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Most Washington Elections Aren’t Elections

2,077 of the 2,974 races on the November 2025 general election ballot in Washington had exactly one candidate — 69.8% were decided before anyone voted.

Published
July 30, 2026
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November 2025 general election
Data
2,974 races — reproduce this

69.8%

of races in Washington had no opponent on the 2025 ballot — 2,077 of 2,974

A race counts as uncontested when exactly one candidate appeared on the ballot. Write-in lines and ballot measures are excluded.

Source WA Secretary of State official general election results, 2014-2025 · as of 2026-09-05 · 2,974 races on the ballot

https://washingtonindependents.org/uncontested/

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Findings

General elections only. Washington holds local elections in odd-numbered years, which is where the rate is highest — those are the ballots with the fire, water, cemetery and school seats on them.

By election

Uncontested rate by general election
Election Races Unopposed Rate
November 4, 2025 2,974 2,077 69.8%
November 5, 2024 373 116 31.1%
November 7, 2023 3,077 2,093 68%
November 8, 2022 638 346 54.2%
November 2, 2021 2,909 1,915 65.8%
November 3, 2020 337 98 29.1%
November 5, 2019 3,116 2,169 69.6%
November 6, 2018 624 290 46.5%
November 7, 2017 3,039 2,135 70.3%
November 8, 2016 356 117 32.9%
November 3, 2015 2,878 2,155 74.9%
November 4, 2014 548 261 47.6%

By county, November 2025

Ordered by rate. Smaller counties sit at the top, which is the finding rather than a sampling artefact — there are fewer people to field a second candidate.

Uncontested rate by county, November 2025
County Races Unopposed Rate
Garfield 5 5 100%
Klickitat 64 58 90.6%
Okanogan 75 67 89.3%
San Juan 48 42 87.5%
Asotin 16 14 87.5%
Whitman 125 109 87.2%
Skamania 29 25 86.2%
Columbia 19 16 84.2%
Pend Oreille 43 36 83.7%
Stevens 82 68 82.9%
Douglas 47 38 80.9%
Grant 101 81 80.2%
Kittitas 52 41 78.8%
Pacific 47 37 78.7%
Jefferson 32 25 78.1%
Lincoln 68 53 77.9%
Island 63 49 77.8%
Franklin 38 29 76.3%
Grays Harbor 87 66 75.9%
Lewis 103 78 75.7%
Cowlitz 43 32 74.4%
Chelan 57 42 73.7%
Mason 41 30 73.2%
Adams 46 33 71.7%
Clallam 38 27 71.1%
Walla Walla 36 25 69.4%
Whatcom 94 65 69.1%
Spokane 105 71 67.6%
Wahkiakum 18 12 66.7%
Ferry 12 8 66.7%
Yakima 99 63 63.6%
Skagit 78 49 62.8%
Kitsap 64 40 62.5%
Thurston 70 42 60%
Clark 78 44 56.4%
King 316 170 53.8%
Snohomish 164 87 53%
Benton 42 22 52.4%
Pierce 186 96 51.6%

Source WA Secretary of State official general election results, 2014–2025 · as of 2026-09-05

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By kind of office

Not evenly distributed. The seats with the highest rates are mostly the ones with the lowest profile — park, cemetery, water and fire districts, where a filing fee and a handful of signatures is the whole barrier.

Share of races in each kind of office that drew a single candidate. Bars are static; the widths are the data, and the printed figure beside each bar is the value.

  1. Park/Cemetery/Library

    1,142 of 1,324 races

    86.3%

  2. Water/Sewer district

    882 of 1,050 races

    84%

  3. Judicial

    77 of 94 races

    81.9%

  4. Fire district

    2,069 of 2,533 races

    81.7%

  5. Other

    581 of 750 races

    77.5%

  6. Hospital district

    530 of 706 races

    75.1%

  7. School district

    3,348 of 4,675 races

    71.6%

  8. Port district

    424 of 644 races

    65.8%

  9. City

    3,408 of 5,969 races

    57.1%

  10. County

    79 of 227 races

    34.8%

Source WA Secretary of State official general election results · as of 2026-09-05 · n 17,972 races in 10 kinds of office, summing to the whole · scale every bar is a share of its own kind, so the bars are comparable to each other and to nothing else · note every odd-year general election in the record, pooled — the local ballots, where these offices are · definitions

03

The seats themselves

A sample of the 2,077 races that drew one candidate — up to six per kind of office, in county order — with what filing for each one required. The 1,895 of them that sit in a single county are each named on that county’s page; races spanning several counties are in the total and listed nowhere yet. This is a way in, not the list. Filter by kind of office: this is a filter over a published list, not a guess at where you live.

