WashingtonIndependents.org

State Senator Shelly Short

Shelly Short is a Republican state senator representing Washington's 7th Legislative District. They have prime-sponsored 140 bills, of which 37 died without a public hearing.

  • Republican
  • Senate
  • Legislative District 7
  • 2 sessions on record
email
shelly.short@leg.wa.gov
phone
(360) 786-7612

Source Washington State Legislature web services: member roster, roll calls, sponsorship and committee records · as of 2026-09-16

01

Says vs does

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 2026-09-16

02

Voting record

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

12,272

recorded votes

9,333

yea

2,844

nay

95

absent or excused

Recorded floor votes, most recent first
Date Bill Subject Motion This member Roll call
2026-03-12 ESHB 1295 Reading and writing literacy 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA 48–1
2026-03-12 ESHB 1408 Community authority funding Final Passage without Senate Amendments YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 E2SHB 2215 Fuels/climate commitment act 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESSB 6005 Transportation budget, supp. Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 SSB 6003 Capital budget, supplemental Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESSB 5998 Operating budget, supp. Final Passage as Recommended by Conference Committee NAY 28–21
2026-03-12 SSB 6225 Transportation funding bonds Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-12 ESB 6228 Prescription drugs/taxes Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 26–23
2026-03-12 ESSB 6260 Public education funding Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 26–23
2026-03-12 ESB 6347 Estate tax rates Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 39–10
2026-03-12 SSB 6355 Electric transmission system Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 32–17
2026-03-12 ESSB 6354 Electric vehicles Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 47–2
2026-03-12 SGA 9070 ROBERT H. MALTE The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9075 ROBERT DECOTEAU The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9091 STEPHANIE J. BARDIN The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9094 HUEY YU The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-12 SGA 9171 ELISA K. GRACEFFO The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SHB 2089 Taxes on loan interest 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 EHB 2487 Insurer taxes 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 27–22
2026-03-11 EHB 2681 Cannabis license fees 3rd Reading & Final Passage NAY 29–20
2026-03-11 SHB 2689 Working connect. child care 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate NAY 33–16
2026-03-11 ESHB 2711 Transportation resources 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate NAY 33–15
2026-03-11 ESSB 6346 Tax on millionaires Concur in House amendment(s) NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 ESSB 6346 Tax on millionaires Final Passage As Amended by the House NAY 27–21
2026-03-11 SGA 9050 ROBERT A. ZAPPONE The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 46–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9066 MEGAN MATTHEWS The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 45–2
2026-03-11 SGA 9172 DENISE E. GIDEON The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9180 ADRIA BUCHANAN The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9204 MICHELLE R. SMITH The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-11 SGA 9227 EDISON A. VALERIO The Appointment be Confirmed YEA 48–0
2026-03-10 E2SHB 2325 Tourism assessment Final Passage as Amended by the Senate NAY against party majority 43–5
2026-03-10 E2SSB 5847 Workers' comp. medical care Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 SSB 5982 Consumer-owned utilities Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 ESSB 6002 Driver privacy Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 39–10
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6026 Residential dev./zones Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 35–14
2026-03-10 E2SSB 6027 Affordable housing funding Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 30–19
2026-03-10 2SSB 6035 Voting services Final Passage as Amended by the House NAY 29–19
2026-03-10 SSB 6034 Office of Indian affairs Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 49–0
2026-03-10 SSB 6054 Wildfire home hardening/CICs Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 47–0
2026-03-10 ESB 6058 Wage enforcement discretion Final Passage as Amended by the House YEA 46–1

Showing the 40 most recent of 12,272 recorded votes. Each tally links to the roll call itself, which names every member.

The tally is what the chamber recorded, not a verdict. Final passage needs a majority of the members elected, an amendment a majority of those voting, and some motions two-thirds; which rule governed a given motion is not in the record we hold.

