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February 2025 Special Election
- February 11: Special Election. Final day to return ballots. Deposit your ballot in an official drop box by 8pm.
- February 11: King Conservation District D2 election. Final day to vote in the King Conservation District, D2 election. (information; vote online)
- Endorsed candidates and ballot measures:
- King Conservation District Board of Supervisors District 2, Zachary Pratt (information; vote online)
- Burien Minimum Wage (Burien Initiative 1)
- Issaquah School District 411 (Proposition No. 1, General Obligation Bonds)
- Seattle Prop 1A Social Housing (Initiative Petition 137)
- Seattle School Levy (Prop 1 – Programs & Operational Levy renewal)
- Seattle School Levy 2 (Prop 2 – Capital Levy renewal)
- Proposed Shoreline Regional Fire Authority (merges Shoreline and Northshore Fire Departments) (Proposition 1)
Information for 2025 Campaigns
Thank you for your interest in an endorsement from the King County Democrats Central Committee (KCDCC). To receive an endorsement, you must complete a questionnaire. The King County Democrats’ questionnaire is also required by most of the 17 Democratic Legislative District (LD) organizations that fall within King County’s jurisdiction.
- 2025 Questionnaire: Additional races will open in February.
- King Conservation District endorsement application closed.
- The following endorsement applications will be available in February:
- City & Town Council & Mayor (for all municipalities except Seattle City Council)
- County Officer (King County Council & King County Executive)
- Port of Seattle Commissioner
- School Board Director
- Additional jurisdiction applications will be available in March:
- Seattle City Council
- Judicial candidates
- State Legislator
- Airport District Commissioner
- Fire and Fire and Rescue Commissioners
- Parks and Rec Commissioner
- Pool Commissioner
- Public Hospital Commissioner
- Water/Sewer/Utility/Cemetary Commissioner
About the questionnaire: The introductory questions are related to contact information and are the same for all candidates. Once you select the type of race and jurisdiction you are running in, you will then be asked to answer several general and position-specific questions. Note that long-form text responses are limited to 1200 characters. You must affirm that you identify as a Democrat to be eligible for endorsement (except for judicial races.) Prior affiliation with other parties does not disqualify you for endorsement by King County Democrats.
You may save your questionnaire progress at any time by clicking the “Save and Continue Later” button at the bottom of each questionnaire page. This will take you to a page that contains a magic link for your partially-finished questionnaire, which is valid for 30 days. Please save this link to access your questionnaire later! We also highly recommend that you enter an email address to have the link sent to you, for your records.
Completed questionnaires must be submitted via our website.
You must submit your questionnaire directly to us, via our website, to be considered for a KCDCC endorsement. Questionnaires forwarded from a local LD organization, King County Young Democrats, or a Democratic club will not be accepted. You can preview the questions for currently approved offices. It might be useful for drafting answers. However, we can only accept completed questionnaires through the website.
Once you have completed your questionnaire, you will receive an email that includes all of your questionnaire answers in text form. You can use your computer’s print function to save the email text as a PDF and/or copy/paste those answers into a document (such as Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, or Google Docs). Further instructions are listed on the Candidate Resources page.
You will receive an emailed copy of your questionnaire submission. All submitted questionnaires are checked for completion and then stored in a private but shared drive that all LDs and LD endorsements teams have access to. While some LDs may ask for you to provide your own PDF of your responses to our questionnaire, each LD will have access to all questionnaires within 72 hours of their completion.
Questions? Contact [email protected] for questions or assistance. We’re here to help!