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Washington

Office (updates table and map)

President margin by year

Place winner margin

1892–2024 · D minus R

Full record · 1892 → 2024

2024StatewideD+18.2

39 counties by 2024 margin · County presidential returns

County results39 areas · 2024 President vote · select an area for its full record

KingD+51.3Dem 832,606Rep 252,193Other 45,703Total 1,130,502San JuanD+51.1Dem 9,539Rep 2,890Other 577Total 13,006JeffersonD+45.1Dem 17,459Rep 6,324Other 915Total 24,698WhatcomD+24.7Dem 83,295Rep 49,213Other 5,360Total 137,868KitsapD+20.8Dem 91,731Rep 59,080Other 6,061Total 156,872ThurstonD+20.3Dem 95,663Rep 62,282Other 6,592Total 164,537SnohomishD+18.8Dem 240,099Rep 161,371Other 16,751Total 418,221IslandD+16.5Dem 29,595Rep 20,967Other 1,887Total 52,449PierceD+10.7Dem 235,169Rep 188,194Other 16,218Total 439,581WhitmanD+8.9Dem 10,480Rep 8,699Other 848Total 20,027SkagitD+8.8Dem 36,956Rep 30,765Other 2,535Total 70,256ClallamD+7.8Dem 25,440Rep 21,632Other 1,591Total 48,663ClarkD+6.9Dem 143,206Rep 123,998Other 9,374Total 276,578PacificR+1.3Dem 6,825Rep 7,010Other 409Total 14,244MasonR+2.5Dem 17,215Rep 18,127Other 1,347Total 36,689SpokaneR+4.9Dem 131,163Rep 145,338Other 10,581Total 287,082Grays HarborR+6.0Dem 17,161Rep 19,432Other 1,200Total 37,793Walla WallaR+8.0Dem 13,106Rep 15,476Other 986Total 29,568KlickitatR+9.3Dem 5,917Rep 7,178Other 515Total 13,610ChelanR+9.4Dem 18,397Rep 22,363Other 1,431Total 42,191SkamaniaR+11.1Dem 3,147Rep 3,961Other 247Total 7,355YakimaR+14.3Dem 36,706Rep 49,368Other 2,677Total 88,751KittitasR+14.5Dem 10,810Rep 14,645Other 1,044Total 26,499OkanoganR+14.9Dem 8,466Rep 11,555Other 710Total 20,731WahkiakumR+18.1Dem 1,204Rep 1,757Other 101Total 3,062CowlitzR+19.8Dem 22,825Rep 34,580Other 1,920Total 59,325BentonR+21.7Dem 37,662Rep 59,555Other 3,476Total 100,693FranklinR+22.6Dem 11,884Rep 19,086Other 927Total 31,897AsotinR+25.5Dem 4,082Rep 7,004Other 382Total 11,468DouglasR+26.8Dem 7,410Rep 13,095Other 677Total 21,182FerryR+32.8Dem 1,315Rep 2,667Other 137Total 4,119LewisR+32.8Dem 14,433Rep 29,322Other 1,583Total 45,338GrantR+37.3Dem 10,806Rep 24,326Other 1,121Total 36,253Pend OreilleR+39.4Dem 2,461Rep 5,826Other 258Total 8,545AdamsR+43.1Dem 1,455Rep 3,767Other 143Total 5,365ColumbiaR+43.3Dem 661Rep 1,737Other 87Total 2,485StevensR+43.9Dem 7,492Rep 19,895Other 859Total 28,246GarfieldR+47.6Dem 330Rep 973Other 49Total 1,352LincolnR+50.3Dem 1,678Rep 5,272Other 194Total 7,144

People and households

Who lives here

Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.

Race · ethnicity · ancestry

Communities and origins

German14.5%12.5%

English12.1%9.5%

Irish9.8%9.4%

Norwegian4.0%—

American3.8%5.3%

Italian3.1%4.8%

Scottish2.6%1.3%

Swedish1.8%—

Mexican10.8%11.3%

Puerto Rican0.5%1.8%

Spaniard0.4%—

Salvadoran0.4%0.7%

Spanish0.3%—

Guatemalan0.2%0.5%

Colombian0.2%0.4%

Chinese2.2%1.3%

Asian Indian2.0%1.4%

Filipino1.5%0.9%

Vietnamese1.1%0.6%

Korean0.9%0.4%

Japanese0.4%0.2%

Cambodian0.3%—

African American†2.3%9.9%

African0.4%0.5%

Ethiopian0.3%—

Somali0.2%—

Samoan0.2%—

Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.

Age and life stage

Measure	Washington	United States
Median age	38.5	39.1
Age 18–24	8.5%	9.2%
Age 65 and older	16.7%	17.2%

Household economy

Measure	Washington	United States
Median household income	$98,141	$84,427
Poverty rate	9.9%	12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)	39.3%	35.6%

Housing and tenure

Measure	Washington	United States
Owner-occupied homes	63.8%	65.2%
Renter-occupied homes	36.2%	34.8%
Median home value	$564,600	$332,700
Median gross rent (monthly)	$1,760	$1,413
Renters paying 30%+ of income	49.9%	51.1%
Vacant housing units	7.3%	10.1%

Getting to work

Measure	Washington	United States
Mean commute	26.6 min	26.4 min
Commutes 60 minutes or more	8.8%	8.6%
Drives alone to work	63.4%	68.8%
Takes public transit	3.4%	3.2%
Works from home	19.8%	15.1%

Languages at home

Measure	Washington	United States
Speaks a non-English language at home	21.5%	22.3%
Spanish	9.1%	13.6%
Other Indo-European	2.1%	2.0%
Chinese (incl. Mandarin & Cantonese)	1.9%	1.1%
Other Asian & Pacific Island	2.1%	1.1%

Religious landscape

Measure	Washington	United States
Catholic	10.7%	18.6%
Evangelical Protestant	20.5%	16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted	58.8%	51.5%

Origins and service

Measure	Washington	United States
Foreign-born residents	15.4%	14.1%
Naturalized citizens	7.5%	7.4%
Not U.S. citizens	7.9%	6.8%
Veterans (18+)	7.8%	6.2%
Income inequality (Gini)	0.469	0.483

American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations · American Community Survey 2024 — housing and tenure (B25003, B25002, B25077, B25064, B25070), commuting (B08013, B08303, B08301), origins and service (B05002, B21001, B19083).