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Othello Council Position 2

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Marc Spohr
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Ritzville Council Ward 2

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Brooke A. Scheel
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Ritzville Council Ward 3

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Ky Beck-gmeiner
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Ritzville Council Ward 5

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Michael Schrag
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Ritzville Council At Large 2yr

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Jen Verhey
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Town Of Washtucna Council Position 1

    Adams County · City

    2025
    elected unopposed: Gina Flower
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 2 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Bradley J. Heider
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 2 Commissioner Position 3

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Kevin Starring
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 3 Commissioner Position 3

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Bradley A Greenwalt
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 5 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Jim Shade
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 6 Commissioner Position 3

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Lori Graves
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Fire District 7 Commissioner Position 3

    Adams County · Fire district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Steve Crouse
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Hospital District 2 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Riley Hille
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Hospital District 3 Commissioner Position 4

    Adams County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Shirley Mccullough
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Cemetery District 1 Commissioner Position 1

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Amy L Phelps
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Cemetery District 2 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Dora Morelos
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lind Park And Recreation 3 Commissioner Position 4

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Andrea Steinmetz
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lind Park And Recreation 3 Commissioner Position 5

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Kelsey Kramer
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Ritzville Park And Recreation 4 Commissioner Position 1

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Chantel Beierman
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Ritzville Park And Recreation 4 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Park/Cemetery/Library

    2025
    elected unopposed: Ashley Yerxa
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Port District 1 Commissioner District 2

    Adams County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Gary H Weaver
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 122 – Benge Director Position 2

    Adams County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Heather Clinesmith
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 122 – Benge Director Position 5

    Adams County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Dean Kerr
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 158 – Lind Director Position 2

    Adams County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Jim Weidemann
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 158 – Lind Director Position 3

    Adams County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Adam Labes
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 158 – Lind Director Position 5

    Adams County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Andy Wahl
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Water District 1 Commissioner Position 2

    Adams County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Jr Ozuna
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Water District 1 Commissioner Position 3

    Adams County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Cedelia Cano
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Port District A Port Commissioner 1

    Asotin County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Mark Brigham
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    School District 420 School Director #01

    Asotin County · School district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Shar Schaefer
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Kennewick Public Hospital District Commissioner Pos. 1

    Benton County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Shannon Phipps
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Kennewick Public Hospital District Commissioner Pos. 4

    Benton County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Spencer Harris
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Kennewick Public Hospital District Commissioner Pos. 5

    Benton County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Wanda Briggs
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Kennewick Public Hospital District Commissioner Pos. 6

    Benton County · Hospital district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Rick Reil
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Chelan County Port District Commissioner District 1

    Chelan County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Donn Etherington
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Chelan Falls Water District Commissioner #2

    Chelan County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Richard Duoos
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lake Chelan Sewer District Commissioner 1

    Chelan County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Michael Collins
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lake Wenatchee Water District Commissioner #1

    Chelan County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: John Colvard
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lake Wenatchee Water District Commissioner #2

    Chelan County · Water/Sewer district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Erin Colwell
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Port Angeles Council Position No. 3

    Clallam County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Mark Hodgson
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Port Of Camas-washougal Commissioner, District No. 3

    Clark County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Larry Keister
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Port Of Ridgefield Commissioner, District No. 2

    Clark County · Port district

    2025
    elected unopposed: Scott Hughes
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Columbia County Pool District Pool District Commissioner No. 2

    Columbia County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: Lisa Naylor
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Columbia County Pool District Pool District Commissioner No. 5

    Columbia County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: Terri L Hessler
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Lexington Flood Control Zone District Supervisor Position 2

    Cowlitz County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Brian Wesemann
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Ferry Prosecuting Attorney

    Ferry County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Michael Golden
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Grant County Airport Dist #1 Commissioner #01

    Grant County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: G Bruce Eskildsen
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Grant County Airport Dist #1 Commissioner #02

    Grant County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: Kenneth F. Broda
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Coupeville Sch 204 Director, Position 2

    Island County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Nancy Conard
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Coupeville Sch 204 Director, Position 3

    Island County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Bryan Sherman
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Coupeville Sch 204 Director, Position 5, At Large

    Island County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Morgan White
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    No Whidbey Pool, Pk And Rec Commissioner, Position 2

    Island County · Other

    2025
    elected unopposed: Bill Larsen
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    County Council District No. 1 Metropolitan King County Council District No. 1

    King County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: Rod Dembowski
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    King County Airport District Commissioner Position No. 1

    King County · County

    2025
    elected unopposed: Kaye Pierson
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Position No. 1

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: Brad Bales
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Renton Municipal Court Judge Position No. 1

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: Jessica Giner
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Renton Municipal Court Judge Position No. 2

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: Kara Murphy Richards
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Kent Municipal Court Judge Position No. 1

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: Michael R. Frans
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Kent Municipal Court Judge Position No. 2

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: Anthony Gipe
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    City Of Kirkland Municipal Court Judge

    King County · Judicial

    2025
    elected unopposed: John Olson
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Legislative District 34 State Representative Pos. 1

    King County · Legislature

    2025
    elected unopposed: Brianna K. Thomas
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Legislative District 34 State Senator

    King County · Legislature

    2025
    elected unopposed: Emily Alvarado
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

  • Uncontested — one of the 2,077

    Legislative District 33 State Senator

    King County · Legislature

    2025
    elected unopposed: Tina L. Orwall
    term
    not on record
    pay
    not on record — the fee rule below applies
    to file
    what filing required

Showing 63 of 1,895 unopposed seats · every one is on its county page · winner named for 63 of 63 shown

What filing required in 2025 — stated, not summarised

These are the statutory requirements as the state publishes them, reproduced because most people have never seen them written down. They are the same for an incumbent and for anyone else.

