# Shaun Scott

Shaun Scott is a Democratic member of the Washington House for district 43.

- Party: Democrat
- Seat: Washington House, district 43
- Serving since: 2025-01-13
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/a9d8dd35-6335-42b6-a93b-66be8bd92a56

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a9d8dd35-6335-42b6-a93b-66be8bd92a56 (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 Scott’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Washington, in the top tenth of State House Democrats.

## What Scott says (WA 2025–26 session)

131 classified statements: 131 posts on X. Each rate is the share of statements with the label, against the State House Democrats average; rank 1 is the highest rate.

| Label | Scott | State House Democrats average | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal attacks | 0.0% | 2.5% | 584 of 764 |
| Policy criticism | 38.9% | 10.4% | 13 of 764 |
| Policy discussion | 63.4% | 39.2% | 79 of 764 |
| Bipartisanship | 0.8% | 2.9% | 546 of 764 |
| Credit claiming | 6.9% | 14.4% | 514 of 764 |
| Extreme labels | 6.9% | 1.0% | 22 of 764 |

Most discussed policy areas: Economics and Public Finance 27% (State House Democrats 11%); Health 19% (State House Democrats 15%); Immigration 19% (State House Democrats 4.3%); Taxation 18% (State House Democrats 3.6%); Education 16% (State House Democrats 15%).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score −0.70 (standard error 0.04), from 211 donors and 299 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 38% of State House Democrats score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,201 roll calls. Attendance 100% (Washington House 97.4%). Party unity 98.0% (94.5%). 35 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 18 bills: 18 reached committee, 4 passed one chamber, 4 passed both, 4 became law. Cosponsored 336. 22.2% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington House 27.1%; rank 57 of 96).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HB 2674: Concerning department of health information on dementia. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2674/
- HB 2673: Establishing tax exemptions for property used as affordable housing owned or operated by a social housing agency. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2673/
- HB 2612: Protecting revenues devoted to the workforce education investment account. (in committee, 2026-01-21) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2612/
- HB 2611: Reducing the standard workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours. (in committee, 2026-01-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2611/
- HB 2471: Concerning collective bargaining for employees not covered by the national labor relations act. (became law, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2471/
- HB 2392: Requiring building and construction contractors to use a skilled and trained workforce for performing work at certain hazardous facilities. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2392/
- HB 2097: Authorizing counties to impose a business and occupation tax. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2097/
- HB 2100: Enacting an excise tax on large operating companies on the amount of payroll expenses above the minimum wage threshold of the additional medicare tax to fund… (in committee, 2026-01-22) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2100/
- HB 2089: Supporting wildfire mitigation by modifying RCW 82.04.29005, concerning taxes on loan interest. (became law, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2089/
- HB 1858: Eliminating the exemption for assignments or substitutions of previously recorded deeds of trust from the document recording fee and the covenant… (became law, 2025-04-21) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB1858/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $20.3K (State House Democrats median $40.4K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Recent statements

Newest first. Posts on X are listed by date and link only.

- 2026-10-05 · Post on X · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2107156315940487402
- 2026-10-02 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2105877985421410703
- 2026-10-02 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2105887635961221205
- 2026-09-12 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion, credit claiming · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2098887280538898700
- 2026-08-07 · Post on X · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2085819629918978365
- 2026-05-24 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2058634136940949520
- 2026-05-23 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2058237004928909366
- 2026-05-18 · Post on X · labels: policy discussion · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2056443193311568223
- 2026-05-12 · Post on X · labels: policy criticism, policy discussion · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2054226475965104144
- 2026-05-12 · Post on X · https://x.com/eyesonthestorm/status/2054226855297974571

## Links

- Official site: https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/scott/
- Campaign site: https://www.betterwashington.org
- X: https://x.com/eyesonthestorm
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shaunsscott1984
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Scott43LD/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaun-scott-8a3a72260/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/a9d8dd35-6335-42b6-a93b-66be8bd92a56