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Woodinville Decides 2025
Informed Voters Make Better Decisions
Woodinville’s city council elections in 2025 are unprecedented in many ways:
- First primary election in over a decade
- Most total candidates: 14
- Highly impactful issues on the horizon
It is not hyperbole to say these could be the most important two elections ever in Woodinville (August 5th and November 4th 2025).
OneWoodinville was started over 3 years ago to better inform the people about their city government and boost civic engagement. Our method has been to inform people on the facts and implications of proposed city policies before decisions are made.
With that in mind, this webpage will host data and analysis of the 2025 campaigns, incumbents, and financial disclosures. All data is from publicly available sources including:
Campaign Financials through May 31st 2025
Contributor Distribution
Funding sources can indicate the level of local support a candidate has. This chart uses public records to identify the inside versus outside Woodinville City limits for each dollar in each campaign.
Analysis Notes:
- WA law gives candidates the option run a "mini-reporting" campaign in which contributions and expenditures are limited to $7,000 and no details are reported to the state. Therefore candidates using mini-reporting must be assumed to have raised & spent $6,999 in all analysis (grey bars).
- One candidate has refused to disclose his home address in Public Disclosure Commission (PDC) filings. Review of King County property records shows this person owns a home in Kirkland (with two mortgages). Yet they declare no rental income on their PDC's financial disclosures. The implication is clear that this Kirkland address is his real home. Therefore this candidate's personal funds are shown to be outside city limits (red) in this graph.
- WA PDC rules give an option for candidates to conceal the identity of donors who give below $250. Therefore these anonymous contributions are treated as outside the city limits (red).
[Update: A previous version failed to one candidate has opted to submit some contributors (anonymous), even though his campaign filed as "mini-reporting" with PDC.]
Spending Types
City Council campaigns will always have some basic expenses: setup a website, buy some signs, t-shirts/buttons, etc. This chart breaks out the reported expenses by type in filings with the WA state Public Disclosure Commission (PDC).
Some unexpected categories were found such as Political Consultants and Charity donations.
Analysis Notes:
- WA law gives candidates the option run a "mini-reporting" campaign in which contributions and expenditures are limited to $7,000 and no details are reported to the state. Therefore candidates using mini-reporting must be assumed to have raised & spent $6,999 in all analysis (grey bars).
- Future commitments are considered expenditures by PDC, even if the money has not yet been spent. This is most apparent in the billboard contracts showing more spent than contributed for one campaign.
- PDC reporting allows for a category of "below $200" incidental expenses.