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House Pos. 1

Election Results

Candidate Votes Pct
Mary Dye (R) 50,468 65.07%
Patrick Miller (D) 27,092 34.93%

* 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.

The Candidates

Mary Dye

Party:
Republican
Age:
63
City:
Pomeroy, Washington

Education: Graduated from South Fremont High School in St. Anthony, Idaho, in 1979. Earned a plants and crop management degree from the University of Idaho in 1983.

Work experience: Served in Peace Corps as agricultural educator in Peace Corps in Ubon, Thailand, from 1984 to 1986. Helped build wells and water systems for villages that had none. Co-manages third-generation wheat farm since 1987.

Political experience: Vice chair of the state’s Republican Party from 1994 to 1997. Appointed to state House in 2015 and later elected to the seat that same year. Re-elected in 2016 and every two years since.

Family: Married to Roger Dye. Has three children.

Campaign finance: Dye has raised the most money in the race, collecting more than $74,700 as of Oct. 2, 2024, according to the state Public Disclosure Commission. Top donors include BNSF Railway, Koch-Political Action Committee, the Potato PAC, Boeing, the Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, Amazon, Chevron Corporation and Avista.

Patrick Miller

Party:
Democratic
Age:
45
City:
Cheney, Washington

Education: Graduated from Medical Lake High School. Holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s in computer science from Eastern Washington University.

Work experience: He has previously worked for Battelle, the Air Force Research Lab and SI Government Solutions, which was purchased by Raytheon. He worked as director of the application Security team at GRIMM before retiring in 2021. He currently does computer consulting work.

Political experience: First run for office.

Family: Married to Laurie Miller. Has one child.

Campaign finance: Miller more than $11,300 as of Oct. 2, 2024, according to the PDC. Top donors include Pamela Kohlmeier, the Democratic candidate running for state House Position 2 also in the 9th Legislative District, the Washington State Democratic Central Committee and the 9th Legislative District Democrats.

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