2002 Washington State Senate election

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2002 Washington State Senate election
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← 2000November 5, 2002 2004  →
24 out of 49 seats in the Washington State Senate
25 seats needed for a majority
 Majority partyMinority party
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Leader James E. West Sid Snyder
(retired)
Party Republican Democratic
Leader sinceJanuary 10, 2000January 9, 1995
Leader's seat 6th District-Spokane 19th District-Cowlitz
Last election2425
Seats after2524
Seat changeIncrease2.svg 1Decrease2.svg 1
Popular vote329,959397,445
Percentage43.86%52.83%
Majority Leader before election

Sid Snyder
Democratic

Elected Majority Leader

James E. West
Republican

The 2002 Washington State Senate election was held on November 5, 2002, to determine which party would control the Washington State Senate for the following two years in the 58th Washington State Legislature. Twentyfour of the 49 senate seats were up for election. Prior to the election 25 seats were held by Democrats and 24 were held by Republicans. The general election saw Republicans flipping a single seat, thereby regaining the majority in the Washington State Senate that they had lost following the 1998 election. [1] [2]

Contents

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
The Cook
Political Report [3] 		TossupOctober 4, 2002

Retirements

  1. 13th District: Harold Hochstatter (R) retired.
  2. 38th District: Jeralita Jeri Costa (D) retired.
  3. 44th District: Jeanine Long (R) retired.
  4. 48th District: Dan McDonald (R) retired.

Defeated incumbents

  1. 42nd District: Georgia Gardner (D) lost re-election to Dale Brandland (R).

Closest races

Seats where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. District 26, 0.84%
  2. District 6, 2.80%
  3. District 42, 3.05% (gain)
  4. District 31, 3.38%
  5. District 44, 6.18%
  6. District 30, 8.10%

Results

6th District

6th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican James E. West (incumbent) 24,021 51.40%
Democratic Laurie Dolan 22,71648.60%
Total votes46,737 100.0%
Republican hold

7th District

7th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Harry Morton (incumbent) 31,595 100.0%
Total votes31,595 100.0%
Republican hold

8th District

8th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Pat Hale (incumbent) 24,574 100.0%
Total votes24,574 100.0%
Republican hold

13th District

13th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Joyce Mulliken 25,015 100.0%
Total votes25,015 100.0%
Republican hold

15th District

15th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Jim Honeyford (incumbent) 19,443 100.0%
Total votes19,443 100.0%
Republican hold

21st District

21st District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Paull Shin (incumbent) 19,273 62.07%
Republican Cheryl Potebnya11,77837.93%
Total votes31,051 100.0%
Democratic hold

26th District

26th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Robert Oke (incumbent) 20,823 50.42%
Democratic Betty Ringlee20,48049.58%
Total votes41,303 100.0%
Republican hold

29th District

29th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Rosa Franklin (incumbent) 16,141 100.0%
Total votes16,141 100.0%
Democratic hold

30th District

30th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Tracey Eide (incumbent) 15,474 54.05%
Republican William Moore13,15445.95%
Total votes28,628 100.0%
Democratic hold

31st District

31st District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Pam Roach (incumbent) 18,017 51.69%
Democratic Yvonne Ward16,84248.31%
Total votes34,859 100.0%
Republican hold

32nd District

32nd District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Darlene Fairley (incumbent) 25,048 61.74%
Republican Michael Plunkett15,52438.26%
Total votes40,572 100.0%
Democratic hold

33rd District

33rd District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Karen Keiser (incumbent) 16,722 63.37%
Republican James Russell9,66636.63%
Total votes26,388 100.0%
Democratic hold

34th District

34th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Erik Poulsen (incumbent) 29,719 63.37%
Total votes29,719 100.0%
Democratic hold

35th District

35th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Tim Sheldon (incumbent) 29,221 78.28%
Green Marilou Rickert8,10921.72%
Total votes37,330 100.0%
Democratic hold

36th District

36th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Jeanne Kohl-Welles (incumbent) 35,334 100.0%
Total votes35,334 100.0%
Democratic hold

37th District

37th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Adam Kline (incumbent) 22,508 100.0%
Total votes22,508 100.0%
Democratic hold

38th District

38th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Aaron Reardon 17,809 65.34%
Republican Glenn Coggeshell9,44534.66%
Total votes27,253 100.0%
Democratic hold

42nd District

42nd District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dale Brandland 18,721 49.25%
Democratic Georgia Gardner (incumbent)17,56546.20%
Green Peter Tassoni1,0062.65%
Libertarian Donald Crawford7241.90%
Total votes38,016 100.0%
Republican gain from Democratic

43rd District

43rd District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Pat Thibaudeau (incumbent) 29,735 79.04%
Green Linde Knighton7,88520.96%
Total votes37,620 100.0%
Democratic hold

44th District

44th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Dave Schmidt 18,696 53.09%
Democratic Phil Doerflein16,52046.91%
Total votes35,216 100.0%
Republican hold

45th District

45th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Bill Finkbeiner (incumbent) 26,500 100.0%
Total votes26,500 100.0%
Republican hold

46th District

46th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Ken Jacobsen (incumbent) 31,919 100.0%
Total votes31,919 100.0%
Democratic hold

47th District

47th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Stephen L. Johnson (incumbent) 17,997 55.52%
Democratic Deborah Jacobson14,41944.48%
Total votes32,416 100.0%
Republican hold

48th District

48th District election, 2002
PartyCandidateVotes%
Republican Luke Esser 24,990 77.51%
Libertarian Christine Lawniczak7,25222.49%
Total votes32,242 100.0%
Republican hold

References

  1. ↑ "Washington_State_Senate". ballotpedia.org. Retrieved 2025-11-26.
  2. ↑ "Elections Search Results". sos.wa.gov. Retrieved 2025-11-26.
  3. ↑ Jacobson, Louis (October 4, 2002). "2002 State Legislature Ratings" . The Cook Political Report : 149–150. doi:10.7910/DVN/EH6LU0. Archived from the original on 2020-08-24 – via Harvard Dataverse.
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