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Election 1936 Results

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1936 presidential election in Washington

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Alf Landon (Republican) in Washington in 1936, 66.4% to 29.9%, a margin of 36.5 points and 252,687 votes.

Washington voted 12.2 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+24.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 1932, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 39 of the 39 counties as they stood then. The largest, King, cast 210,045 votes and went to the Democrat by 34.3 points. The closest was San Juan, where 85 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt won	Democratic	459,579	66.4%
Alf Landon	Republican	206,892	29.9%
All other candidates		25,867	3.7%
Total		692,338

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	138,597 66.0%	66,544 31.7%	4,904	210,045	D+34.3
Spokane	48,117 68.6%	19,951 28.5%	2,057	70,125	D+40.2
Pierce	48,988 70.1%	18,331 26.2%	2,572	69,891	D+43.9
Snohomish	25,081 70.5%	8,882 25.0%	1,606	35,569	D+45.5
Yakima	17,200 54.3%	12,555 39.7%	1,902	31,657	D+14.7
Whatcom	15,428 59.9%	9,035 35.1%	1,293	25,756	D+24.8
Grays Harbor	15,851 73.3%	5,053 23.4%	718	21,622	D+49.9
Clark	12,714 68.5%	4,868 26.2%	972	18,554	D+42.3
Lewis	9,619 57.6%	5,885 35.2%	1,201	16,705	D+22.4
Kitsap	12,414 75.9%	3,440 21.0%	493	16,347	D+54.9
Thurston	10,647 67.5%	4,425 28.1%	703	15,775	D+39.4
Skagit	9,639 61.7%	5,222 33.4%	754	15,615	D+28.3
Cowlitz	10,147 71.0%	3,617 25.3%	528	14,292	D+45.7
Chelan	8,030 59.5%	4,975 36.9%	481	13,486	D+22.7
Whitman	7,753 64.8%	3,955 33.0%	265	11,973	D+31.7
Walla Walla	6,562 56.2%	4,584 39.3%	524	11,670	D+16.9
Okanogan	5,622 64.9%	2,360 27.2%	679	8,661	D+37.7
Clallam	5,586 66.4%	2,404 28.6%	428	8,418	D+37.8
Kittitas	5,044 69.9%	1,941 26.9%	233	7,218	D+43.0
Stevens	4,536 65.4%	1,981 28.6%	418	6,935	D+36.8
Pacific	4,395 68.2%	1,732 26.9%	320	6,447	D+41.3
Grant	4,560 85.6%	694 13.0%	74	5,328	D+72.6
Lincoln	3,627 71.6%	1,325 26.1%	117	5,069	D+45.4
Benton	2,402 53.1%	1,610 35.6%	515	4,527	D+17.5
Mason	3,087 70.2%	1,015 23.1%	296	4,398	D+47.1
Klickitat	2,545 65.3%	1,190 30.5%	163	3,898	D+34.8
Douglas	2,290 66.5%	1,025 29.8%	130	3,445	D+36.7
Asotin	2,261 65.7%	916 26.6%	265	3,442	D+39.1
Jefferson	2,279 66.5%	1,063 31.0%	83	3,425	D+35.5
Pend Oreille	1,903 66.2%	813 28.3%	159	2,875	D+37.9
Island	1,687 60.0%	921 32.7%	205	2,813	D+27.2
Adams	1,944 73.1%	657 24.7%	60	2,661	D+48.4
Franklin	1,784 68.8%	622 24.0%	188	2,594	D+44.8
Columbia	1,391 57.7%	807 33.5%	214	2,412	D+24.2
Skamania	1,863 80.6%	406 17.6%	41	2,310	D+63.1
Garfield	983 58.5%	652 38.8%	44	1,679	D+19.7
San Juan	775 48.6%	690 43.3%	130	1,595	D+5.3
Wahkiakum	1,098 69.4%	419 26.5%	66	1,583	D+42.9
Ferry	1,130 74.5%	320 21.1%	66	1,516	D+53.4

Counties as they stood in 1936; 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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