The Washington Community Alliance (WCA) Data Hub is a data-driven resource hub and Washington State’s administrator of the Voter Activation Network (VAN), supporting a network of community-based organizations throughout the state in their civic engagement work. We provide accessible research, responsive technical assistance, and strategic coordination to strengthen voter contact programs, promote high-participation elections, and work towards a thriving, multiracial democracy across Washington.
Interactive Tools
General Elections Dashboard
Explore results from Washington State’s General Elections, including ballot initiatives and federal, statewide, legislative, countywide, and municipal races. Preliminary results will be added on Election Night and updated daily through certification during each General Election.
Primary Elections Dashboard
Explore results from Washington State’s Primary Elections, including contested federal, statewide, legislative, countywide, and municipal races. Preliminary results will be added on Election Night and updated daily through certification during each Primary Election.
Early Vote Dashboard
Explore early vote data from Washington State’s elections, including statistics on ballot returns by age, race, and geography – including county and precinct-level turnout. Data will be updated as made available by the Secretary of State, daily through Election Day for all elections.
Research Reports
Electoral Representation in Washington
Washington’s population has been steadily diversifying in recent years, raising questions of how representative our elected officials are of their constituents. In partnership with the Inatai Foundation, we compared the demographic makeup of Washington’s population with its elected officials across jurisdictions and offices, identifying areas with stark representation gaps. Read more here, including how incumbency and fundraising contribute to representation disparities.
Randomized Trial: Sunnyside GOTV
Mail is a popular tool in large-volume voter outreach programs, despite relatively little data showing any efficacy of mail at motivating voter turnout. In 2023, we partnered with a group of five organizations to compare the efficacy of mail vs door-knocking at turning out infrequent voters in Sunnyside, WA. Read more here for additional details, results, and recommendations for reaching low propensity voters.
Ballot Initiative Impact Analysis
The ballot initiative process is a powerful direct democracy tool, empowering voters to advance popular policies at the ballot box and bypass political gridlock in state and local governments. In a partnership with the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center (BISC), we investigated how ballot initiatives impacted voter turnout in 2022, comparing support for key issue areas with support for partisan candidates for office. Read more here to learn how specific issue types motivated turnout of infrequent voters, and how support for progressive issues differed from support for Democratic candidates.
WIRF Impact Evaluation
As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across Washington, one particularly vulnerable group was left out of direct assistance programs: undocumented Washingtonians, who disproportionately suffered from the acute and long-term effects of the pandemic. Gov. Inslee and the state legislature eventually created the Washington Immigrant Relief Fund (WIRF), providing direct assistance to these communities in 2020 through 2022. Read more here to learn about the program and the impact that it had on specific immigrant communities throughout the state.
Partner Organizations
National Partners
