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The nine members of the Washington Supreme Court are also elected statewide to six-year terms but on a nonpartisan basis and are not listed here. However all members of the court are considered liberal-leaning, matching the state's overall electorate. [3] [4] Voters do not register as members of political parties.
Washington's congressional districts from 2023. The following is a list of the ten congressional districts in the U.S. state of Washington.From the time that Washington Territory was formed in 1853, through statehood in 1889, Washington Territory elected an at-large non-voting Delegate to the United States House of Representatives.
This was the first time since 1988 that Washington voted to the left of Illinois. The Seattle metropolitan area, home to almost two-thirds of the state's population, is overwhelmingly Democratic. Despite this, even if the votes from King, Snohomish, and Pierce counties were removed, Biden would have carried the state by over 4,000 votes. [5]
Washington's population was 7,705,281 in the 2020 census, [129] a 14.6% increase since the 2010 census. [130] In 2020, the state ranked 13th overall in population, and was the third most populous, after California and Texas, west of the Mississippi River. [ 131 ]
From 1932 to 1948, Democratic candidates won Washington in landslide victories for the presidency and state offices as a result of the Great Depression and New Deal. [8] [9] Washington was characterized as a swing state for the remainder of the 20th century and voted 21 times for the winning candidate from 1892 to 1996.
The simplest measure of party strength in a state voting population is the affiliation totals from voter registration from the websites of the Secretaries of State or state Boards of Elections for the 30 states and the District of Columbia that allow registered voters to indicate a party preference when registering to vote. 20 states [a] do not ...
The Washington State Redistricting Commission is charged with adjusting congressional and legislative district boundaries after each decennial census.Given Washington State's growth over the prior decade, Washington gained an additional congressional district for the 113th congress.
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.