Justice of the Supreme Court, Position 4
Washington
My vote power
Average
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: Average · 50 out of 100
This district covers a large share of its state, so each vote carries about average weight — like a vote in a statewide race. About 7,816,116 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 ÷ 7,816,116) ÷ ln(50,000) = 50, 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.
Average representation → My vote power: Average.
Some data is missing, so this rating is based on partial information.
About this office
- Deciding what state laws and the state constitution mean
- Setting rulings that lower state courts must follow
- Deciding major criminal and civil cases
Affects: Public Safety and Crime Control, Gun Control, Women's Reproductive Rights,
Candidates
Nonpartisan · declared
Ian Birk has served on Division I of the Washington Court of Appeals since 2022, appointed and then elected that year. He spent two decades as a civil litigator and volunteered more than ten years with neighborhood legal clinics.
Records: Legal Competence 6 for, Civil Rights 5 for, Impartiality 1 for
Nonpartisan · declared
Sean O'Donnell has served as a King County Superior Court judge since 2013, leading criminal and family-court dockets. He is a past president of the statewide Superior Court Judges' Association and has sat as a justice pro tem on the state Supreme Court.
Records: Legal Competence 6 for, 1 against, Civil Rights 4 for, Public Safety and Crime Control 4 for,
Source: voter.votewa.gov