Past Endorsements

This page reflects endorsements from 2011 to 2018. During that time, we endorsed 54 individual candidates in a total of 97 races, many in multiple election cycles and/or for different positions. Endorsements from 2019 to 2022 are not yet on this page.

Year	Early/Primary/General	Candidate	Position	Won/Lost	Incumbent/Challenger/Open	API/POC
2011	Primary	Richard Mitchell	King County Council, Dist. 6	Lost	Challenger	API/African American
2011	Primary	Bruce Harrell	Seattle City Council	Won	Incumbent	API/African American
2012	Early	Jay Inslee	Governor	Won	Open seat	No
2012	Primary	Bob Ferguson	Attorney General	Won	Open seat	No
2012	General	Kathleen Drew	Secretary of State	Lost	Open seat	No
2012	General	Pat Sullivan	State representative, 47th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2012	Primary	Yoshie Wong	State senator, 28th LD	Lost	Challenger	API
2012	General	Bud Sizemore	State representative, 47th LD	Lost	Challenger	No
2012	Primary	Cyrus Habib	State representative, 48th LD	Won	Open seat	Iranian American
2012	Primary	Bob Hasegawa	State senator, 11th LD	Won	Open seat	API
2012	General	Monica Stonier	State representative, 17th LD	Won	Open seat	API/Latinx
2012	Primary	Jeannie Darneille	State senator, 27th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2012	Primary	Bobby Virk	State representative, 11th LD	Lost in primary	Open seat	API
2012	Primary	Sylvester Cann	State representative, 46th LD	Lost in primary	Open seat	African American
2013	Appointment	Cindy Ryu	King County Council, Dist. 1	Not appointed	Appointment	API
2013	Primary	Rod Dembowski	King County Council, Dist. 1	Won	Appointed incumbent	No
2013	Primary	Vandana Slatter	Bellevue City Council, Pos 6	Lost	Open seat	API
2013	Primary	Shari Song	King County Council	Lost	Open seat	API
2013	Primary	Nathan Schlicher	State senator, 26th LD	Lost	Appointed incumbent	No
2013	Primary	My-Linh Thai	Bellevue School Board	Won	Open seat	API
2013	General	Mike McGinn	Seattle Mayor	Lost	Incumbent	No
2013	General	Marilyn Strickland	Tacoma Mayor	Won	Incumbent	API/African American
2013	General	Benson Wong	Mercer Island City Council	Won	Open seat	API
2013	General	Dave Upthegrove	King County Council	Won	Incumbent	No
2013	General	Bryan Yambe	Fife City Council	Won	Open seat	API
2014	Primary	Mary Yu	State Supreme Court	Won	Open seat	API
2014	Primary	Matt Isenhower	State representative, 41st LD	Lost	Challenger	No
2014	Primary	Tami Green	State senator, 28th LD	Lost	Challenger	No
2014	Primary	Shari Song	State senator, 31st LD	Lost	Open seat	API
2014	Primary	Joan McBride	State representative, 48th LD	Won	Open seat	No
2014	General	Cyrus Habib	State senator, 48th LD	Won	Incumbent	Iranian American
2014	General	Mia Gregerson	State representative, 33rd LD	Won	Appointed incumbent	API
2014	General	Pramila Jayapal	State senator, 37th LD	Won	Open seat	API
2014	General	Sharon Tomiko Santos	State representative, 37th LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2014	General	Cindy Ryu	State representative, 32nd LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2014	General	Monica Stonier	State representative, 17th LD	Lost	Incumbent	API/Latinx
2015	Primary	Mia Gregerson	Sea-Tac City Council	Lost	Incumbent	API
2015	Primary	Bryan Yambe	Fife City Council	Won	Incumbent	API
2015	Primary	Bruce Harrell	Seattle City Council, Dist 2	Won	Open seat	API/African American
2015	Primary	Debadutta Dash	Seattle City Council, Dist 5	Lost in primary	Open seat	API
2015	Primary	Vandana Slatter	Bellevue City Council, Pos 5	Won	Open seat	API
2015	Primary	Lloyd Hara	King County Assessor	Lost	Open seat	API
2015	Primary	Carol Gregory	State representative	Lost	Appointed incumbent	No
2015	Primary	Zack Hudgins	King County Elections Director	Lost	Open seat	No
2016	Primary	Tina Podlodowski	Secretary of State	Lost	Open seat	No
2016	Primary	Marisa Peloquin	State senator, 28th LD	Lost	Challenger	API
2016	Primary	Jay Inslee	Governor	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	Primary	Mary Yu	State Supreme Court	Won	Incumbent	API
