- Lead
- 69,232
- Total
- 88,424
- vs nation
- D+79.8
Washington 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 74,360
- Total
- 93,335
- vs nation
- D+75.2
- Lead
- 62,858
- Total
- 83,872
- vs nation
- D+72.9
- Lead
- 55,901
- Total
- 76,469
- vs nation
- D+69.2
- Lead
- 54,645
- Total
- 72,964
- vs nation
- D+67.6
- Lead
- 46,665
- Total
- 67,604
- vs nation
- D+71.5
- Lead
- 37,320
- Total
- 58,598
- vs nation
- D+63.2
- Lead
- 33,173
- Total
- 55,016
- vs nation
- D+51.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+78.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 157,1352024 5-year
- Population density
- 8,928 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 17.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $120,2642024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+79.7 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+20.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (House) District 43, WA · twin score 99.1
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 46th 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
William J. Bryan1896
89.2%
900 votes · D+78.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 88.5%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
39.7%
506 votes · D+3.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 39.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
82,608votes
88.5% of the vote · D+79.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 77,057 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
11,108votes
27.3% of the vote · D+44.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 9,835 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
William J. Bryan1896
+84.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+78.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +79.8 pts
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
−4.7pts R vs U.S.
Place R+20.5 · U.S. R+25.2 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1912 · −13.4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | D | 74.4%59,763 | 25.6%20,513 | 80,276 |
| 2018 | D | 81.0%51,178 | 19.0%11,991 | 63,169 |
Anchored in central Seattle, this district recorded a 78.3-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024 — among the most concentrated partisan performances of any state house district in the country.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 79.7 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 20.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 78.3 points.
A population of 157,135, a 62% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $120,264 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (House) District 43 and Legislative (House) District 36.
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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