- Lead
- 7,638
- Total
- 90,680
- vs nation
- D+9.9
Washington 17th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,951
- Total
- 90,699
- vs nation
- D+2.1
- Lead
- 872
- Total
- 69,307
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 2,175
- Total
- 64,325
- vs nation
- R+0.5
- Lead
- 5,842
- Total
- 61,886
- vs nation
- D+2.2
- Lead
- 1,119
- Total
- 57,099
- vs nation
- D+0.5
- Lead
- 1,033
- Total
- 46,031
- vs nation
- R+2.8
- Lead
- 3,569
- Total
- 38,769
- vs nation
- D+0.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+8.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 157,5122024 5-year
- Population density
- 65 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 2,417 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,5662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+48.3 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.7 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (Senate) District 18, WA · twin score 93.9
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 17th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
72.2%
7,296 votes · D+48.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 71.8%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
68.6%
1,755 votes · R+49.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 59.9%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
47,581votes
52.5% of the vote · D+8.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 46,928 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
40,977votes
45.2% of the vote · D+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 39,943 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. Roosevelt1936
+24.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+48.3 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George McGovern, 1972 · +22.4 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+30.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.7 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William H. Taft, 1908 · +16.4 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.
Anchored in rural southeastern Washington, this district delivered a 26.8-point margin in 2024, placing it among the state's most consistently right-leaning constituencies in both federal and state legislative contests.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.3 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 49.7 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.9 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.4 points.
A population of 157,512, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,566 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (Senate) District 18 and Legislative (Senate) District 26.
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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