The 2004 Washington gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2004. The race gained national attention for its legal twists and extremely close finish,among the closest political races in United States election history. Republican Dino Rossi was declared the winner in the initial automated count and again in a subsequent automated recount,but after a second recount done by hand,Democrat Christine Gregoire took the lead by a margin of 129 votes.
Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician,lawyer,and economist who has served as the 23rd governor of Washington since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1999 to 2012,and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. He is the longest-serving current governor in the United States.
In American politics,a superdelegate is a delegate to a presidential nominating convention who is seated automatically.
The 1984 Democratic National Convention was held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco,California from July 16 to July 19,1984,to select candidates for the 1984 United States presidential election. Former Vice President Walter Mondale was nominated for president and Representative Geraldine Ferraro of New York was nominated for vice president. Ferraro became the first woman to be nominated by either major party for the presidency or vice presidency. In another first,the 1984 Democratic Convention was chaired by the female governor of Kentucky,Martha Layne Collins. The Democratic National Committee Chairman at the time,Charles T. Manatt,led the convention.
Washington's 8th congressional district is a district for the United States House of Representatives located in western Washington State. It includes the eastern portions of King,Pierce,and Snohomish counties,and crosses the Cascade mountains to include Chelan and Kittitas counties. The district's western part includes the exurban communities of Sammamish,Issaquah,and Maple Valley but does not include Seattle and Tacoma's more immediate suburbs. On its east side,the 8th's population centers include the rural communities Wenatchee,Leavenworth,and Ellensburg. It is currently represented in the U.S. House of Representatives by Democrat Kim Schrier,who was first elected to the seat in 2018.
The Alabama Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Alabama. It is chaired by Randy Kelley.
ChristineKotek is an American politician serving as the 39th governor of Oregon since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party,Kotek served eight terms as the state representative from the 44th district of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2007 to 2022,as majority leader of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2011 to 2013,and as Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives from 2013 to 2022. She won the 2022 Oregon gubernatorial election,defeating Republican nominee Christine Drazan and independent candidate Betsy Johnson.
The Maryland Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Maryland,headquartered in Annapolis. The current acting state party chair is Kenneth Ulman. It is currently the dominant party in the state,controlling all but one of Maryland's eight U.S. House seats,both U.S. Senate seats,all statewide executive offices and supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature.
Suzan Kay DelBene is an American politician and businesswoman who has been the United States representative from Washington's 1st congressional district since 2012.
Presidential primaries and caucuses were organized by the Democratic Party to select the 4,051 delegates to the 2016 Democratic National Convention held July 25–28 and determine the nominee for president in the 2016 United States presidential election. The elections took place within all fifty U.S. states,the District of Columbia,five U.S. territories,and Democrats Abroad and occurred between February 1 and June 14,2016.
Kimberley Marie Wyman is an American politician who served as the 15th Secretary of State of Washington from 2013 to 2021. Wyman resigned as Secretary of State on November 19,2021,to work on election security at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the Biden administration.
The 2018 United States Senate elections were held on November 6,2018. Among the 100 seats,the 33 of Class 1 were contested in regular elections while 2 others were contested in special elections due to Senate vacancies in Minnesota and Mississippi. The regular election winners were elected to 6-year terms running from January 3,2019,to January 3,2025. Senate Democrats had 26 seats up for election,while Senate Republicans had 9 seats up for election.
The Washington Secretary of State election,2012,took place on November 6,2012. Republican Kim Wyman was narrowly elected Secretary of State to succeed incumbent Republican Sam Reed,who did not seek re-election.
The 2016 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington were held on November 8,2016,to elect the 10 U.S. representatives from the state of Washington,one from each of the state's 10 congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 2.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Washington on November 8,2016. The primary was held on August 2.
The Washington Secretary of State election,2016,was held on November 8,2016. Incumbent Republican Kim Wyman won reelection over Democratic nominee Tina Podlodowski,the two having received the most votes in an August 2016 primary election.
The 2017 Democratic National Committee chairmanship election was held on February 25,2017,at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta to determine the next chairperson of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). It was the first contested DNC chair election since 1985.
Kimberly Merle Schrier is an American politician and a former physician who is the U.S. representative from Washington's 8th congressional district since 2019. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
General elections were held in the U.S. state of Washington on November 3,2020. A primary was held on August 4. This election cycle is notable as it was only the second in state history in which Democrats won the top three statewide elections by double digits. The first was the 1936 election,in the middle of the Great Depression. As of 2023,this was the last time Republicans won any statewide election in Washington.
The 2022 United States secretary of state elections were held on November 8,2022,to elect the secretaries of state in twenty-seven states. These elections took place concurrently with several other federal,state,and local elections.
