State Senator Manka Dhingra – Washington Independents

01

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

02

Voting record

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

6,000

recorded votes

5,673

yea

296

nay

31

absent or excused

Votes against their own party’s majority

41

of 6,000 recorded votes went against the majority of Democratic 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
2026-02-17	SSB 5828	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (23-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-13	E2SSB 6026	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (24-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-05	SSB 5941	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (26-3 yea-nay)
2025-04-27	SSB 5393	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (23-6 yea-nay)
2025-04-26	HB 2039	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (25-4 yea-nay)
2025-04-19	SSB 5393	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (21-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-18	ESB 5206	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (22-7 yea-nay)
2025-04-16	2SHB 1515	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2025-04-09	SHB 1121	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (25-5 yea-nay)
2025-04-09	SHB 1309	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (29-1 yea-nay)
2025-03-12	ESB 5206	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (22-7 yea-nay)
2025-03-12	ESSB 5708	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (28-1 yea-nay)
2025-03-05	SSB 5327	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (28-2 yea-nay)
2024-03-07	E2SSB 6194	Final Passage as Amended by the House	Nay	Yea (27-1 yea-nay)
2024-03-04	SI 2113	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2024-02-28	SHB 1989	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-11 yea-nay)
2024-02-13	SB 5915	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (16-13 yea-nay)
2023-04-19	HB 1018	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (18-11 yea-nay)
2023-04-12	ESHB 1791	3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate	Nay	Yea (15-14 yea-nay)
2023-03-07	2SSB 5263	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (26-2 yea-nay)
2023-03-03	SB 5497	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (26-3 yea-nay)
2023-03-01	ESSB 5326	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (19-10 yea-nay)
2022-03-04	ESHB 2037	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (32-16 yea-nay)
2022-03-04	ESSB 5459	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (38-10 yea-nay)
2022-02-09	ESB 5919	3rd Reading & Final Passage	Nay	Yea (31-18 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 41. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll call service · as of 2026-08-07 · 6,000 votes across every session held

03

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.

