Washington local trial court judicial elections, 2017
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Elections
Superior court
Spokane County
Position 6
General election
- ☑ Tony Hazel (i)
- ☐ Jocelyn Cook
Primary election
- ☑ Tony Hazel (i)
- ☑ Jocelyn Cook
- ☐ J. Scott Miller
Yakima County
Position 1
- ☑ Kevin Naught (i) (automatically re-elected without opposition)
Additional elections
- See also: Washington elections, 2017
Washington's local judicial elections shared the ballot with races for state court seats and school boards throughout the state. Ballotpedia covered municipal elections in Seattle and county elections in King County because Seattle - located in King County - is one of the 100 largest cities by population in the United States.
Election rules
Primary election
Primaries are held only if more than two candidates file for a position. These contests are nonpartisan in nature.[2] The two candidates who receive the greatest number of votes in the primary advance to the general election. Until 2013, a candidate who won over 50 percent of the vote in the primary was then unopposed in the general election. But the law was amended in 2013. Since that amendment, the top two finishers in a judicial primary must advance to compete with each other in the general election.[3][4][5]
General election
In counties with a population greater than 100,000, if only one superior court candidate files for election for a judgeship, that candidate is automatically elected and the county does not hold a general election for the seat.[6] According to the 2010 census, the following counties had populations greater than 100,000:[7]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "2017 Candidates Who Have Filed," accessed May 30, 2017
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "RCW 29A.52.220," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ Washington State Legislature, "RCW 29A.36.170," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ Washington Courts, "Judicial Election Information," July 13, 2012
- ↑ Washington Courts, "2013 Legislative Summary," accessed July 26, 2016
- ↑ Washington Secretary of State, "Judicial Elections in Washington State," accessed April 30, 2014
- ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "Washington: Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2013," accessed July 24, 2014
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State courts:
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State resources:
Courts in Washington • Washington judicial elections • Judicial selection in Washington
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