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Spellman was elected governor in 1980 amid large gains for Republicans across the country. During his tenure, the Washington State economy suffered due to the early 1980s recession. Spellman was defeated in his reelection campaign in 1984. To date, he is the last Republican to have held the office of Governor of Washington. [2]
Despite Republican President Ronald Reagan carrying the state by 13 points in the concurrent 1984 Election. This is the last time that the Washington Governor's office changed partisan control or that an incumbent Governor of Washington lost a general election.
McDermott was defeated in the general election by Republican candidate John Spellman, the King County Executive. As of 2024, this is the last time a Republican was elected Governor of Washington, thus beginning the longest Democratuc streak in any of the 50 state governorships once Spellman left office.
No Republican has won an election as Washington's governor since 1980, when John Spellman was elected. He lost reelection in 1984. Washington has the longest current streak of Democratic governors ...
Populist Party candidate John Rankin Rogers is the only non-Democratic or Republican nominee to win office. The most recent governor to be from Eastern Washington was Clarence D. Martin, elected in 1932. [6] The current governor is Democrat Bob Ferguson, who took office on January 15, 2025.
No state has gone longer without a Republican governor than Washington. Democrats have controlled the governorship for 40 years; the last Republican governor was John Spellman, who left office in 1985. Washington has not voted for a Republican senator, governor, or presidential candidate since 1994, tying with Delaware for the longest streak in ...
Democrat Bob Ferguson defeated Republican Dave Reichert on Tuesday and will become Washington’s next governor. Ferguson, 59, the state’s three-term attorney general, was beating Reichert, 74 ...
John Spellman: Republican: May 1, 1969 January 14, 1981 3+ Resigned to serve as Governor of Washington: 2 Ron Dunlap: Republican January 14, 1981 [b] November 18, 1981 <1 3 Randy Revelle: Democratic: November 18, 1981 January 1, 1986 1 4 Tim Hill: Republican January 1, 1986 January 4, 1994 2 5 Gary Locke: Democratic January 4, 1994 January 15 ...