Window
One week in May, set by statute. There is no late filing. RCW 29A.24.050
Form
A declaration of candidacy, filed online or with the county auditor. It states your name as it will appear, the office, and that you are qualified. RCW 29A.24.031
Fee
One percent of the annual salary of the office. For seats that pay nothing, the fee is nothing. RCW 29A.24.091
Qualification
A registered voter living in the district on the day you file. No signatures, no party, no prior office. RCW 29A.24.075
After filing
A campaign committee and PDC reporting are required only once you raise or spend money. Many unopposed district candidates never do either. RCW 42.17A.205

How to run for one of these seats · component 09, per kind of office

Park/Cemetery/Library

How to run for a park/cemetery/library seat · component 09

Next regular election
2027 odd-numbered years · RCW 29A.04.330
Filing next opens
May 2027 one week; there is no late filing
Filing fee
One percent of the annual salary of the office. Salaries are not in the record we hold; for an unpaid seat the fee is $0.
Qualification
A registered voter living in the district on the day you file. No signatures, no party, no prior office.

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 a seat, and we do not say whether a seat is winnable — that would be a prediction, and this page carries records.

Source WA Secretary of State official general election results, November 2025; Secretary of State candidate filing guidance; RCW 29A.24 · as of 2026-09-05 · rows 63 of 1,895 seats shown · absent term and pay per seat — not in the results export; the fee rule is stated instead of a dollar amount · the requirements in full

04

What this report will not compute

This is the one report on the site that ends in an ask, which makes it the one report where the temptation to shade the data is real. Each of these would help the ask and damage the record.

No winnability score.
We do not rank seats by how easy they would be to take, and we do not model turnout. A number telling someone they would probably win is a prediction dressed as a record.
No vulnerable-incumbent list.
Sitting officials are not named on this page as targets. An unopposed incumbent appears in the aggregate and on their own entity page, where their record speaks without our framing.
No claim that uncontested means unaccountable.
Many of these boards are run well by people nobody has ever wanted to replace. The finding is that no one was asked, not that anyone failed.
No geolocation.
The block above counts seats across the whole report and says so, because we do not know where you are. We do not read your IP or ask for your location, on this page least of all — the page is asking you for something.
No connected-records section.
A report is not an entity. It has no node in the graph and draws no edges — the seats it lists link out to their own records, which is where relationships live.
No trend from one cycle to the next.
Washington runs local elections in odd years and state elections in even ones, so consecutive cycles are not comparable. The by-election table above is grouped for that reason.

05

Definitions

What was counted, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.

Uncontested
Exactly one candidate appeared on the general election ballot for that seat. Write-in lines are not counted as candidates.
Race
One seat on one ballot in one election. A three-seat board contributes three races. This is why the denominator is larger than the number of governing bodies.
No candidate
Zero filings at the close of filing week — a population this report does not yet count. The certified results carry no row for a seat nobody filed for, so it cannot be counted from them; it is a distinct finding we do not have, not a stronger version of the one above.
Excluded
Ballot measures, recall questions and advisory votes, none of which have candidates. Precinct committee officer races are excluded too, as party positions rather than public offices — they are numerous and nearly all unopposed, so counting them would raise the headline rate while measuring something else.
Top-two primary
Washington narrows most races to two candidates before the general. A race can be genuinely contested in August and appear uncontested here only if a single person filed at all — not merely because one was eliminated.
Multi-county races
Excluded from county tables, because a race spanning several counties cannot be attributed to one. They are included in the statewide totals.

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The figures come from one table built from the Secretary of State result exports. This is the query behind them.

SELECT election_date, COUNT(*) races, SUM(is_uncontested) unopposed
FROM race_contests
WHERE election_type = 'general'
GROUP BY election_date
ORDER BY election_date DESC;
Source
Washington Secretary of State official general election results, 2014–2025.
Uncontested flag
Set when exactly one candidate row exists for a seat on a general election ballot. Computed at import, not by hand.
Rebuilt
2026-09-05. Figures change when the state publishes a corrected canvass.

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“Most Washington Elections Aren’t Elections,” WashingtonIndependents.org, data as of 2026-09-05, accessed 2026-09-18. https://washingtonindependents.org/uncontested/

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