- Lead
- 16,663
- Total
- 80,506
- vs nation
- D+22.2
Washington 44th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,365
- Total
- 85,662
- vs nation
- D+17.0
- Lead
- 11,687
- Total
- 69,095
- vs nation
- D+14.8
- Lead
- 11,395
- Total
- 64,890
- vs nation
- D+13.7
- Lead
- 12,376
- Total
- 62,801
- vs nation
- D+12.4
- Lead
- 4,815
- Total
- 57,655
- vs nation
- D+10.8
- Lead
- 4,372
- Total
- 48,970
- vs nation
- D+8.4
- Lead
- 5,778
- Total
- 43,057
- vs nation
- D+4.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 157,1512024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,488 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 106 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $146,3772024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+46.1 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+54.2 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- Legislative (Senate) District 41, WA · twin score 94.4
presidential history
Party record book
Washington 44th 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
71.0%
4,968 votes · D+46.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 68.0%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
71.8%
1,179 votes · R+54.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 67.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
50,545votes
59.0% of the vote · D+21.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 46,948 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
32,180votes
37.6% of the vote · D+21.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 30,285 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
+26.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +22.2 pts
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
+34.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.2 · U.S. R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +18.8 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 | 75.5%36,743 | 24.5%11,940 | 48,683 |
Washington's 44th Senate District posts margins above 20 points for Democratic presidential candidates, reflecting a dense suburban electorate in the Eastside corridor where college-educated households and tech-sector employment have steadily deepened the district's partisan lean.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 46.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 54.2 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.7 points.
A population of 157,151, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $146,377 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Legislative (Senate) District 41 and Legislative (Senate) District 45.
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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Washington 44th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/53044/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.