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2021 Seattle City Attorney election
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Turnout54.57%[1]
 
Candidate Ann Davison Nicole Thomas-Kennedy
Party Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Popular vote 132,638 122,947
Percentage 51.5% 47.7%
City Attorney before election

Pete Holmes
Democratic

Elected City Attorney

Ann Davison
Republican

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The 2021 Seattle City Attorney election was held on November 2, 2021. Incumbent City Attorney Pete Holmes sought reelection to a fourth term in office, but came third place in the officially nonpartisan August 3 primary election and failed to advance to the general election, with both Nicole Thomas-Kennedy and Ann Davison finishing ahead of Holmes in the primary. Davison defeated Thomas-Kennedy in the general election.

Primary election[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Declared[edit]

Withdrawn[edit]

Endorsements[edit]

Pete Holmes
Statewide officeholders
State legislators
Judges
Local officeholders
Seattle city councilmembers
Organizations
Individuals

Polling[edit]

Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[b] 		Margin
of error 		Ann
Davison 		Pete
Holmes 		Nicole
Thomas-Kennedy 		Other Undecided
Change Research (D)[A] July 12–15, 2021 617 (LV) ± 4.3% 14% 16% 14% 4%[c] 53%

Results[edit]

Nonpartisan primary results[13]
Party Candidate Votes %
Nonpartisan Nicole Thomas-Kennedy 71,367 36.39
Nonpartisan Ann Davison 64,179 32.72
Nonpartisan Pete Holmes (incumbent) 60,093 30.64
Write-in 500 0.25
Total votes 196,139 100.00

General election[edit]

Candidates[edit]

Declared[edit]

Debate[edit]

2021 Seattle City Attorney debate
No. Date Host Moderator Link Nonpartisan Nonpartisan
Key:
 P  Participant   A  Absent   N  Not invited   I  Invited  W  Withdrawn
Ann Davison Nicole Thomas-Kennedy
1 Oct. 7, 2021 Seattle Channel Brian Callanan YouTube P P

Endorsements[edit]

Ann Davison
Federal officeholders
  • Daniel J. Evans, former U.S. Senator (1983–1989) and Governor of Washington (1965–1977)[11]
Governors
Mayors
Seattle city councilmembers
Judges
  • Bobbe Bridge, former Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court[18]
  • Phil Talmadge, former Associate Justice of the Washington Supreme Court (Democrat)[18]
  • Ronald Cox, former Presiding Chief Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals[18]
  • Ann Schindler, former Presiding Chief Judge of the Washington Court of Appeals[18]
  • Bruce Hilyer, former Presiding Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Laura Inveen, former Presiding Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Sharon Armstrong, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Greg Canova, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Terrence Carroll, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • John Erlick, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Deborah Fleck, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Michael Heavey, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • J. Kathleen Learned, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Barbara Linde, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Nicole MacInnes, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Barbara Mack, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • George Mattson, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Richard McDermott, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Jeffrey M. Ramsdell, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Palmer Robinson, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Carol Schapira, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Mariane Spearman, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Julie Spector, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Jay White, former Judge of the King County Superior Court[18]
  • Kimi Kondo, former Presiding Judge of the Seattle Municipal Court[18]
  • Ed McKenna, former Presiding Judge of the Seattle Municipal Court[18]
  • Judith Montgomery Hightower, former Judge of the Seattle Municipal Court[18]
Local officeholders
Organizations
Media
Individuals
  • Scott Lindsay, former Public Safety Advisor for Seattle mayor Ed Murray and candidate for Seattle City Attorney in 2017[21]
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy
State legislators
Mayors
Seattle city councilmembers
Local officeholders
Organizations
Media
Individuals

Campaign finance[edit]

Candidate totals raised are as of filings on or before November 2, 2021 and totals spent reflect expenditures up to October 25, 2021. Independent expenditures are up-to-date as of filings on or before November 1, 2021.

Candidate Campaign committee Independent expenditure References
Raised Spent For Against
Ann Davison $439,216.26 $370,194.11 $9,930.34 $14,000.00 [42][43][44][45]
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy $428,408.98 $348,061.48 $1,176.29 $425,462.86 [46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]

Polling[edit]

Graphical summary
Poll source Date(s)
administered 		Sample
size[b] 		Margin
of error 		Ann
Davison 		Nicole
Thomas-Kennedy 		Other Undecided
Change Research (D)[A] October 12–15, 2021 617 (LV) ± 4.1% 43% 24% 2%[d] 30%
Strategies 360 (D) September 13–16, 2021 450 (RV) ± 4.6% 19% 16% – 65%
287 (LV) ± 5.8% 26% 19% – 55%
Elway Research September 7–9, 2021 400 (LV) ± 5.0% 26% 22% 8%[e] 45%

Results[edit]

General election results[1]
Party Candidate Votes %
Nonpartisan Ann Davison 132,638 51.49
Nonpartisan Nicole Thomas-Kennedy 122,947 47.73
Write-in 2,004 0.78
Total votes 257,589 100.00

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Some districts also include precincts outside of Seattle.
  2. ^ a b Key:
    A – all adults
    RV – registered voters
    LV – likely voters
    V – unclear
  3. ^ "Would not vote" with 4%
  4. ^ "Would not vote" with 2%
  5. ^ "Neither One" And "No Opinion" with 4%
Partisan clients
  1. ^ a b This poll was sponsored by the Northwest Progressive Institute

References[edit]

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External links[edit]

Official campaign websites
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Seattle_City_Attorney_election