# Hunter Abell

Hunter Abell is a Republican member of the Washington House for district 7.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Washington House, district 7
- Serving since: 2025-01-13
- Current term: WA 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/ea5ab101-aa06-49f0-95b7-81bf9f96967f

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ea5ab101-aa06-49f0-95b7-81bf9f96967f (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 Abell’s itemized money in the 2026 cycle came from Washington, in the top quarter of State House Republicans.

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.40 (standard error 0.03), from 80 donors and 293 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 58% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Votes (WA 2025–26 session)

1,201 roll calls. Attendance 98.2% (Washington House 97.4%). Party unity 95.0% (94.5%). 62 votes against the party majority.

## Legislation (WA 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 21 bills: 21 reached committee, 7 passed one chamber, 4 passed both, 4 became law. Cosponsored 62. 33.3% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Washington House 27.1%; rank 31 of 96).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 4699: Honoring Dean Brazle. (passed one chamber, 2026-03-02) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HR4699/
- HR 4694: Honoring Navy personnel. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-27) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HR4694/
- HR 4688: Honoring Rod Hergesheimer. (passed one chamber, 2026-02-24) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HR4688/
- HB 2514: Establishing a global war on terror memorial on the capitol campus. (in committee, 2026-02-09) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2514/
- HB 2342: Establishing the Washington state religious liberty commission. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2342/
- HB 2239: Providing Washingtonians and their loved ones with location choices for interment of remains. (became law, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2239/
- HB 2221: Restoring and sustaining healthy ungulate populations. (in committee, 2026-01-30) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2221/
- HB 2197: Designating English as the official language of the state. (in committee, 2026-01-12) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2197/
- HB 2179: Concerning membership in the public employees' retirement system for port workers who participate in a federal railroad retirement plan, a union-sponsored… (became law, 2026-03-23) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2179/
- HB 2158: Concerning electronic notarial acts. (became law, 2026-03-11) https://openstates.org/wa/bills/2025-2026/HB2158/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $29.4K (State House Republicans median $33.7K). 100% of itemized individual money came from in state. Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: http://hunterabell.houserepublicans.wa.gov
- Campaign site: https://voteabell.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hunter.m.abell
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Hunter-Abell-for-State-Legislature-WA7-61557828358617/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hunterabell/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/ea5ab101-aa06-49f0-95b7-81bf9f96967f