Elected offices In the nonpartisan
2017 Seattle mayoral election, Seattle DSA endorsed
Nikkita Oliver, who ran on the "Seattle People's Party" ballot line and came 3rd in the
top-two primary with 31,366 votes (17.27%). Oliver's local Seattle People's Party campaign was separate from the later national Movement for a People's Party effort. In the nonpartisan
2017 Seattle City Council election, Seattle DSA endorsed Jon Grant, a former Tenants Union of Washington State leader, for Position 8 (at-large). Grant placed 2nd in the top-two primary and lost in the general election with 68,441 votes (43.96%). Morales had previously been a Seattle DSA member, but no longer identified as a socialist. Morales won the top-two primary and won the general election with 16,379 votes (60.47%). Seattle DSA member
Shaun Scott, a former
2016 DNC delegate for Bernie Sanders, announced his campaign
The Stranger. Seattle DSA endorsed Scott, but not Morales. Scott placed 2nd in the top-two primary Lascelles' ballot ran on the "Seattle People's Party" ballot line. and lost the general election with 31,029 votes (33.4%). In the nonpartisan
2021 Seattle City Council election, Seattle DSA endorsed
Nikkita Oliver for Seattle City Council Position 9. Oliver placed 1st in the top-two primary and lost the general election, with 119,025 votes (45.99%). In the
City Attorney election, Seattle DSA endorsed
Nicole Thomas-Kennedy. Thomas-Kennedy placed 1st in the top-two primary Sawant joined DSA in February 2021. Sawant narrowly won the recall by just 310 votes, or 0.76% of the 41,033 votes cast. Sawant left DSA in 2024. In the
2022 US House elections, Seattle DSA endorsed
Stephanie Gallardo for . In the
2023 Seattle City Council election, Seattle DSA endorsed Matthew Mitnick. In March, ten former campaign members published a statement against Mitnick, leading Mitnick to withdraw in April. In the partisan
2024 Washington House of Representatives election, Seattle DSA endorsed DSA member
Shaun Scott for
district 43 position 2. Scott ran on the Democratic ballot line. and won the general with 49,990 votes (68.4%). In 2025,
Katie Wilson won the partisan
Seattle mayoral election as a
Democrat. Wilson is a self-described
democratic socialist, but is not a member and was not endorsed by Seattle DSA.
Ballot initiatives In the 2020s, Seattle DSA increasingly emphasized ballot campaigns, including Seattle social-housing measures and South King County wage initiatives. I-135 passed in the February 14, 2023 special election with 57.09% of the vote. Proposition 1A then defeated Proposition 1B in the February 11, 2025 special election by 63.13% to 36.87%. Seattle DSA backed the 1A campaign. Seattle DSA was a lead organizing group in the "Raise the Wage Renton" campaign, a ballot measure that sought to set the minimum wage at $20.29 for larger employers and $18.29 for smaller covered employers. The measure passed in the February 13, 2024 special election, with 58.04% in favor and 41.96% against, and increased Renton's minimum wage beginning July 1, 2024. == Other campaigns ==