155

bills prime-sponsored

54

became law

28

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 5038	Hate crime offense	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5043	PTSD/correctional workers	pending	yes
2025-26	SSB 5093	Pregnancy loss	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5094	Sexually explicit depictions	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5095	School construction debt	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5096	Natural death act/pregnancy	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5330	Spiked drink testing	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5361	ASAM 4 treatment criteria	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5362	Crime victim services	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5366	Victim of rape/pregnancy	pending	no
2025-26	SSB 5388	DOC behavioral health cert.	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 5490	Jail searches/gender	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5575	Parenting plan limitations	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5584	OII expansion/prosecutions	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 5585	Tribal warrants	pending	no
2025-26	SB 5704	Health care marketplace	pending	no
2025-26	E2SSB 5745	Invol. treatment counsel	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 6011	Court of appeals bailiffs	became law	yes
2025-26	SB 6044	Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6070	Recovery of missing persons	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6074	Parole	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6086	Judicial security	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6159	Public hospitals	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6206	First responders/child care	pending	yes
2025-26	SB 6208	Health care market standards	pending	no
2025-26	SB 6218	State-federal payments	pending	no
2025-26	SB 6239	State tort claims	pending	yes
2025-26	SR 8604	Indian Americans	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8630	Sikhs	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8638	Senate rule 10	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8642	Transgender visibility day	pending	no
2025-26	SR 8674	Republic day of India	pending	no
2023-24	SB 5119	Nonconviction data/auditor	died	no
2023-24	2SSB 5120	Crisis relief centers	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5137	Indigenous women	died	no
2023-24	SB 5171	Consumer products/gender	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5205	Parenting plan limitations	died	yes
2023-24	ESSB 5217	Musculoskeletal injuries/L&I	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5228	Behavioral health OT	became law	yes
2023-24	SSB 5300	Behavioral health continuity	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5351	Consumer health data	died	no
2023-24	E2SSB 5440	Competency evaluations	became law	yes
2023-24	ESSB 5515	Child abuse and neglect	became law	yes
2023-24	SSB 5523	Forensic pathologists	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5541	Supply chain transparency	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5576	Sexual assault procedures	died	yes
2023-24	ESB 5623	Hate crimes	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5624	Substance use recovery serv.	died	yes
2023-24	SB 5690	Conditional release teams	died	yes
2023-24	ESB 5790	Medical equipment in schools	became law	yes
2023-24	E2SSB 5853	Behav crisis services/minors	became law	yes
2023-24	E2SSB 5937	Crime victims & witnesses	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 5969	School construction debt	died	yes
2023-24	2SSB 6006	Victims of human trafficking	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 6050	Postinpatient housing	died	no
2023-24	SSB 6146	Tribal warrants	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 6207	Office of indep. invest.	died	no
2023-24	SSB 6227	Protection order/insanity	became law	yes
2023-24	2SSB 6228	Substance use treatment	became law	yes
2023-24	ESB 6246	Firearm info./mental health	became law	yes
2023-24	E2SSB 6251	Behavioral crisis coord.	became law	yes
2023-24	SB 6295	Behavioral health/high users	died	yes
2023-24	SB 6308	988 system timeline	became law	yes
2023-24	SR 8610	India's Republic Day	died	no
2023-24	SR 8627	Cricket day	died	no
2023-24	SR 8663	India's Republic Day	died	no
2023-24	SR 8679	Sikh Americans	died	no
2021-22	SB 5035	Drug offender scoring	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5036	Conditional commutation	died	yes
2021-22	SSB 5066	Officer duty to intervene	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5067	Impeachment disclosures	died	no
2021-22	SB 5069	Law enforcement audits	died	no
2021-22	E2SSB 5071	Civil commitment transition	became law	yes
2021-22	SSB 5073	Involuntary commitment	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5127	Courthouse facility dogs	died	yes
2021-22	ESSB 5180	Vacating certain convictions	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5209	Crisis response services	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5210	Comp. restoration orders	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5241	Economic inclusion	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5282	Property value/emergency	died	no
2021-22	SB 5297	Civil protection orders	died	no
2021-22	ESB 5476	State v. Blake decision	became law	yes
2021-22	ESB 5561	Firearm rights restoration	died	yes
2021-22	ESSB 5628	Cyber harassment	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5645	Assisted outpatient treat.	died	no
2021-22	SB 5655	State hospitals/short-term	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5663	State v. Blake procedures	died	yes
2021-22	2SSB 5664	Forensic competency programs	became law	yes
2021-22	2SSB 5695	DOC body scanner pilot	became law	yes
2021-22	SB 5734	Physical & health education	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5735	Async. instructional hours	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5794	Behavioral health Rx drugs	died	yes
2021-22	SB 5845	Civil protection orders	died	no
2021-22	SR 8610	AAPI residents	died	no
2019-20	SB 5034	Debt collection complaints	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5061	Undetectable firearms	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5143	Domestic violence/firearms	died	yes
2019-20	2SSB 5144	Child support pass-through	became law	yes
2019-20	ESSB 5160	Sr's, disab. vets/prop tx ex	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5161	Cert. child safety policy	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5162	Jury service qualifications	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5205	Incomp. for trial/firearms	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5206	Feminine hygiene/sales tax	died	no
2019-20	SB 5207	Felony voting rights notices	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5248	Definition of theft	died	no
2019-20	E2SSB 5432	Behavioral health, integrate	became law	yes
2019-20	E2SSB 5444	Forensic mental health care	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5477	Higher ed. application fees	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5551	Courthouse dog assistance	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5649	Sexual assault/adjust SOLs	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5681	Domestic violence	died	no
2019-20	SSB 5714	Evidence reliability, crim.	became law	yes
2019-20	2E2SSB 5720	Involuntary treatment act	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 5744	Sexually exploited children	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5776	Office of equity	died	yes
2019-20	SB 5796	Retirement communities	died	no
2019-20	SB 5844	Industrial ins claim records	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 5861	Legislature/code of conduct	became law	yes
2019-20	SSB 5889	Insurance communications	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6073	Menstrual products/schools	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6074	Financial fraud/theft crimes	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6157	Bleeding control kits/school	died	yes
2019-20	SSB 6158	Model sex. assault protocols	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6159	Controlled substances	died	no
2019-20	SB 6160	Drug offender sentencing alt	died	no
2019-20	SB 6161	Ammunition excise tax	died	no
2019-20	SB 6162	Nonfatal strangulation	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6163	Firearms/free on bond	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6164	Resentencing discretion	became law	yes
2019-20	2SSB 6211	Drug offender sentencing	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6220	Restitution/insurance	died	yes
2019-20	ESSB 6288	Office of firearm safety	became law	yes
2019-20	SB 6289	Firearm rights restoration	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6342	Drinking water/chemicals	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6530	Postconviction review	died	yes
2019-20	SB 6532	Behavior technicians	died	no
2019-20	SB 6591	Mental health directives	died	yes
2019-20	SR 8606	India's Republic Day	died	no
2019-20	SR 8643	Destination Imagination	died	no
2019-20	SR 8664	Indian Americans	died	no
2017-18	SB 6025	Therapeutic courts	died	yes
2017-18	SSB 6051	Medicaid fraud control unit	became law	yes
2017-18	SSB 6124	Commitment hearings by video	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6188	Peace officer disciplining	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6217	Sexually violent predators	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6251	Sr's, disab. vets/prop tx ex	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6297	Incomp. for trial/firearms	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6298	DV harassment/firearms	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6314	Senior & disabled prop taxes	died	yes
2017-18	SSB 6334	Child support	became law	yes
2017-18	SB 6445	Postsecondary education	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6502	Essential needs/ABD programs	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6503	Child support pass-through	died	yes
2017-18	SB 6566	Juvenile offenses	died	yes
2017-18	SR 8687	Republic Day	died	no

