Humane Voters Oregon has announced its endorsements for the 2024 General Election! See our full list of endorsed candidates here.
For this election, Humane Voters Oregon endorsed candidates for state Attorney General and Treasurer, and for the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate. We also made endorsements for county commissioner elections in Multnomah, Clackamas and Lincoln counties.
Our endorsements are based on:
Our personal familiarity with the candidate and the candidate's views on animal welfare.
A candidate's voting record on issues affecting animals if the candidate has served in previous sessions of the Oregon Legislature.
A candidate's answers on our candidate questionnaire. This year, our questionnaire included questions on shelter-pet adoption, co-existence with wildlife, animal racing and humane slaughter of animals raised for food, as well as open-ended questions asking generally how a candidate would help promote animal welfare.
If we endorsed a candidate, we believe the candidate, if elected, would support proposed laws and policies that would promote the humane treatment of animals, and would oppose proposed laws and policies that would harm animal welfare. We considered endorsements in all legislative and statewide races. If we did not endorse a candidate in one of those races, it could be because we do not support a candidate in that race, decided to remain neutral in the race, or did not receive a questionnaire response from a candidate we might otherwise support.
If we endorsed a candidate in your district, we hope you will support that candidate with your vote. Please also help us to financially support the campaigns of these candidates. We use donations to our political action committee, Humane Voters Oregon PAC, to support endorsed candidates. You can also volunteer for an endorsed candidate's campaign in the name of animal welfare by letting us know you are interested in doing that. Just send an email to info@humanevotersoregon.org with "Campaign Volunteer" in the subject line.
Finally, you can help make animal welfare more important by letting our endorsed candidates in your area know you are happy to seem them endorsed by us. You can do that by finding their campaign website and using the contact information there to congratulate them on the endorsement and tell them it is important to you.
Thank you for helping us promote animal welfare in Oregon's political process and elections!