Washington State Elections
2026 Elections
Standing together to elect healthcare Champions
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The causes we fight for don’t always stop at the walls of our workplace, and that’s why we build the power to win inside and outside of our facilities by helping elect healthcare champions who will stand with us at the bargaining table, the picket line and in the halls of power.
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2026 WA Primary Election Dates
july 17
Start of 18-day voting period (through Primary Election Day). Ballots are mailed out.
july 27
Online and mail registrations must be received 8 days before Election Day.
aug 4
ELECTION DAY. Mailed ballot must be postmarked by today. Ballot drop boxes are open until 8pm. Deadline for Washington State voter registration or updates (in person only).
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Washington State - Federal
| Position | Candidate | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| Congressional District 4 | John Duresky | Yakima, Benton, Klickitat, Grant, Okanogan, Douglas |
| Congressional District 5 | Nate Powell | Spokane, Pend Orielle, Walla Walla, Lincoln, parts of Tri-Cities |
Washington State - Legislature
| Position | Candidate | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| State House LD 1 | Rep. Davina Duerr | King, Snohomish |
| State House LD 1 | Rep. Shelley Kloba | King, Snohomish |
| State House LD 3 | Luc Jasmine | Spokane |
| State House LD 3 | Rep. Natasha Hill | Spokane |
| State House LD 4 | Rep. Suzanne Schmidt | Spokane |
| State House LD 5 | Rep. Lisa Callan | King |
| State House LD 5 | Rep. Zachary Hall | King |
| State Senate LD 6 | Sen. Jeff Holy | Spokane |
| State House LD 10 | Rep. Dave Paul | Spokane, Skagit, Island |
| State House LD 10 | Rep. Clyde Shavers | Spokane, Skagit, Island |
| State House LD 11 | Rep. Steve Bergquist | King |
| State House LD 14 | Ezequiel Morfin | Yakima, Benton, Franklin, Klickitat |
| State House LD 14 | Chelsea Dimas | Yakima, Benton, Franklin, Klickitat |
| State Senate LD 15 | Sen. Nikki Torres | Benton, Franklin, Yakima, Adams, Grant |
| State House LD 20 | Rep. Peter Abbarno | Thurston, Lewis, Cowlitz |
| State Senate LD 21 | Sen. Marko Liias | Snohomish |
| State House LD 21 | Rep. Lillian Ortiz-Self | Snohomish |
| State House LD 21 | Rep. Strom Peterson | Snohomish |
| State House LD 22 | Rep. Beth Doglio | Thurston |
| State House LD 22 | Rep. Lisa Parshley | Thurston |
| State House LD 23 | Rep. Greg Nance | Kitsap |
| State House LD 24 | Patrick Depoe | Clallam, Jefferson, Grays Harbor |
| State House LD 24 | Rep. Adam Bernbaum | Clallam, Jefferson, Grays Harbor |
| State House LD 26 | Sen. Deb Krishnadasan | Pierce, Kitsap |
| State House LD 26 | dual: Natalie Bornfleth and Rep. Addison Richards | Pierce, Kitsap |
| State House LD 26 | Renee Hernandez Greenfield | Pierce, Kitsap |
| State House LD 27 | Rep. Laurie Jinkins | Pierce |
| State House LD 27 | Rep. Jake Fey | Pierce |
| State House LD 28 | Rep. Mari Leavitt | Pierce |
| State House LD 28 | Rep. Dan Bronoske | Pierce |
| State Senate LD 29 | Rep. Sharlett Mena | Pierce |
| State Senate LD 30 | Sen. Claire Wilson | King, Pierce |
| State House LD 30 | Rep. Jamila Taylor | King, Pierce |
| State House LD 32 | Rep. Lauren Davis | King |
| State Senate LD 33 | Sen. Tina Orwall | King |
| State House LD 33 | Rep. Mia Gregerson | King |
| State House LD 33 | Rep. Edwin Obras | King |
| State Senate LD 34 | Sen. Emily Alvarado | King |
| State House LD 34 | Rep. Joe Fitzgibbon | King |
| State House LD 34 | Rep. Brianna Thomas | King |
| State House LD 35 | Maria Littlesun | King |
| State Senate LD 36 | Sen. Noel Frame | King |
| State House LD 36 | Rep. Liz Berry | King |
| State House LD 36 | Rep. Julia Reed | King |
