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Election 1944 Results

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1944 presidential election in Washington

Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in Washington in 1944, 56.8% to 42.2%, a margin of 14.6 points and 125,085 votes.

Washington voted 7.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1940, when Franklin D. Roosevelt also won.

Democrats led in 29 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 10. The largest, King, cast 286,604 votes and went to the Democrat by 16.3 points. The closest was Douglas, where 23 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	486,774	56.8%
Thomas E. Dewey	Republican	361,689	42.2%
All other candidates		7,865	0.9%
Total		856,328

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	165,308 57.7%	118,719 41.4%	2,577	286,604	D+16.3
Pierce	53,269 61.7%	31,626 36.6%	1,475	86,370	D+25.1
Spokane	45,491 55.3%	36,359 44.2%	456	82,306	D+11.1
Snohomish	27,345 63.4%	15,182 35.2%	603	43,130	D+28.2
Yakima	15,643 42.6%	20,864 56.8%	249	36,756	R+14.2
Kitsap	24,016 67.7%	11,224 31.6%	251	35,491	D+36.0
Clark	18,861 59.8%	12,312 39.0%	376	31,549	D+20.8
Whatcom	14,787 52.6%	12,890 45.9%	421	28,098	D+6.8
Grays Harbor	13,803 63.4%	7,834 36.0%	130	21,767	D+27.4
Thurston	9,708 54.6%	7,900 44.5%	158	17,766	D+10.2
Skagit	9,409 54.3%	7,805 45.0%	118	17,332	D+9.3
Cowlitz	10,485 62.4%	6,157 36.7%	157	16,799	D+25.8
Lewis	7,706 46.1%	8,896 53.2%	124	16,726	R+7.1
Chelan	6,557 47.8%	7,081 51.6%	75	13,713	R+3.8
Walla Walla	5,793 43.8%	7,364 55.6%	78	13,235	R+11.9
Whitman	5,449 47.4%	6,000 52.2%	41	11,490	R+4.8
Clallam	5,441 60.1%	3,551 39.2%	59	9,051	D+20.9
Okanogan	4,642 53.0%	4,084 46.6%	38	8,764	D+6.4
Benton	4,233 51.8%	3,905 47.8%	34	8,172	D+4.0
Kittitas	4,227 55.0%	3,423 44.5%	36	7,686	D+10.5
Stevens	3,951 55.1%	3,151 44.0%	63	7,165	D+11.2
Pacific	3,745 60.6%	2,419 39.2%	12	6,176	D+21.5
Mason	3,379 62.6%	1,976 36.6%	42	5,397	D+26.0
Lincoln	2,328 46.0%	2,723 53.8%	15	5,066	R+7.8
Klickitat	2,089 50.6%	1,980 48.0%	58	4,127	D+2.6
Grant	2,354 60.3%	1,530 39.2%	18	3,902	D+21.1
Douglas	1,832 50.0%	1,809 49.4%	24	3,665	D+0.6
Franklin	1,974 58.6%	1,381 41.0%	16	3,371	D+17.6
Asotin	1,888 57.7%	1,367 41.8%	15	3,270	D+15.9
Jefferson	1,829 56.1%	1,415 43.4%	18	3,262	D+12.7
Island	1,662 52.1%	1,487 46.7%	38	3,187	D+5.5
Adams	1,062 38.8%	1,666 60.8%	12	2,740	R+22.0
Pend Oreille	1,385 56.5%	1,052 42.9%	15	2,452	D+13.6
Columbia	1,039 45.8%	1,211 53.3%	20	2,270	R+7.6
Skamania	968 58.8%	668 40.6%	11	1,647	D+18.2
Garfield	677 42.0%	925 57.4%	10	1,612	R+15.4
Wahkiakum	1,003 64.9%	532 34.4%	10	1,545	D+30.5
San Juan	644 47.6%	703 51.9%	7	1,354	R+4.4
Ferry	792 60.2%	518 39.4%	5	1,315	D+20.8

Counties as they stood in 1944; 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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