Election 2014

Voter turnout in Washington state could be a 36-year low. Not since 1978 has such a small percentage of registered voters participated in a Washington…

Washington voters are narrowly passing a class-size measure that comes with a multi-billion dollar price tag.Initiative 1351 was trailing on election…

Undaunted and optimistic – that’s the attitude Gov. Jay Inslee says he has about working with the legislature after Tuesday’s elections. The governor says…

After a second day of vote counting, an initiative that would limit class sizes in Washington state is still virtually tied.The measure is passing in some…

The Republican capture of the U.S. Senate was the big national news on election night. But in the Northwest, the toughest fights weren’t over Senate seats…

Voters in Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska and South Dakota overwhelmingly approved minimum-wage hikes. Illinois voters approved a nonbinding wage-hike referendum. Recreational pot was approved in Oregon.

Washington Democrats appear to have failed in their bid to retake control of the state Senate. Early election returns Tuesday night showed Republicans…

Seattle voters widely approved a proposition to pay for Metro transit, even though the funding crisis that motivated the measure has subsided.The transit…

Voters have returned Democratic U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen to Congress.Larsen defeated Republican B.J. Guillot on Tuesday to represent the 2nd Congressional…

Democratic U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene has clinched a second term to represent Washington state's redrawn 1st Congressional District.DelBene, a former…