| State Senate LD 37 | Rep. Chipalo Street | King |
| State House LD 37 | Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos | King |
| State House LD 37 | Jaelyn Scott | King |
| State Senate LD 38 | Sen. June Robinson | Snohomish |
| State Senate LD 38 | Rep. Julio Cortes | Snohomish |
| State Senate LD 38 | Rep. Mary Fosse | Snohomish |
| State House LD 40 | Rep. Alex Ramel | Whatcom, San Juan |
| State House LD 40 | Rep. Debra Lekanoff | Whatcom, San Juan |
| State House LD 41 | Rep. My-Linh Thai | King |
| State House LD 41 | Rep. Janice Zahn | King |
| State Senate LD 42 | Michael Sheppard | Whatcom |
| State House LD 42 | Rep. Joe Timmons | Whatcom |
| State Senate LD 43 | Sen. Jamie Pedersen | King |
| State House LD 43 | Rep. Nicole Macri | King |
| State House LD 43 | Rep. Shaun Scott | King |
| State Senate LD 44 | Sen. John Lovick | Snohomish |
| State House LD 44 | Rep. April Berg | Snohomish |
| State House LD 44 | Rep. Brandy Donaghy | Snohomish |
| State Senate LD 45 | Sen. Manka Dhingra | King |
| State House LD 45 | Vanessa Kritzer | King |
| State House LD 45 | Rep. Roger Goodman | King |
| State Senate LD 46 | Sen. Javier Valdez | King |
| State House LD 46 | Rep. Darya Farivar | King |
| State House LD 46 | Rep. Gerry Pollet | King |
| State Senate LD 47 | Sen. Claudia Kauffman | King |
| State House LD 47 | Rep. Chris Stearns | King |
| State House LD 47 | Rep. Debra Entenman | King |
| State Senate LD 48 | Sen. Vandana Slatter | King |
| State House LD 48 | Rep. Osman Salahuddin | King |
| State House LD 48 | Jessica Forsythe | King |
| State House LD 49 | Rep. Monica Stonier | Clark |
Washington State - County and City Councils
| Position | Candidate | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| King County Council Position 2 | Rebecca Saldana | King |
| Pierce County Council Position 5 | Bryan Yambe | Pierce |
| Pierce County Council Position 7 | Brenda Lykins | Pierce |
| Thurston County Council Position 3 | Tye Menser | Thurston |
| Spokane County Commissioner Position 2 | Amber Waldref | Spokane |
| Seattle City Council Position 5 | Nilu Jenks | King |
Washington State - Supreme Court
| Position | Candidate | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| Supreme Court, Pos. 1 | Colleen Melody | Statewide |
| Supreme Court, Pos. 3 | Jamie Hawk | Statewide |
| Supreme Court, Pos. 4 | Ian Burke | Statewide |
| Supreme Court, Pos. 5 | Dual: Theo Angelis; Sharonda Amamilo | Statewide |
Washington State - Issues
| Position | Issue | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| No on 645 | Millionaire Tax repeal (no vote keeps tax on millionaires) | Statewide |
| No on IL26-001 and IL26638 | Anti-Trans initiatives (no vote prevents trans bullying and risk to abused children) | Statewide |
| Evergreen Monroe Hospital Levy | Snohomish | |
| Spokane YES for buses | Spokane |
Montana
| Position | Candidate | Geography |
|---|---|---|
| State Senate D 4 | Kyle Waterman | Kalispell |
| State Senate D 8 | Tyson Running Wolf | Blackfeet, Browning |
| State House D 3 | Debo Powers | Glacier, West Glacier, Flathead, Whitefish, Columbia Falls, Olney, Essex |
| State House D 4 | Paula Koch | West Glacier, Columbia Falls |
| State House D 5 | Luca Welle | Coram, Helena Flats |
| State House D 10 | Catharine Allen | Kalispell, Flathead, Kila |
| State House D 12 | Cindy Bruckner | Flathead, Lake |
| State House D 13 | Dalton Bradford | Polson, Pablo, Ronan |
| State House D 15 | Thedis Crowe | Blackfeet, Browning |
2025 Policy Wins
Taking action and standing together in Washington & Montana, we’ve won transformational policies and investments that will help us put safe care, patients, and communities over profits. If we hadn’t used our collective voice to lift each other up and advocate before our elected leaders, these historic wins would not have been possible.
