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Free public service for Washington votersNo candidate endorsementsGuide sources checked October 1, 2026General election November 3, 2026

Scope and limitations

What this Washington guide covers

This guide covers every candidate contest and measure presented to all Washington voters in the November 3, 2026 general election.

Included

Published now

  • Five statewide nonpartisan Supreme Court candidate contests
  • Ten printed Supreme Court candidates in certified ballot order
  • Ten exact cumulative PDC Campaign Finance Summary records
  • A 2,670-account 2026 PDC committee summary directory with public identifiers and source links
  • Searchable ordinary contribution and expenditure records, with exact dollar charts and contributor-state geography
  • Current C5 and C6 report rows, including imported contributions, vendor costs, allocations, and separately labeled unresolved records
  • Six source money fields with reported, reported-zero, and not-reported states kept separate
  • Three certified statewide initiatives and their official Attorney General descriptions
  • Statewide write-in rules and explicit unpublished-roster limitation
  • Statewide ballot mailing, registration, postmark, drop-box, voting-center, and Election Day deadlines
Not included

Outside this release

  • Ten U.S. House district contests and their FEC records
  • State Senate and State House district contests
  • Court of Appeals, Superior Court, county, municipal, school, and special-purpose district contests
  • General-election write-in names because the state does not publish them
  • Local ballot measures and ballot styles
  • Historical election and reporting years outside the published 2026 PDC release
  • Federal filings, private contact details, and a claim that PDC records capture every political dollar
Not yet published

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Washington ballots vary by congressional, legislative, appellate, superior-court, county, municipal, school, and special-purpose boundaries. Use VoteWA for the complete ballot assigned to your registration address.

Dataset comparison: Raised, Spent, and Debt remain separate cumulative PDC summary fields. The money explorer shows sums of published records, including reported aggregates and signed corrections. C5, C6, ordinary contributions, vendor costs, and advertising allocations can overlap and must not be added into one total. Federal House finance is outside this statewide guide.
Version record

Washington guide Version 2.0 checked October 1, 2026

PublishedOctober 1, 2026
Contests shown5
Ballot choices10
Ballot measures3

5 statewide candidate contests; 10 printed nonpartisan candidates; 10 exact candidate finance summaries; 2,670 PDC committee summary accounts; contribution and spending explorer with separate C5 and C6 ledgers; 0 FEC summaries; no exhaustive named statewide write-in roster; 3 statewide initiatives; 0 judicial retention questions.

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Washington guide publication record
VersionPublishedScope
Version 2.0 checked October 1, 2026October 1, 20265 statewide candidate contests; 10 printed nonpartisan candidates; 10 exact candidate finance summaries; 2,670 PDC committee summary accounts; contribution and spending explorer with separate C5 and C6 ledgers; 0 FEC summaries; no exhaustive named statewide write-in roster; 3 statewide initiatives; 0 judicial retention questions.

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