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Washington has 12 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [3] 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.
As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time Washington has voted for a Republican in a presidential election, as well as the last time that King County, Pierce County, Thurston County, and San Juan County voted Republican. [1] One of the electors, Fred Nimmo, was unable to attend the meeting and was replaced by Bob Bristow.
[2] [3] It has had twelve electoral votes since 2012, when it gained a tenth congressional district during reapportionment based on the results of the 2010 U.S. census. [4] [5] Washington has conducted its presidential elections through mail-in voting since 2012 for general elections and 2016 for party primaries. [6]
See live updates of Washington election results from the 2024 election, including Senate, House and Gubernatorial races and ballot initiatives.
Although Washington was a Republican-leaning swing state until the 1980s, Democrats have won Washington in every presidential election starting in 1988 and have consistently done so by double digits since 2008. Washington is part of the Democratic-leaning West Coast, and was predicted to go comfortably to the Democratic Party in 2024.
The reporting system is one of the final steps before county officials upload their results to the Washington Secretary of State’s website. ... Six Thurston County election officials are coming ...
King County, home to the city of Seattle and its surrounding suburbs, was and is by far the most heavily populated county in the state, and a bellwether county for the state as a whole. In every presidential election since Washington achieved statehood, the candidate who won King County also won Washington state as a whole.
As of the 2020 presidential election, Reagan's 1980 effort remains the last Republican win in Jefferson County and was the last in Cowlitz County until 2016. [ 1 ] Third-party candidate John B. Anderson did well in Western Washington , gaining many voters from disaffected major-party supporters and exceeding 14 percent of the vote in Kitsap and ...