPOKANE $2,400
BNSF RAILRAY CO. SEATTLE $2,400
HOSPITALS FOR A HEALTHY FUTURE PAC SEATTLE $2,400
WA Charters Action PAC Seattle $2,400
WASHINGTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COUNCIL OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHINGTON BEER AND WINE ASSOCIATION OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHINGTON BEVERAGE ASSOC. PAC OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHINGTON FOOD INDUSTRY ASSOC. PAC OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHINGTON FOREST PROTECTION ASSOC OLYMPIA $2,400
WASHINGTON REFUSE AND RECYCLING ASSOC Lacey $2,400
WASHINGTON STATE AUTO DEALERS PAC RENTON $2,400
WASHINGTON STATE DENTAL PAC SEATTLE $2,400
WASHINGTON STATE TREE FRUIT ASSOC. YAKIMA $2,400
WashBankPAC State Seattle $2,400

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
Cascade Medical 2 $354

Only 12.2% 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 2026-08-07

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Keith Goehner to PDC filer GOEHK–991 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (12) 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 GOEHK–991

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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 Senator, District 12 4 years 2028 May 2028

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

  • HOLDS A SEAT IN

    Washington’s 12th Legislative District

    WA Legislature member roster

  • SERVED — 2025-26

    Senate, Legislative District 12

    WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26

  • SERVED — 2023-24

    House, Legislative District 12

    WA Legislature member roster, 2023-24

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 Senator Keith Goehner,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-09. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/keith-goehner/

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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.