- Lead
- 18,664
- Total
- 78,391
- vs nation
- D+25.3
Washington 3rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 19,562
- Total
- 84,086
- vs nation
- D+18.8
- Lead
- 11,101
- Total
- 67,495
- vs nation
- D+14.4
- Lead
- 14,016
- Total
- 64,538
- vs nation
- D+17.9
- Lead
- 16,886
- Total
- 63,916
- vs nation
- D+19.1
- Lead
- 9,550
- Total
- 56,203
- vs nation
- D+19.4
- Lead
- 9,221
- Total
- 48,744
- vs nation
- D+18.4
- Lead
- 13,023
- Total
- 46,744
- vs nation
- D+19.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+23.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 156,5912024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,847 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 40.7 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $71,7492024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 77.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+74.7 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (Senate) District 49, WA · twin score 92.8
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 3rd State Senate 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
86.9%
2,171 votes · D+74.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 80.1%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
58.7%
1,874 votes · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 51.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
50,149votes
59.6% of the vote · D+23.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 46,906 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
30,587votes
36.4% of the vote · D+23.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 28,242 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
+80.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+74.7 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · +37.8 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+9.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · −6.0 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.
Washington 3rd State Senate District sits in the Pacific Northwest. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 74.7 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 29.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.8 points.
A population of 156,591, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $71,749 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (Senate) District 49 and Legislative (Senate) District 22.
The state-senate 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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