Votes against their own party’s majority

2,716

of 12,272 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 ESSB 6110 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (15-4 yea-nay)
2026-03-10 ESSB 6162 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (11-8 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 2215 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (11-7 yea-nay)
2026-03-06 ESHB 2225 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (13-5 yea-nay)
2026-03-05 HB 2353 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-03-04 E2SHB 2416 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-28 SSB 5647 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-17 SSB 5924 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (9-10 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 2SSB 5292 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (13-5 yea-nay)
2026-02-13 SSB 6079 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (7-11 yea-nay)
2026-02-12 SB 6278 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (16-3 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 SSB 5346 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 ESSB 5374 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (13-6 yea-nay)
2026-02-11 ESSB 6110 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (12-7 yea-nay)
2026-02-06 SSB 5185 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2026-02-04 SSB 6014 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-19 SSB 5790 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (11-7 yea-nay)
2025-04-18 E2SSB 5217 Final Passage as Amended by the House Nay Yea (11-8 yea-nay)
2025-04-17 ESSB 5184 Final Passage as Amended by the House Yea Nay (8-11 yea-nay)
2025-04-16 EHB 1185 3rd Reading & Final Passage Yea Nay (7-12 yea-nay)
2025-04-16 SHB 1418 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Yea Nay (8-11 yea-nay)
2025-04-16 ESHB 1971 3rd Reading & Final Passage Nay Yea (10-9 yea-nay)
2025-04-15 ESHB 1562 3rd Reading & Final Passage as Amended by the Senate Nay Yea (11-8 yea-nay)

Showing the 25 most recent of 2716. The full list is in the roll call records linked below.

Source WA Legislature roll-call archive · as of 2026-09-16 · rows 12,272 votes across every session held · key committee votes are not in the archive and are not counted here

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.

