Washington's Midterm Ballot, Tacoma Edition: Congress and the Legislature Carry the Year
No governor's race, no statewide executives — Washington's 2026 ballot is about who goes to Congress, who runs Olympia's chambers, and who governs Pierce County. The voter's map.
Washington saves its statewide drama for presidential years. On Nov. 3, 2026, there is no race for governor, attorney general, secretary of state or any other statewide executive on your ballot — those terms run through 2028. What remains is not small: it is the entire federal and legislative layer of the state.
Every Pierce County voter decides a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Tacoma itself is split between two districts — the 6th, running from Tacoma across the Kitsap and Olympic peninsulas, and the 10th, anchored in Olympia and reaching into east Tacoma and the county — so your district depends on your address, and your voters' pamphlet (and VoteWA.gov) names it exactly.
Below Congress: state senators and representatives for Tacoma's legislative districts (the 27th covers most of the city; the 25th, 28th, 29th and 2nd reach other parts of the county), Pierce County offices, Port of Tacoma commissioners, Tacoma City Council and mayoral-cycle races as they fall, school boards and judges. Washington's top-two primary already ran in August, so November pairs the two survivors of each race regardless of party.
However it lands, Tuesday's decisions set the table for Olympia's 2027 session — the budgets, taxes and growth arguments that run through Tacoma's port, its bases and its neighborhoods. Ballots are due in a county drop box by 8 p.m. Tuesday, or postmarked that day. The state counts what arrives on time, publicly, in waves. Your wave starts in a box near you.