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With this election, Clallam County ended its 40-year bellwether streak, voting for the losing presidential candidate for the first time since 1976; Trump thus became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since Richard Nixon in 1968.
Prior to the election, most news organizations forecasted Washington as a state that Biden would win, or a safe blue state. Biden won the state by 19.2%, the largest margin for a presidential candidate of any party since 1964. He also flipped the swing county of Clallam.
Clallam County was a bellwether, voting for the winning candidate in every presidential election from 1980 to 2020, holding the longest record for predicting official presidential election winners in the entire country. [4] It has also voted the winning candidate in every election since 1920 except for 1968, 1976, and 2024. [5] [6]
Port Angeles, Clallam County's biggest city, is a jumping-off point for visitors to British Columbia. It votes reliably Democratic, offsetting more conservative parts of the bellwether county.
Ferguson defeated Reichert with 55.51% of the vote in the general election. [2] He also became the first Democrat to win Clallam County since 2000. This election marked the 11th consecutive election victory of the Democratic candidate for governor of Washington.
Baldwin County, Georgia, in 1980 and 2016; Benzie County, Michigan, in 2012 and 2020; Bexar County, Texas, in 2016 and 2024; Blue Earth County, Minnesota, in 1988 and 2004; Brewster County, Texas, in 2012 and 2020; Buncombe County, North Carolina, in 2016 and 2024; Bureau County, Illinois, in 2012 and 2020; Butte County, California, in 1996 and ...
The 1976 United States presidential election in Washington was held on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
As of 2:20 p.m. Wednesday, the state Elections Department said results from all of Idaho’s 42 other counties were complete except for Kootenai, the home of Coeur d’Alene and the state’s ...