140

bills prime-sponsored

32

became law

37

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 SSB 5165 Deer and elk damage became law yes
2025-26 SB 5170 DNR boundary line adjust. pending yes
2025-26 SB 5171 Wolf predation pending yes
2025-26 SB 5173 County comprehensive plans pending yes
2025-26 SB 5334 DNR civil enforcement appeal became law yes
2025-26 SB 5343 NE WA wolf-livestock account became law yes
2025-26 SB 5354 Gray wolf management pending yes
2025-26 SB 5429 State building code council pending yes
2025-26 SB 5707 Subscriber emails/PRA pending no
2025-26 SB 5893 Forest health appropriation pending yes
2025-26 SB 5896 Water quality pollution pending no
2025-26 ESB 5899 Chiropractic/animals pending yes
2025-26 SB 5905 Port workers PERS membership pending yes
2025-26 SB 5908 WDFW public participation pending no
2025-26 SB 5941 Schools/renewable energy pending yes
2025-26 SB 5959 Charity care residency pending no
2025-26 SB 5960 Ungulate populations pending yes
2025-26 SJM 8015 Federal wildfire response pending yes
2025-26 SR 8652 Mary Selecky pending no
2025-26 SR 8688 Dairy farms pending no
2023-24 SB 5007 Wine retailer shippers died yes
2023-24 SB 5029 School district boards died no
2023-24 SB 5043 Power plant long-term policy died no
2023-24 SB 5065 Bone marrow donation/schools became law yes
2023-24 SB 5066 Health care benefit managers became law yes
2023-24 SSB 5145 Liability/hydro. projects became law yes
2023-24 SB 5146 Hydropower died no
2023-24 SB 5227 Sex-selection abortions died no
2023-24 SSB 5306 WDFW disease interdiction became law yes
2023-24 SSB 5374 County critical areas became law yes
2023-24 SB 5411 Naturopathic physician scope died no
2023-24 SB 5457 Small cities/GMA became law yes
2023-24 SB 5508 Greenhouses became law yes
2023-24 SB 5673 Forest practices board died yes
2023-24 SB 5676 Behavioral health siting died no
2023-24 SSB 5834 Urban growth areas became law yes
2023-24 SSB 5869 Rural fire district stations became law yes
2023-24 SB 5976 Dogs at large died yes
2023-24 SB 6070 Most serious offenses died no
2023-24 SSB 6140 Intensive rural development became law yes
2023-24 SB 6206 Water system receivership died yes
2023-24 SR 8632 Camp Gifford, Deer lake died no
2023-24 SR 8660 Victims of stalking died no
2021-22 SB 5060 Preservation of water rights died no
2021-22 SB 5072 Birth cert., stillbirth died no
2021-22 SB 5168 Electric utility advisory died yes
2021-22 2ESSB 5275 Intense rural dev. areas became law yes
2021-22 SB 5276 Significant legislative rule died no
2021-22 SB 5277 Early achievers prg/suspend died no
2021-22 SB 5308 Hybrid vehicle fees died yes
2021-22 SB 5314 GMA/standing & science died yes
2021-22 ESB 5356 Public works/bidding became law yes
2021-22 2SSB 5368 Rural economic development became law yes
2021-22 ESSB 5593 Urban growth area boundaries became law yes
2021-22 SB 5594 Bone marrow donation aware. died yes
2021-22 SB 5601 School district boards died no
2021-22 SB 5640 Motion picture program/rural died yes
2021-22 SB 5641 Greenhouses died yes
2021-22 SSB 5678 Energy project orders became law yes
2021-22 SB 5876 Noise/essential services died yes
2019-20 SB 5193 GMA/rural development died yes
2019-20 SB 5194 Urban growth area boundaries died yes
2019-20 SB 5241 Natural resources rulemaking died no
2019-20 SB 5242 Rural county economic dev. died yes
2019-20 SB 5243 Growth mngmt board standing died yes
2019-20 SB 5244 Domestic violence registry died no
2019-20 SB 5245 Critical area designation died yes
2019-20 SB 5308 Energy service contractors died yes
2019-20 SB 5524 GMA/agency obligations died yes
2019-20 SB 5525 Whitetail deer population died yes
2019-20 SB 5731 School district territory died yes
2019-20 2ESB 5887 Prior authorization became law yes
2019-20 SB 5982 Pharmacy benefit managers died yes
2019-20 SB 6178 Adding superior court judges died no
2019-20 SB 6290 School benefit eligibility died yes
2019-20 SB 6359 Home health shortage areas became law yes
2019-20 SB 6543 PRA/subsequent discovery died yes
2019-20 SB 6620 Unemployment insur./location died no
2019-20 SJM 8005 Biochar died yes
2019-20 SR 8609 Fredi Simpson died no
2019-20 SR 8674 George R. Nethercutt, Jr. died no
2017-18 SHB 1189 Massage therapy exemptions became law yes
2017-18 HB 1403 Silicon smelters/taxes died yes
2017-18 ESHB 1465 Wolf depredation/public recs became law yes
2017-18 ESHB 1503 On-site sewage sys. mandates became law yes
2017-18 SB 5754 Noxious weeds on state lands died yes
2017-18 SB 5755 GMA populat. growth criteria died yes
2017-18 SSB 5790 GMA economic dev. element became law yes
2017-18 SB 5794 Trust water rights program died yes
2017-18 SB 5954 GMA economic dev. element died no
2017-18 SB 5958 DNR/significant actions died yes
2017-18 SSB 6155 Bone marrow donation info. became law yes
2017-18 ESSB 6157 Health plan prior auth. became law yes
2017-18 SB 6510 Benefit managers died no
2017-18 SR 8673 Don Nelson died no
2017-18 SR 8674 Charlie Groth died no
2017-18 SR 8676 Dave Eubank died no
2015-16 HB 1011 Climate zones, counties in became law yes
2015-16 HB 1137 Geologists & well operators died yes
2015-16 HB 1199 Species status/F&W comm. died yes
2015-16 HB 1676 Wild ungulates, predation died yes
2015-16 HB 1677 Forest fires & firefighters died yes
2015-16 HB 1881 Carbon content of fuel died yes
2015-16 HB 1933 Group B water systems died no
2015-16 HB 2061 Group B water systems died yes
2015-16 HB 2643 School district procedures died no
2015-16 HB 2889 School board absences died yes
2015-16 HB 2927 Telemedicine/mental health died no
2015-16 HB 2941 School bathrooms died no
2015-16 HB 2977 Silicon smelters/taxes died yes
2013-14 HB 1112 Science and public policy became law yes
2013-14 HB 1113 Science and public policy became law yes
2013-14 HB 1191 Livestock protection died yes
2013-14 SHB 1192 Veterans with disabilities became law yes
2013-14 HB 1347 Hydroelectric generation/BPA died yes
2013-14 HB 1619 Suspending growth mgmt act died no
2013-14 HB 2112 Hydroelectric generation/BPA died yes
2013-14 HB 2113 Contractor registration died yes
2013-14 HB 2249 2 climate zones/bldg codes died yes
2013-14 SHB 2261 Science use/agency actions became law yes
2013-14 SHB 2262 Science use/agency actions became law yes
2013-14 HB 2676 Hydroelectric generation/BPA died no
2011-12 HB 1307 Science & public policy died yes
2011-12 HB 1433 Prevailing rate of wage died yes
2011-12 HB 1592 Suspending growth mgmt act died no
2011-12 HB 1611 Early learning/child care died yes
2011-12 HB 1737 DSHS pharmacy audit program died yes
2011-12 HB 2208 Honor and remember flag died no
2011-12 HB 2335 Science and public policy died yes
2011-12 HJM 4003 Western climate initiative died no
2011-12 HJM 4004 Honor and remember flag died yes
2009-10 HB 1831 Pet & livestock owner rights died yes
2009-10 HB 2086 Animal ID system died yes
2009-10 HB 2091 Grandparent visitation right died no
2009-10 HB 2092 Dependency proceedings died yes
2009-10 HB 2276 School construction funding died yes
2009-10 HB 2439 Church property/farmers mrkt died yes
2009-10 HB 2509 DNR/firefighting funds use died yes
2009-10 HB 2653 Greenhouse gas reporting died no
2009-10 HB 3000 Pharmacy reimbursement rates died no