2016	Primary	Mia Gregerson	State representative, 33rd LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2016	Primary	Bob Hasegawa	State senator, 11th LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2016	Primary	Bob Ferguson	State Attorney General	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	Primary	Zack Hudgins	State representative, 11th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	Primary	Monica Stonier	State representative, 49th LD	Won	Open seat	API/Latinx
2016	Primary	Pat Sullivan	State representative, 47th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	Primary	Jeannie Darneille	State senator, 27th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	Primary	Noel Frame	State representative, 36th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2016	General	Dan Shih	State representative, 43rd LD	Lost	Open seat	API
2016	General	Cyrus Habib	Lieutenant Governor	Won	Open seat	Iranian American
2016	General	Kristine Reeves	State representative, 30th LD	Won	Open seat	African American
2016	General	Mike Pellicciotti	State representative, 30th LD	Won	Open seat	No
2016	General	Cindy Ryu	State representative, 32nd LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2016	General	Sharon Tomiko Santos	State representative, 37th LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2016	General	Lisa Wellman	State senator, 41st LD	Won	Challenger	No
2017	Primary	Manka Dhingra	State senator, 45th LD	Won	Open seat	API
2017	Primary	Teresa Mosqueda	Seattle City Council, Pos 8	Won	Open seat	Latinx
2017	General	Janice Zahn	Bellevue City Council, Pos 5	Won	Open seat	API
2017	General	Rituja Indapure	Sammamish City Council, Pos 5	Lost	Open seat	API
2017	General	Satwinder Kaur	Kent City Council, Pos 2	Won	Open seat	API
2017	Primary	Bob Hasegawa	Seattle Mayor	Lost in primary	Open seat	API
2017	General	Jin-Ah Kim	Shoreline City Council, Pos 1	Lost	Challenger	API
2017	General	Lorena Gonzalez	Seattle City Council, Pos 9	Won	Incumbent	Latinx
2017	General	Vandana Slatter	State representative, 48th LD	Won	Appointed incumbent	API
2017	General	Rebecca Saldana	State senator, 37th LD	Won	Appointed incumbent	Latinx
2017	General	Jimmy Matta	Burien City Council, Pos 3	Won	Open seat	Latinx
2017	General	Benson Wong	Mercer Island City Council, Pos 6	Won	Incumbent	API
2017	General	Rod Dembowski	King County Council, Dis 1	Won	Incumbent	No
2017	General	My-Linh Thai	Bellevue School Board, Dist 5	Won	Incumbent	API
2017	General	Susan Chang	Shoreline City Council, Pos 5	Won	Open seat	API
2018	Primary	Zack Hudgins	State representative, 11th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2018	Primary	Mike Pellicciotti	State representative, 30th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2018	Primary	Kristine Reeves	State representative, 30th LD	Won	Incumbent	African American
2018	Primary	Victoria Mena	State representative, 31st LD	Lost	Challenger	Latinx
2018	Primary	Cindy Ryu	State representative, 32nd LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2018	Primary	Mia Gregerson	State representative, 33rd LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2018	Primary	Sofia Aragon	State senator, 34th LD	Lost	Open seat	API
2018	Primary	Noel Frame	State representative, 36th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2018	Primary	Sharon Tomiko Santos	State representative, 37th LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2018	Primary	Rebecca Saldana	State senator, 37th LD	Won	Incumbent	Latinx
2018	Primary	My-Linh Thai	State representative, 41st LD	Won	Open seat	API
2018	Primary	Manka Dhingra	State senator, 45th LD	Won	Appointed incumbent	API
2018	Primary	Pat Sullivan	State representative, 47th LD	Won	Incumbent	No
2018	Primary	Vandana Slatter	State representative, 48th LD	Won	Incumbent	API
2018	Primary	Monica Stonier	State representative, 49th LD	Won	Incumbent	API/Latinx
2018	Primary	Mona Das	State senator, 47th LD	Won	Challenger	API
2018	Primary	Patty Kuderer	State senator, 48th LD	Won	Appointed incumbent	No
2018	General	Debra Entenman	State representative, 47th LD	Won	Challenger	African American