Election 2016

Official Washington State Election ResultsU.S. Senate: Patty Murray (D) 60%U.S. Representative D.5: McMorris Rodgers (R) 58% U.S. Representative D.4: Newhouse (R) 57%Wa. Governor: Inslee (D) 56%Wa. Lt. Governor: Habib (D) 55%Wa. Secretary of State: Wyman (R) 53%Wa. State Treasurer: Davidson (R) 58%Wa. State Auditor: McCarthy (D) 53.52%Wa. Attorney General: Ferguson (D) 68%Wa. Lands Commissioner: Franz (D) 54%Wa. Superintendent of Public Instruction: Reykdal 51%Wa. Insurance Commissioner: Mike Kreidler (D) 59% Spokane Candidates and IssuesEarly Idaho Election Results

Despite ‘Soft-On-Crime’ Attacks, Incumbents Leading In Supreme Court Races

Northwest Public Broadcasting | By Austin Jenkins,

Austin Jenkins

Published November 8, 2016 at 10:58 PM PST

Three incumbent Washington Supreme Court justices appear headed to easy re-election.

Justices Mary Yu, Barbara Madsen and Charlie Wiggins were all leading their challengers by double digit margins.

What’s interesting about this is Wiggins was targeted for defeat by a group of wealthy Washingtonians led by southwest Washington billionaire Ken Fisher. A PAC they funded ran soft-on-crime TV ads against Wiggins.

Meanwhile his challenger got a lot of help from another PAC funded by Paul Allen’s Vulcan and Bill Gates and others. Even so, Wiggins had 58 percent of the vote in early returns.

The Supreme Court races got extra attention this year because of the ongoing school funding case known as McCleary and the court’s decision to throw out voter-approved charter schools.