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Election 1948 Results

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1948 presidential election in Washington

Harry S. Truman (Democrat) beat Thomas E. Dewey (Republican) in Washington in 1948, 52.6% to 42.7%, a margin of 9.8 points and 88,850 votes.

Washington voted 5.3 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1944, when Franklin D. Roosevelt won.

Democrats led in 30 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Republicans in 9. The largest, King, cast 291,635 votes and went to the Democrat by 4.2 points. The closest was Garfield, where 2 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
Harry S. Truman won	Democratic	475,165	52.6%
Thomas E. Dewey	Republican	386,315	42.7%
All other candidates		42,578	4.7%
Total		904,058

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	143,295 49.1%	131,039 44.9%	17,301	291,635	D+4.2
Pierce	50,674 55.8%	34,396 37.9%	5,716	90,786	D+17.9
Spokane	49,649 55.8%	37,086 41.7%	2,253	88,988	D+14.1
Snohomish	25,924 56.0%	17,018 36.8%	3,318	46,260	D+19.3
Yakima	19,760 47.1%	21,396 51.0%	801	41,957	R+3.9
Kitsap	19,538 63.7%	9,869 32.2%	1,271	30,678	D+31.5
Clark	17,154 56.9%	11,546 38.3%	1,432	30,132	D+18.6
Whatcom	13,736 48.3%	12,850 45.2%	1,865	28,451	D+3.1
Grays Harbor	13,660 58.8%	8,357 36.0%	1,198	23,215	D+22.8
Thurston	10,461 50.3%	9,511 45.7%	832	20,804	D+4.6
Cowlitz	11,075 58.6%	7,098 37.6%	729	18,902	D+21.0
Skagit	9,080 49.9%	8,176 44.9%	936	18,192	D+5.0
Lewis	8,394 46.8%	9,047 50.4%	512	17,953	R+3.6
Walla Walla	7,102 46.2%	7,993 52.0%	283	15,378	R+5.8
Chelan	7,702 50.2%	7,392 48.2%	257	15,351	D+2.0
Benton	8,458 58.5%	5,852 40.5%	157	14,467	D+18.0
Whitman	6,015 47.2%	6,411 50.3%	314	12,740	R+3.1
Clallam	5,412 53.6%	4,178 41.4%	507	10,097	D+12.2
Okanogan	5,644 56.8%	4,083 41.1%	208	9,935	D+15.7
Kittitas	4,588 55.0%	3,446 41.3%	314	8,348	D+13.7
Stevens	4,205 56.6%	2,977 40.0%	252	7,434	D+16.5
Pacific	3,902 55.3%	2,749 39.0%	401	7,052	D+16.3
Mason	3,613 55.6%	2,524 38.8%	364	6,501	D+16.8
Grant	4,067 64.8%	2,081 33.2%	129	6,277	D+31.6
Lincoln	2,518 51.1%	2,348 47.7%	58	4,924	D+3.5
Klickitat	2,206 51.9%	1,951 45.9%	95	4,252	D+6.0
Franklin	2,525 61.1%	1,541 37.3%	64	4,130	D+23.8
Douglas	2,251 55.8%	1,703 42.2%	79	4,033	D+13.6
Island	1,694 46.0%	1,805 49.0%	181	3,680	R+3.0
Jefferson	1,911 52.0%	1,610 43.8%	155	3,676	D+8.2
Asotin	2,054 57.3%	1,384 38.6%	145	3,583	D+18.7
Adams	1,267 47.2%	1,394 52.0%	22	2,683	R+4.7
Pend Oreille	1,465 57.1%	1,009 39.3%	93	2,567	D+17.8
Columbia	1,015 48.1%	1,062 50.3%	35	2,112	R+2.2
Skamania	1,067 57.9%	707 38.4%	68	1,842	D+19.5
Wahkiakum	877 54.9%	622 38.9%	98	1,597	D+16.0
San Juan	636 40.4%	881 55.9%	58	1,575	R+15.6
Garfield	747 48.8%	749 48.9%	35	1,531	R+0.1
Ferry	824 61.5%	473 35.3%	43	1,340	D+26.2

Counties as they stood in 1948; 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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