President results by year

2024 turnout 70.7% of 5,583,137 citizens 18+

HarrisDemocratic57.2%2,245,849TrumpRepublican39.0%1,530,923KennedyWe The People1.4%54,868

D+18.2

Lead: 714,926
Total: 3,924,243
vs nation: D+19.7
Turnout: 70.7%

BidenDemocratic58.0%2,369,612TrumpRepublican38.8%1,584,651JorgensenLibertarian2.0%80,500

D+19.2

Lead: 784,961
Total: 4,087,631
vs nation: D+14.7
Turnout: 77.0%

ClintonDemocratic52.5%1,742,718TrumpRepublican36.8%1,221,747JohnsonLibertarian4.9%160,879

D+15.7

Lead: 520,971
Total: 3,316,996
vs nation: D+13.6
Turnout: 67.2%

ObamaDemocratic55.8%1,755,396RomneyRepublican41.0%1,290,670JohnsonLibertarian1.3%42,202

D+14.8

Lead: 464,726
Total: 3,145,958
vs nation: D+10.9
Turnout: —

ObamaDemocratic57.7%1,750,848MccainRepublican40.5%1,229,216NaderIndependent1.0%29,489

D+17.2

Lead: 521,632
Total: 3,036,878
vs nation: D+9.9
Turnout: —

KerryDemocratic52.8%1,510,201BushRepublican45.6%1,304,894NaderIndependent0.8%23,283

D+7.2

Lead: 205,307
Total: 2,861,713
vs nation: D+9.6
Turnout: —

GoreDemocratic50.1%1,247,652BushRepublican44.6%1,108,864NaderGreen4.1%103,002

D+5.6

Lead: 138,788
Total: 2,488,745
vs nation: D+5.1
Turnout: —

ClintonDemocratic49.8%1,123,323DoleRepublican37.3%840,712PerotReform Party8.9%201,003

D+12.5

Lead: 282,611
Total: 2,254,560
vs nation: D+4.0
Turnout: —

Washington voted Democratic for president by 18.2 points in 2024, down a single point from 19.2 in 2020 — one of the smallest changes in the country in a cycle that moved most states toward Donald Trump. The state has backed the Democratic nominee in every election since 1988; the last Republican to carry it was Ronald Reagan in 1984. But the 18-point statewide figure hides a deep split, and the line that draws it is geographic: the Cascade Mountains, which separate the rain-fed Puget Sound metropolis on the west from the dry interior on the east. The two sides vote as if they were different states.

West of the range, five counties around Puget Sound cast 58.9 percent of the statewide vote. King County, which holds Seattle, is the engine: it voted Democratic by 51.3 points in 2024, the state’s widest margin, and its 580,413-vote cushion is four-fifths of Washington’s 714,926-vote statewide margin. Pierce County around Tacoma went Democratic by 10.7, Snohomish by 18.8, Thurston around Olympia by 20.3, and Whatcom — home to Western Washington University in Bellingham — by 24.7. The Seattle area is the demographic core: Asian residents are 9.7 percent of the state, the Chinese and Asian Indian populations each above two percent, tracking the technology economy that has reshaped the region.

East of the Cascades the pattern reverses. The Columbia Basin and the wheat country run heavily Republican: Lincoln County voted Republican by 50.3 points, the state’s widest margin, and Garfield County by 47.6; Benton County in the Tri-Cities by 21.7 and Yakima by 14.3. The exception is Spokane, the largest eastern city, which held Republican by just 4.9 points — closer than 8.3 in 2016 — the eastern swing ground in a region otherwise lopsided. Underneath sits an affluent, secular profile: seventh of the fifty states in median household income at $98,141, eleventh in bachelor’s degrees, and thirteenth in the share claiming no religion, at 58.8 percent.

current representation

Current officeholders

DBob FergusonGovernor

DDenny HeckLieutenant Governor

DSteve HobbsSecretary of State

DNick BrownAttorney General

DMike PellicciottiState Treasurer

DPat McCarthyState Auditor

DDave UpthegroveCommissioner of Public Lands

DPatty KudererInsurance Commissioner

OChris ReykdalSuperintendent of Public Instruction

DMaria CantwellU.S. Senate-0.31

DPatty MurrayU.S. Senate-0.36

U.S. House10 seats · D 8 · R 2

DWA-01Suzan DelBene

DWA-02Rick Larsen

DWA-03Marie Gluesenkamp Perez

RWA-04Dan Newhouse

RWA-05Michael Baumgartner

DWA-06Emily Randall

DWA-07Pramila Jayapal

DWA-08Kim Schrier

DWA-09Adam Smith

DWA-10Marilyn Strickland

Statewide officers curated as of 2026-06-27 (Ballotpedia / Washington SoS); U.S. delegation from Voteview HSall_members.csv.

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