And we still have more to accomplish – see where we’ve made progress, below!
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Healthcare (& ALL) Workers
⭐ Unemployment Insurance & Healthcare for Striking Workers
We know that going on strike is a last resort, and can force us into tenuous choices like losing income to gain safety and respect in the workplace. These are the kind of choices that benefit the boss, and one of them is the threat of us losing out healthcare while on strike. Not anymore – we fought and won to make sure that any worker on strike who loses their employer healthcare can continue their coverage through a State health plan.
⭐ Montana Right to Work Fight Back
Bad employers – not workers and their unions – are what make poor workplaces, and Right to Work legislation weakens our rights to a union. In 2025 , we fought back (again) and won (again!!) to preserve the rights of workers to organize and collectively bargain in Montana.
⭐ Mandatory OT Protections for Frontline Healthcare Workers (HB 2061/Rep. Bronoske)
ALL frontline hospital workers in Washington are now entitled to mandatory overtime protections. We know our patients cannot receive quality care when we are forced to work through dangerous exhaustion. Abusive mandatory overtime risks medical errors and healthcare worker burnout which are both costly and harmful to patients.
Before 2024, only *some* healthcare had a right to these protections. This year, we fought and won these protections for all frontline hospital workers.
⭐ Regulating Employers to Prevent Musculoskeletal Injuries (SB 5217/Sen. Dhingra)
Our union’s EVS and janitorial workers led the labor movement to fight for and win legislation to protect ALL workers’ bodies from repetitive stress injuries. Too often, employers don’t treat us or our bodies with respect and these repetitive stress injuries mean weeks or months off the job, even ending our careers altogether. These conditions account for about a third of all time-loss workers’ compensation claims and workers who suffer these injuries are more likely to suffer opioid use and abuse, bankruptcy and even divorce.
Now, L&I will be able to regulate industries that have the highest rates of musculoskeletal injuries — including healthcare — so that we are preventing injuries from ever happening, not just treating them after the fact.
After surviving a nine-hour Republican filibuster in the House and being denied a floor vote in the Senate in 2022, we came together with EVS workers to win in 2023.
⭐ Safe Staffing in our Hospitals (Sen. June Robinson & Rep. Marcus Riccelli)
We have faced the crisis of hospital worker recruitment and retention for years, and we know the pandemic pushed our long-standing staffing problems to a breaking point.
Hospital executives repeatedly failed to prioritize recruitment and retention before this crisis, which is why we’ve fought in our contracts across our union for safe staffing.
Last year, our safe staffing legislation passed the House with a strong bipartisan vote but failed to pass the Senate. This year, we are asking lawmakers to stand with healthcare workers and finish the job so we can do ours: keeping our patients safe.
- Strengthen accountability to hospital staffing plans set by staffing committees.
- Eliminate CEO veto power over those plans.
- Expand staffing committees to include LPNs, CNAs, and other direct patient care staff in addition to RNs.
- Ensure unions get to select our representatives on staffing committees.
