U.S. Representative
Election Results
Candidate | Votes | Pct |
---|---|---|
Michael Baumgartner (R) | 240,619 | 60.66% |
Carmela Conroy (D) | 156,074 | 39.34% |
* Race percentages are calculated with data from the Secretary of State's Office, which omits write-in votes from its calculations when there are too few to affect the outcome. The Spokane County Auditor's Office may have slightly different percentages than are reflected here because its figures include any write-in votes.
Results by Precinct
The Candidates
Michael Baumgartner
- Party:
- Republican
- Age:
- 49
- City:
- Spokane, Washington
Education: Graduated from Pullman High School in 1995, after attending Gonzaga Prep for two years. Graduated from Washington State University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Graduated from Harvard University in 2002 with a master’s degree in public administration.
Work experience: Worked for office of the Crown Prince of Dubai as economic development adviser for about a year starting in June 2002. Worked two years starting in the spring of 2003 for i4, a company that hoped to build a telecommunication network in Saudi Arabia. Worked as Dubai-based business consultant for about a year. Worked as consultant for Hecla Mining related to gold mine in Venezuela for several months in 2006. Worked as economics officer for the U.S. State Department in Iraq for about a year starting in spring 2007. Worked for Civilian Police International, a State Department contractor, in Afghanistan on a counter-narcotics program for about eight months starting in December 2008. Provided pre-deployment advisory to U.S. military on counterinsurgency. Lecturer on counterinsurgency at Sciences Po University in Paris.
Political experience: Has served as Spokane County treasurer after winning election in 2018 and 2022. Previously elected to state Senate in 2010, unseating Democratic incumbent Chris Marr. Re-elected in 2014. Unsuccessfully challenged Democratic U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell in 2012. Previously served as vice chairman of Senate Ways and Means Committee and chairman of Commerce and Labor committee.
Family: Married to Eleanor Baumgartner. Has five children.
Carmela Conroy
- Party:
- Democratic
- Age:
- 62
- City:
- Spokane, Washington
Education: Earned master's degree from U.S. Naval War College School of Command & Staff in 2004, law degree from the University of Washington School of Law in 1990 and bachelor's degree in international studies from the University of Washington. Attended Stanford University summer intensive Japanese language program in 1988.
Work Experience: Worked as a foreign service officer in the U.S. Department of State from 1996-2020. Key assignments included: Director of the Japanese Language & Area Studies Field School in Yokohama; political-economic counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo; consul general, U.S. Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan; regional refugee coordinator at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan; political-military affairs chief, U.S. Consulate General in Naha, Japan; political advisor, Provincial Reconstruction Team in Bamyan Afghanistan; watch officer, State Operations Center; political-military affairs officer at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. Deputy prosecutor in the criminal division in the Spokane County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office from 1992-1996.
Political Experience: First run for office. Former chair of the Spokane County Democratic Party.
Family: Single with no children.
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