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Election 1960 Results

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1960 presidential election in Washington

Richard Nixon (Republican) beat John F. Kennedy (Democrat) in Washington in 1960, 50.7% to 48.3%, a margin of 2.4 points and 29,975 votes.

Washington voted 2.6 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower won.

Republicans led in 23 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 16. The largest, King, cast 440,810 votes and went to the Republican by 3.5 points. The closest was Cowlitz, where 49 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
Richard Nixon won	Republican	629,273	50.7%
John F. Kennedy	Democratic	599,298	48.3%
All other candidates		13,001	1.0%
Total		1,241,572

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	208,756 47.4%	224,150 50.8%	7,904	440,810	R+3.5
Pierce	64,292 52.1%	57,188 46.3%	1,995	123,475	D+5.8
Spokane	55,553 48.2%	59,557 51.6%	259	115,369	R+3.5
Snohomish	38,793 53.0%	33,731 46.1%	639	73,163	D+6.9
Yakima	21,958 40.7%	31,683 58.7%	354	53,995	R+18.0
Clark	20,771 50.8%	20,080 49.1%	17	40,868	D+1.7
Kitsap	19,662 52.7%	17,459 46.8%	181	37,302	D+5.9
Whatcom	14,298 45.4%	16,651 52.8%	577	31,526	R+7.5
Benton	12,518 47.5%	13,797 52.4%	29	26,344	R+4.9
Thurston	11,620 45.4%	13,921 54.4%	65	25,606	R+9.0
Cowlitz	12,054 49.6%	12,103 49.8%	153	24,310	R+0.2
Grays Harbor	13,773 57.4%	10,067 41.9%	166	24,006	D+15.4
Skagit	11,003 47.4%	12,168 52.4%	49	23,220	R+5.0
Lewis	8,411 43.2%	11,012 56.5%	57	19,480	R+13.4
Walla Walla	6,721 36.3%	11,786 63.6%	12	18,519	R+27.4
Chelan	8,177 44.9%	9,854 54.1%	183	18,214	R+9.2
Grant	7,400 49.3%	7,568 50.4%	37	15,005	R+1.1
Whitman	5,458 40.3%	8,069 59.6%	17	13,544	R+19.3
Clallam	6,801 52.0%	6,227 47.6%	52	13,080	D+4.4
Okanogan	5,507 51.5%	5,169 48.3%	22	10,698	D+3.2
Franklin	5,156 54.8%	4,201 44.6%	52	9,409	D+10.1
Kittitas	4,303 48.1%	4,640 51.8%	10	8,953	R+3.8
Stevens	3,861 48.5%	4,076 51.2%	18	7,955	R+2.7
Mason	4,183 52.9%	3,703 46.9%	16	7,902	D+6.1
Pacific	3,837 54.1%	3,224 45.5%	29	7,090	D+8.6
Douglas	3,087 48.6%	3,241 51.1%	18	6,346	R+2.4
Island	2,470 40.5%	3,596 59.0%	28	6,094	R+18.5
Asotin	3,093 53.9%	2,640 46.0%	6	5,739	D+7.9
Klickitat	2,744 49.0%	2,836 50.7%	15	5,595	R+1.6
Lincoln	2,248 41.1%	3,211 58.8%	5	5,464	R+17.6
Jefferson	2,197 51.0%	2,103 48.8%	7	4,307	D+2.2
Adams	1,732 41.1%	2,479 58.8%	5	4,216	R+17.7
Pend Oreille	1,641 55.6%	1,305 44.2%	7	2,953	D+11.4
Skamania	1,269 55.0%	1,032 44.8%	5	2,306	D+10.3
Columbia	793 37.9%	1,301 62.1%		2,094	R+24.3
San Juan	624 35.9%	1,112 63.9%	4	1,740	R+28.0
Wahkiakum	923 53.6%	796 46.2%	3	1,722	D+7.4
Garfield	690 42.9%	914 56.9%	3	1,607	R+13.9
Ferry	921 59.6%	623 40.3%	2	1,546	D+19.3

Counties as they stood in 1960; 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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