Source WA Legislature bill status + committee agendas · as of 2026-09-16 · n 140 prime-sponsored bills across every session held · What died in committee

04

Committee seats

2025-26

  • Senate Committee on Agriculture & Natural Resources
  • Senate Committee on Environment, Energy & Technology
  • Senate Committee on Rules
  • Senate Committee on State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections

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 2026-09-16

Source WA Legislature committee membership records · as of 2026-09-16 · seats 4

05

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.

$174K

raised, 2026 cycle

$139K

spent

$1,223

average contribution

Total divided by 142 reported contributors.

$662K

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 $173,685 $138,660 142
2022 $243,695 $242,032 316
2018 $117,123 $151,308 192
2017 $127,509 $68,896 198

Largest reported contributors

Largest reported contributors
Contributor City Amount
ABC PAC, WA Spokane $2,400
Amazon.com Services LLC Seattle $2,400
BNSF RAILWAY Fort Worth $2,400
Delta Dental of Washington Seattle $2,400
HHFPAC Seattle $2,400
KAISER ALUMINUM Foothill Ranch $2,400
Microsoft Corporation Redmond $2,400
Puyallup Tribe of Indians Tacoma $2,400
Sabey Corporation Seattle $2,400
STCU Spokane $2,400

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
Microsoft Corporation 1 $2,400
No employer stated 4 $17,200

This filing was matched, not looked up. The Legislature and the PDC share no identifier. We matched Shelly Short to PDC filer SHORS 101 because the surname, the given name, the office (State Senator) and the district (7) 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 2026-09-16

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”

    $234

  2. Spent opposing

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

    none filed
  • OKANOGAN COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY for · $234 · 2022

Sources WA PDC C-3 contribution reports · C-6 independent expenditure and electioneering communication reports · as of 2026-09-16 · filer SHORS 101 · key surname + given name + chamber + district — refused where more than one person fits · n 3 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

The original filing at the PDC

06

How the seat was won

Every certified general election this member won, from the Secretary of State canvass. The canvass names winners by printed name and the Legislature issues member ids, so each row is a stated join of the two records — never a guess.

