# Shelly Short

Shelly Short is a Republican member of the Washington Senate for district 7.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Washington Senate, district 7
- Serving since: 2017-02-01
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a45d8fe7-d052-4d18-bc5f-b5911948d42c

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a45d8fe7-d052-4d18-bc5f-b5911948d42c (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

100% of Short’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Washington, in the top quarter of State Senate Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.51 (standard error 0.02), from 106 donors and 1,192 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 72% of State Senate Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,101 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Washington Senate 99.1%). Party unity 98.6% (95.5%). 42 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 20 bills: 20 reached committee, 5 passed one chamber, 3 passed both, 3 became law. Cosponsored 102. 25.0% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington Senate 28.7%; rank 27 of 49).

Recent sponsored bills:

- SR 8688: Recognizing Washington's dairy farms. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-18) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SR8688/
- SJM 8015: Requesting Congress to ensure that federal wildfire response entities have the capacity to protect communities and infrastructure, limit impacts to natural… (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SJM8015/
- SB 5959: Concerning residency requirements for charity care. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5959/
- SB 5960: Restoring and sustaining healthy ungulate populations. (in committee, 2026-02-02) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5960/
- SB 5941: Allowing limited exemptions to renewable energy systems requirements for certain school districts. (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5941/
- SB 5908: Concerning public participation requirements for department of fish and wildlife actions. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5908/
- SB 5905: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored… (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5905/
- SB 5896: Modifying the standards for determining water quality pollution. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5896/
- SB 5899: Creating a license endorsement to allow qualified licensed chiropractors to perform chiropractic diagnosis and adjustments on nonhuman animals. (in committee, 2026-03-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5899/
- SB 5893: Addressing appropriations for long-term forest health and wildfire reduction. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/SB5893/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $74.3K (State Senate Republicans median $46.2K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://shellyshort.src.wastateleg.org/
- Campaign site: https://vote4shelly.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shelly.short.96/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelly-short-100b00120/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellyshort/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a45d8fe7-d052-4d18-bc5f-b5911948d42c