- Lead
- 8,697
- Total
- 93,572
- vs nation
- D+10.8
Washington 26th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,456
- Total
- 94,001
- vs nation
- D+1.3
- Lead
- 670
- Total
- 75,032
- vs nation
- R+1.2
- Lead
- 1,630
- Total
- 71,758
- vs nation
- R+1.6
- Lead
- 2,124
- Total
- 70,635
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 4,021
- Total
- 67,642
- vs nation
- R+3.5
- Lead
- 2,023
- Total
- 58,293
- vs nation
- R+4.0
- Lead
- 1,604
- Total
- 51,563
- vs nation
- R+5.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+9.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 157,6232024 5-year
- Population density
- 740 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 213 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $106,3362024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+42.0 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (House) District 18, WA · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 26th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
69.4%
8,027 votes · D+42.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 65.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
71.9%
1,692 votes · R+57.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 68.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
49,352votes
52.7% of the vote · D+9.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 47,824 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
42,368votes
45.1% of the vote · D+5.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 40,655 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1940
+18.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+28.0 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +17.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+38.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+57.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +29.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
The 2024 presidential margin was D+9.3, one of the narrower results among Washington's state house districts, compared with D+3.0 in 2008. The district had about 134,000 residents, 69.9% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 42.0 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 57.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 3.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.3 points.
A population of 157,623, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $106,336 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (House) District 18 and Legislative (House) District 10.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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