Source WA Legislature legislation and committee hearing records · as of 2026-08-07 · 155 bills across every session held

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Committee seats

2025-26

Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology
Senate Committee on Law & Justice
Senate Committee on Ways & Means

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.

$214K

raised, 2026 cycle

$97,608

spent

$800

average contribution

Total divided by 268 reported contributors.

$2.6M

raised across 4 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
2026	$214,438	$97,608	268
2022	$464,612	$466,360	730
2018	$370,596	$370,596	949
2017	$1,526,533	$1,526,477	4,815

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor	City	Amount
Loschen Matthew	Redmond	$2,650
Amazon	Seattle	$2,400
Anderson Chris	Redmond	$2,400
Anderson Megan	Redmond	$2,400
BNSF Railway Co	Fort Worth	$2,400
Council of Police Political Support	Olympia	$2,400
Del Castillo Debra	Woodinville	$2,400
GoWest Credit Union Assn	SeaTac	$2,400
Kennedy Fund	Seattle	$2,400
Loschen Gretchen	Redmond	$2,400
Puget Sound Energy	Bellevue	$2,400
Puget Sound Pilots PAC	Seattle	$2,400
Regence	Seattle	$2,400
SEIU 775	Seattle	$2,400
Saini Ekta	Thorp	$2,400

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
2017-07-15	2017	MICROSOFT	6	$2,426
2017-09-30	2017	MICROSOFT	4	$1,906
2017-05-19	2017	KING COUNTY	4	$550
2017-08-17	2017	KING COUNTY	4	$418
2017-06-27	2017	MICROSOFT	3	$1,025
2018-09-15	2018	MICROSOFT	3	$451
2017-09-07	2017	MICROSOFT	3	$400
2017-05-18	2017	PARAMETRIX	3	$200

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 2026-08-07

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
Amazon	2	$1,600

Only 11.2% 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 Manka Dhingra to PDC filer DHINM 052 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (45) 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 DHINM 052

The original filing at the PDC

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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 45	4 years	2030	May 2030

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 45th Legislative District

WA Legislature member roster
SERVED — 2025-26

Senate, Legislative District 45

WA Legislature member roster, 2025-26
SERVED — 2023-24

Senate, Legislative District 45

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

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“State Senator Manka Dhingra,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-08-07, accessed 2026-08-10. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/manka-dhingra/

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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.