Washington State Political Loan Records 2009-2026

17 years of candidate and political committee loan data from Washington State. The dataset contains information on loans received, repayments, interest payments, and loans forgiven. It is published by the Washington State Public Disclosure Commission.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in loans received by political committees over the 17-year period to identify election cycle financing patterns.
• Calculate the ratio of loans forgiven to loans repaid to assess financial risk for different candidate types.
• Model the relationship between interest payments and loan amounts to understand the cost of political borrowing.

Strengths

• Covers a long temporal span of 17 years of political finance data.
• Includes specific transaction types: loans received, repayments, interest payments, and loans forgiven.
• Published by the authoritative State of Washington Public Disclosure Commission.

Limitations

• The exact number of records and available data fields are unknown.
• Data descriptions are not legal definitions, requiring consultation of RCW and WAC statutes for precise interpretation.
• Use is restricted by statute and cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Provenance

Source

Washington State Public Disclosure Commission

Time Range

Last 17 years (approximately 2009-2026)

Freshness

Data was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Washington State, USA