Certified election wins for State Senator Shelly Short
Election Seat Contest Record
November 7, 2017 · special State Senate seat, Legislative District 7 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2017
November 6, 2018 State Senate seat, Legislative District 7 contested WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2018
November 8, 2022 State Senate seat, Legislative District 7 unopposed WA Secretary of State certified general election results, 2022

Sources Secretary of State certified results + PDC candidate filings · as of 2026-09-16 · key joined on surname + given name + chamber + district; refused where more than one member fits · note — = value absent from source export

07

Member response

This page is built from public records, and the member it describes gets space to respond to it.

No response process exists yet. When one does, anything this member sends about this page will be published here verbatim — dated, unedited, and clearly theirs. Nothing has been solicited yet, so the absence of a response here says nothing about the member.

Last checked 2026-09-16

08 · component 08

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.

On the record · 24

One document states the relation in its own words.

Showing 8 of 24. Every edge for this record, as JSON

Joined by us, on a stated key · 3

Two documents joined on a key, and the key is named on every row.

Nothing on file

Votes are in the graph but render as vote-history tables above, not as rows here. Testimony and committee referrals are not in the graph yet — no sign-in sheet or chamber journal has been read into an edge for this member, which is not the same as none existing.

Checked 2026-09-16

Source one query on the edge table, grouped by tier · as of 2026-09-16 · edges 24 filed, 3 composite, 0 adjacency · how edges are built

09 · component 09

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 7 4 years 2030 May 2030

1 form

declaration of candidacy

Filed with the Secretary of State, online or on paper. It states your name as it will appear on the ballot, the office, and that you are qualified.

1 week

the filing window, every May

Monday to Friday, closing at 4:00pm. There is no late filing: miss it and the seat is decided without you.

0

signatures, endorsements, prior offices

You must be a registered voter living in the district on the day you file. That is the entire qualification, and no party is asked about you.

C-1

only once money moves

A campaign committee and PDC reporting are required within two weeks of raising or spending anything. Raise nothing and you file nothing.

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.

This section appears on every office page on this site, contested or not, filled or vacant. Its presence is not a comment on whoever holds the seat, and we do not say whether a seat is winnable — that would be a prediction, and this page carries records.

Source Election cycle derived from past regular elections in PDC candidate filings; requirements from RCW 29A.24 — candidate filing · as of 2026-09-16

10

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.

11

Common questions

Which Legislative District does Shelly Short represent?
Shelly Short is a Republican state senator representing Washington’s 7th Legislative District.
How often does Shelly Short break with their party?
Across 12,272 recorded floor votes we hold, Shelly Short voted against the majority of their own party 2,716 times. That count is a description of the record, not a measure of independence — the record does not say why any single vote diverged.
How many bills has Shelly Short sponsored?
Shelly Short has prime-sponsored 140 bills, of which 32 became law. Co-sponsorship is not in the record we hold. 37 of them died without ever getting a public hearing.
How long has Shelly Short served in the Legislature?
Shelly Short appears in the member roster for 2 biennia, most recently 2025-26. This counts biennia on record, not continuous years.
How many state legislators represent each Washington district?
Three — one state senator and two state representatives, elected to Position 1 and Position 2. All three represent the same geography; the positions are not sub-areas.
When are Washington legislative elections held?
In even-numbered years. All 98 House seats are up every two years; Senate seats run on staggered four-year terms.

Answers are generated from the same fields as the sections above and emitted as FAQPage structured data, so a machine reader gets the identical text a person sees.

Cite this page

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

“State Senator Shelly Short,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-16, accessed 2026-09-17. https://washingtonindependents.org/official/shelly-short/

JSON endpointReport a correction

Our tables, figures and notes on this page are released under CC BY 4.0 — reuse them, including commercially, with attribution. The underlying records are public records of the State of Washington and were never ours to license.

12

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.