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Election 1896 Results

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1896 presidential election in Washington

William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) beat William McKinley (Republican) in Washington in 1896, 57.0% to 41.8%, a margin of 15.1 points and 14,161 votes.

Washington voted 19.5 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+4.3.

Washington changed party: in 1892 it went Republican, for Benjamin Harrison.

Democrats led in 27 of the 34 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 6. The largest, King, cast 14,305 votes and went to the Democrat by 9.2 points. The closest was Cowlitz, where 15 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
William Jennings Bryan won	Democratic	53,314	57.0%
William McKinley	Republican	39,153	41.8%
All other candidates		1,116	1.2%
Total		93,583

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	7,733 54.1%	6,413 44.8%	159	14,305	D+9.2
Pierce	5,570 54.1%	4,651 45.1%	82	10,303	D+8.9
Spokane	5,829 67.4%	2,701 31.2%	122	8,652	D+36.2
Whitman	3,690 68.8%	1,592 29.7%	85	5,367	D+39.1
Snohomish	2,858 59.9%	1,871 39.2%	45	4,774	D+20.7
Whatcom	2,227 52.2%	1,971 46.2%	72	4,270	D+6.0
Walla Walla	1,716 51.2%	1,596 47.6%	39	3,351	D+3.6
Lewis	1,654 50.2%	1,594 48.3%	49	3,297	D+1.8
Clarke	1,547 49.8%	1,497 48.2%	60	3,104	D+1.6
Skagit	1,623 55.6%	1,268 43.4%	30	2,921	D+12.2
Chehalis	1,350 51.1%	1,267 48.0%	24	2,641	D+3.1
Lincoln	1,771 68.4%	781 30.2%	36	2,588	D+38.3
Thurston	1,415 56.9%	1,052 42.3%	22	2,489	D+14.6
Kittitas	1,336 55.5%	1,044 43.4%	26	2,406	D+12.1
Stevens	1,926 80.4%	433 18.1%	36	2,395	D+62.3
Yakima	1,266 56.8%	948 42.6%	13	2,227	D+14.3
Cowlitz	974 49.0%	989 49.7%	25	1,988	R+0.8
Columbia	862 52.2%	776 47.0%	13	1,651	D+5.2
Klickitat	708 44.4%	876 54.9%	11	1,595	R+10.5
Pacific	562 37.2%	925 61.2%	24	1,511	R+24.0
Kitsap	728 48.9%	728 48.9%	33	1,489	level
Clallam	717 55.7%	559 43.4%	11	1,287	D+12.3
Jefferson	536 42.9%	704 56.3%	10	1,250	R+13.4
Okanogan	950 76.0%	284 22.7%	16	1,250	D+53.3
Douglas	733 68.1%	334 31.0%	10	1,077	D+37.0
Mason	667 61.9%	397 36.9%	13	1,077	D+25.1
Garfield	482 55.1%	378 43.2%	15	875	D+11.9
San Juan	291 41.3%	411 58.3%	3	705	R+17.0
Wahkiakum	396 57.5%	290 42.1%	3	689	D+15.4
Adams	372 59.4%	243 38.8%	11	626	D+20.6
Asotin	269 55.2%	214 43.9%	4	487	D+11.3
Island	191 47.2%	206 50.9%	8	405	R+3.7
Skamania	252 66.7%	122 32.3%	4	378	D+34.4
Franklin	113 73.9%	38 24.8%	2	153	D+49.0

Counties as they stood in 1896; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Washington in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+18.2
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+19.2
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+15.7
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+14.9
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+17.2
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+7.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+5.6
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+12.5
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+11.4
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+1.6
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+13.5
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.3
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+3.9
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+18.3
1968	Hubert Humphrey (D)	D+2.1
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+24.6
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+2.4
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+8.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+9.6
1948	Harry S. Truman (D)	D+9.8
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+14.6
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+17.6
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+36.5
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+23.5
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+35.7
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+42.1
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+34.8
1916	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+4.2
1912	Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+25.8
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+50.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+11.7
1896	William Jennings Bryan (D)	D+15.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+7.6

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