Washington’s Kreidler Wins Fourth Term

Incumbent Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won 57.7 percent of the vote in his re-election bid for state insurance commissioner, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’s longest currently serving insurance commissioner.

The Democrat Kreidler, a former state legislator and former member of Congress, now enters his fourth term in office. According to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners that puts him in a class by himself as the longest serving insurance commissioner in recent memory.

Kreidler beat insurance broker John Adams, his Republican challenger, who garnered 42.3 percent of the votes.