- Lead
- 12,977
- Total
- 62,446
- vs nation
- D+22.3
Washington 28th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,980
- Total
- 67,811
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 8,322
- Total
- 52,704
- vs nation
- D+13.7
- Lead
- 10,394
- Total
- 50,173
- vs nation
- D+16.9
- Lead
- 10,512
- Total
- 48,023
- vs nation
- D+14.6
- Lead
- 5,591
- Total
- 45,187
- vs nation
- D+14.8
- Lead
- 6,559
- Total
- 39,213
- vs nation
- D+16.2
- Lead
- 7,646
- Total
- 35,424
- vs nation
- D+13.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 157,1002024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,001 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 157 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $86,6932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 53.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 14.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+51.6 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+46.0 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (House) District 49, WA · twin score 90.0
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 28th 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
74.2%
7,754 votes · D+51.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 71.4%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
65.4%
1,276 votes · R+46.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 61.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
39,523votes
58.3% of the vote · D+20.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 36,523 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
25,543votes
37.7% of the vote · D+20.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 23,546 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
+29.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+39.5 · U.S. D+9.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +27.3 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+26.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.0 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +16.2 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.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | D | 59.7%32,207 | 40.3%21,760 | 53,967 |
Washington's 28th legislative district, centered in Tacoma, has delivered Democratic presidential margins above 20 points, reflecting a dense, diverse urban electorate that has shifted further left over the past decade.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 46.0 points in 1904. The 2024 margin was 20.8 points.
A population of 157,100, a 53% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $86,693 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (House) District 49 and Legislative (House) District 27.
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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