Legislative District 29 - State Senator (4-year term)
Legislative (Senate) District 29; Washington
My vote power
High
Election date
November 3, 2026 · General election
How do we calculate my vote power?
What goes into the rating: Representation: how much weight one vote carries here compared with a statewide vote — the smaller the district, the more each vote counts. Decisiveness: how likely this race is to be close, based on past results or current analyst ratings, plus the number of candidates.
Representation: High · 68 out of 100
This district is a small slice of its state, so each vote here carries much more weight than a vote in a statewide race. About 155,861 people live here.
Show the representation math
score = 50 + 50 × ln(state population ÷ this district's) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50 + 50 × ln(7,816,116 ÷ 155,861) ÷ ln(50,000) = 68.09, measured against a statewide vote in WA (grades: 66+ high, 55+ above average, 33+ average, otherwise low; a statewide race is the 50 baseline)
Decisiveness: Unknown
No analyst ratings or past results for this contest yet.
High representation → My vote power: High.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information and capped at "High".
About this office
- Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
- Voting on how much money your local public schools get
- Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired
Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,
Candidates
Democratic · declared
David Anderson is a small business owner who describes himself as not a politician and says he wants to shake up the political world. He grew up lower middle class and says he knows what it is like to look in the pantry and have nothing to eat.
Democratic · declared
Sharlett Mena is the daughter of immigrants who came to the United States as farm workers and the first in her family to graduate college, earning a Bachelor of Arts from Washington State University. She began her public service career working in Congressional offices in Washington, D.C.
Records: Labor Rights 24 for, Housing Affordability 12 for, Corporate Accountability 11 for,
Sources: sos.wa.gov23