- Create uniform reporting forms, which will mean that patients and healthcare workers will easily understand how many staff should be present.
- Require hospitals to report noncompliance to the Department of Health (DOH) and the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) Allow DOH to issue corrective action plans that could require minimum staffing standards and fines.
- Expand meal and rest break laws to include all frontline staff.
- Close loopholes to make mandatory overtime laws fully enforceable.
- Allow L&I to issue escalating penalties for missed breaks.
- Funds the Washington State Institute for Public Policy to conduct a study of existing staffing plans.
⭐ Fair & Fully Funded State Contracts
We organized and negotiated state contracts that value our work, and improve our recruitment and retention. And we fought and won to get our DSHS/DOH/DCYF/UW HH contracts fully funded in the state budget.
⭐ RN PTSD Presumptive Coverage
Similar to fire fighters, nurses can now receive Washington’s workers compensation benefits following a PTSD diagnosis. Nurses on the frontline throughout the pandemic were repeatedly exposed to trauma while under-staffed and over-worked. And even before the pandemic, we know many of us and our coworkers have suffered from repeated workplace trauma and moral injury.
Our union won a presumptive standard that a nurse’s PTSD diagnosis is both caused by traumatic exposure on the job AND is a compensable occupational disease. This will help get treatment and workplace interventions for those who are impacted, and motivate employers to put better policies in place to prevent trauma in the firstplace.
⭐ Protecting the Harborview Bond – State authorization for flexible levy (HB 2348/Rep. Street) & won levy passage at King County Council
Three years ago, we campaigned and won over 77% of King County voters to approve a $1.7 billion bond package for seismic upgrades, additional bed capacity and expansion of Harborview’s behavioral health and respite services. But because of high inflation, critical projects have been put at risk of delay, and we know our patients, our community, and those of us who work at Harborview cannot afford delays. That’s why we worked with the Legislature to grant King County the authority to use an existing tax to help cover the gap in capital and operating dollars.
⭐ Passed the King County Crisis Care Levy
With the number of mental health beds plummeting across our county, we partnered with our allies on King County Council, put the Crisis Care Centers Initiative on the ballot and won. Now, five crisis care centers, hundreds of residential treatment beds and investments in our community behavioral health workforce are coming online – providing our communities AND behavioral health workers the places and resources to succeed.
⭐ Kept DSHS Workers PSER’s Retirement
⭐ Protecting ALL Workers from Pay Discrimination (HB 1905/Rep. Mena)
Washington State has had equal pay protections on the books for several years, but to date it has focused on the gender pay gap. But we know that women of color face even more disproportionate pay inequity, as do many other protected classes.
In 2024, we modernized our laws to ensure that the racial pay gap is closed in order to address racism in our workplaces and the long pattern of wealth inequality for Black people and people of color. Now Washington can do better for every worker by modernizing our law to cover ALL protected classes—gender, race, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability status, immigration status and more.
⭐ Automatic Voiding of Medical Debt when hospitals/providers send to credit agencies
⭐Preserving Workers’ Rights in Compelled Medical Exams (HB 1068/Rep. Bronoske)
Workers now have a right to record any medical exams compelled by employers and third parties to receive workers compensation benefits. Previously, injured workers were fighting legal cases around their workplace injury while doctors who tilted toward employers were evaluating their injury with little transparency. Now workers can have witnesses and recordings to make sure that any medical evaluation is transparent and valid in their case.
⭐ Regulating Third Party Administrators – require Good Faith & Fair Dealing handling our workers comp claims
⭐ No More Mandatory Employer Union-Busting Meetings (SB 5632/Sen. Keiser)
It takes courage to fight for a better, more fair workplace by joining together with coworkers in a union. And we know the boss will do everything they can to keep us divided. One tactic they use to compel workers to attend coercive captive audience meetings while workers are organizing, where the boss threatens employees and tells them how they should vote.
