RCW 36.32.050
Election.
(1) Except as provided otherwise in subsection (2) of this section or this chapter, county commissioners shall be elected by the qualified voters of the county and the person receiving the highest number of votes for the office of commissioner for the district in which he or she resides shall be declared duly elected from that district.
(2) Beginning in 2022, in any noncharter county with a population of four hundred thousand or more, county commissioners must be nominated and elected by the qualified electors of the commissioner district in which he or she resides. The person receiving the highest number of votes at a general election for the office of commissioner for the district in which he or she resides must be declared duly elected from that district.
[ 2018 c 301 § 7; 2009 c 549 § 4063; 1963 c 4 § 36.32.050. Prior: 1895 c 110 § 1; 1893 c 39 § 1; 1891 c 67 § 6; 1890 p 317 § 3; RRS § 4042.]
NOTES:
Findings—Short title—2018 c 301: See notes following RCW 36.32.051.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 36.32 - County Commissioners.
36.32.005 - "County commissioners" defined.
36.32.010 - Board of commissioners established—Quorum.
36.32.020 - Commissioner districts—Voluntary change to electoral system.
36.32.030 - Terms of commissioners.
36.32.040 - Nomination by districts—Voluntary change to electoral system.
36.32.051 - District-based elections—Definitions.
36.32.052 - District-based elections—When required—Procedures.
36.32.053 - District-based elections—Redistricting committee—Membership.
36.32.054 - District-based elections—Redistricting committee—Districting plan—Requirements.
36.32.055 - Five-member commission—When authorized—Ballot proposition—Petition—Procedures.
36.32.0558 - Five-member commissions—Vacancies.
36.32.060 - Conditions of official bond.
36.32.070 - Vacancies on board.
36.32.090 - Special meetings—Joint special meetings.
36.32.100 - Chair of board—Election, powers.
36.32.120 - Powers of legislative authorities.
36.32.121 - Community revitalization financing—Public improvements.
36.32.122 - Authority to regulate massage therapists—Limitations.
36.32.125 - Adoption of certain regulations proscribed.
36.32.127 - Driving while under the influence of liquor or drugs—Minimum penalties.
36.32.130 - Postponement of action.
36.32.140 - Record of proceedings.
36.32.150 - Transcribing mutilated records.
36.32.155 - Transcribing mutilated records—Prior transcribing validated.
36.32.160 - Transcribing mutilated records—Auditor to direct transcribing, certify.
36.32.170 - Transcribing mutilated records—Original records to be preserved.
36.32.200 - Special attorneys, employment of.
36.32.210 - Inventory of county capitalized assets.
36.32.232 - Contract goals for county electric ferry vessel procurement.
36.32.234 - Competitive bids—Electric ferries.
36.32.245 - Competitive bids—Requirements—Advertisements—Exceptions.
36.32.253 - Competitive bids—Leases of personal property.
36.32.256 - Competitive bids—Multiple awards for road maintenance materials.
36.32.260 - Competitive bids—Purchasing agent.
36.32.270 - Competitive bids—Exemptions.
36.32.280 - Regulation of watercourses.
36.32.290 - Regulation of watercourses—Removal of obstructions.
36.32.300 - Regulation of watercourses—Trees may be removed from riverbanks.
36.32.302 - Transfer of ownership of county-owned vessel—Review of vessel's physical condition.
36.32.304 - Transfer of ownership of county-owned vessel—Further requirements.
36.32.330 - Appeals from board's action.
36.32.335 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Legislative declaration.
36.32.340 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Duties incident to.
36.32.350 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Coordinating agency—Agency reimbursement.
36.32.360 - Coordination of county administrative programs—Attendance at conventions authorized.
36.32.380 - Land surveys—Record of surveys.
36.32.390 - Nonmonthly employees, vacations and sick leaves.
36.32.400 - Health care and group insurance.
36.32.410 - Participation in Economic Opportunity Act programs.
36.32.415 - Low-income housing—Loans and grants.
36.32.420 - Youth agencies—Establishment authorized.
36.32.430 - Parks, may designate name of.
36.32.435 - Historic preservation—Authorization to acquire property, borrow money, issue bonds, etc.
36.32.450 - Tourist promotion.
36.32.460 - Employee safety award programs.
36.32.475 - Regulation of automatic number or location identification—Prohibited.
36.32.480 - Emergency medical service districts—Creation authorized—Composition of governing body.
36.32.490 - County freeholders—Method of filling vacancies.
36.32.510 - Right-of-way donations—Credit against required improvements.
36.32.520 - Child care facilities—Review of need and demand—Adoption of ordinances.
36.32.540 - Settlement of Indian claims.
36.32.550 - Conformance with chapter 43.97 RCW required.
36.32.570 - Conservation area acquisition and maintenance.
36.32.580 - Home rule charter counties subject to limitations on moratoria, interim zoning controls.
36.32.600 - Amateur radio antennas—Local regulation to conform with federal law.