Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler won nearly six in 10 votes in his re-election bid, giving him bragging rights as the U.S.’s longest currently serving insurance commissioner.
Kreidler won 57.7 percent of the vote, while insurance broker John Adams, his Republican challenger, garnered 42.3 percent of the votes.
The Democrat now entering his fourth term said that over the next four years Washington’s insurance community and its consumers can expect his top priorities to include implementing the Affordable Care Act, tackling climate change and doing battle with not-for-profit health insurers that he says have built up excessive surpluses.
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