Now, the Employee Free Choice Act ensures workers who refuse to join these meetings are protected from retaliation or termination, and employers have one less tool to keep us divided.
⭐ Protecting Right to Privacy for Union-Delegate-Member Communications
The right to privacy in our communications with union delegates and organizers is now Washington State law.
A bad judicial decision left communications and records between our union organizers, delegates and members open to subpoena and potentially weaponized by employers in court cases. This could have had a major chilling effect on the many conversations we need to have on grievances, workplace issues and more. Now, our communications – by law — are similar to attorney-client privilege.
⭐ “WA Cares” Long Term Care Insurance for All Washingtonians
⭐ Paid Family Medical Leave for All Washingtonians
⭐ First in the Country Public Option: Cascade Care + expansion to cover more Washingtonians
⭐ Making it Easier to Organize a Public Sector Union (SB 6060/Sen. Nguyen)
We made more gains in making it easier to organize and form a union in our state — state workers now have the same ability as those in the private sector to sign an electronic card to organize their union, meaning a little more fairness for state workers who want to organize, especially in today’s hybrid and remote workplaces.
Behavioral Health
⭐ Behavioral Health Apprenticeships
Our behavioral health workforce is in dire need of not just more workers, but workers who reflect the clients and patients they serve. That’s why our union has been working with legislators to authorize and develop behavioral health apprenticeships, which have a proven track record of lowering barriers to entry for BIPOC student-workers.
In 2022, we won the addition of a Substance Use Disorder Professional apprenticeship pathway, which our Training Fund will develop and offer to workers. This adds to to the growing list of behavioral health apprenticeships our union and our Training Fund have fought to make available to workers, including Peer Support Specialist & Behavioral Health Tech apprenticeships.
⭐ 15% ATB BH Workforce & Rates
We won 15% across-the-board increases! These are ongoing rate increases, which means more stability for our wages and benefits and our clients. We also won similar increases to PSH and homelessness contracts for our coworkers on the housing side. In addition to core funding, there will be progress on the following.
Additional investments, including but not limited to:
⭐ 988
⭐ Trueblood
⭐ Assisted Outpatient Treatment
⭐ Blake decision
Priority bills that we lobbied on at Lobby Day also all passed and will help the system better support workers and serve clients:
⭐ 1515 — Addresses procurement accountability and network adequacy
⭐ 1260 — Helps ABD/HEN clients by ending repayment upon SSDI.
⭐ Procurement Accountability & Network Adequacy (HB 1515/Macri)
⭐ Ending forced repayment of clients’ ABD/HEN upon SSDI
Our Training Fund & Workforce Development
⭐ We won $2 million in matching dollars and to help our BH employers/publicly-funded employers join our Training Fund
⭐ $3 million in resources to continue and expand behavioral health apprenticeships
⭐ The State is required to work with our Training Fund/labor-management training partnerships on a 4-year plan to grow the nursing workforce pipeline
Immigration
⭐ Allow Paid Sick Leave for Immigration Court, self or family member
⭐ No Deportation by Bounty Hunters – Banning Bail Bonds agents from carrying out immigration arrests
⭐ Imposing Civil Penalties on employers who coerce workers based on immigration status to violate labor laws
Housing
⭐ Rent Stabilization – 7% limit on year-year rental increases
⭐ More kinds of housing at more affordable levels – regulating restricting housing practices like housing-type bans, design review, excessive permitting
⭐ Include climate change planning in cities’ growth planning
Climate Justice
⭐ Eliminating our Carbon Pollution by making Polluters Pay (Climate Commitment Act)
⭐ Requiring Planning for Climate Change at Community Level, Loval Gov
⭐ Making it easier to Build Clean Energy Projects in WA
⭐ Replacing Dirty Diesel with Pollution-Free Electric School Buses
A win for our environment, our kids, and the SEIU 925 and PSE 1948 school bus drivers: we’ve committed our state to transitioning our polluting school bus fleet with clean electric buses.