Ready to get started on the King County Democrats’ endorsement? Fill out our candidate questionnaire. We are accepting endorsement requests for City & Town Council & Mayor (for all municipalities except Seattle), King County Council & Executive, Port of Seattle Commissioner, and School Board Director.
About the KCDCC endorsement process
Thank you for your interest in an endorsement from the Martin Luther King County Democratic Central Committee (KCDCC). To receive an endorsement, you must complete a questionnaire. The KCDCC questionnaire is also required by most of the 17 Democratic Legislative District (LD) organizations that overlap King County.
- The following endorsement applications are open:
- City & Town Council & Mayor (for all municipalities except Seattle)
- King County Council & Executive
- Port of Seattle Commissioner
- School Board Director
- Additional jurisdiction applications will be available in March:
- Seattle City Council, Mayor, and City Attorney
- Superior Court and Municipal Court Judge
- State Legislator
- Airport District Commissioner
- Fire and Rescue Commissioner
- Parks and Rec Commissioner
- Pool Commissioner
- Public Hospital Commissioner
- Water/Sewer/Utility/Cemetery Commissioner
- King Conservation District endorsement applications have closed.
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 KCDCC.
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!
Candidate resources
If you are running for office, check out our Candidate Resources page.