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Election 1976 Results

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1976 presidential election in Washington

Gerald Ford (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Washington in 1976, 50.0% to 46.1%, a margin of 3.9 points and 60,409 votes.

Washington voted 5.9 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1. Washington's 9 electoral votes were split: 8 Republican and 1 other.

The Republican hold continued from 1972, when Richard Nixon won.

Republicans led in 21 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 18. The largest, King, cast 550,119 votes and went to the Republican by 5.6 points. The closest was Pend Oreille, where 17 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
Gerald Ford won	Republican	777,732	50.0%
Jimmy Carter	Democratic	717,323	46.1%
All other candidates		60,479	3.9%
Total		1,555,534

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	248,743 45.2%	279,382 50.8%	21,994	550,119	R+5.6
Pierce	78,238 49.2%	74,668 46.9%	6,242	159,148	D+2.2
Spokane	55,660 43.5%	68,290 53.4%	4,004	127,954	R+9.9
Snohomish	55,623 48.2%	55,375 47.9%	4,490	115,488	D+0.2
Clark	31,080 50.8%	27,938 45.6%	2,183	61,201	D+5.1
Yakima	24,223 43.7%	29,478 53.1%	1,791	55,492	R+9.5
Kitsap	25,701 50.6%	23,124 45.6%	1,925	50,750	D+5.1
Thurston	21,247 48.2%	21,000 47.7%	1,809	44,056	D+0.6
Whatcom	19,739 47.4%	20,007 48.0%	1,933	41,679	R+0.6
Benton	11,306 32.7%	22,135 64.0%	1,170	34,611	R+31.3
Cowlitz	14,958 52.7%	12,531 44.1%	917	28,406	D+8.5
Skagit	12,718 47.4%	13,060 48.7%	1,059	26,837	R+1.3
Grays Harbor	13,478 56.4%	9,464 39.6%	951	23,893	D+16.8
Lewis	9,026 42.6%	10,933 51.7%	1,208	21,167	R+9.0
Chelan	7,623 40.8%	10,492 56.1%	577	18,692	R+15.3
Walla Walla	7,012 38.1%	10,883 59.1%	505	18,400	R+21.0
Clallam	8,268 45.0%	9,132 49.7%	986	18,386	R+4.7
Grant	7,777 43.9%	9,192 51.9%	752	17,721	R+8.0
Whitman	6,197 41.1%	8,168 54.2%	703	15,068	R+13.1
Island	5,859 41.5%	7,804 55.3%	441	14,104	R+13.8
Okanogan	5,543 47.8%	5,455 47.0%	597	11,595	D+0.8
Mason	6,060 53.7%	4,758 42.1%	473	11,291	D+11.5
Franklin	4,369 42.0%	5,671 54.5%	363	10,403	R+12.5
Kittitas	4,858 48.5%	4,765 47.6%	394	10,017	D+0.9
Stevens	3,824 42.0%	4,719 51.8%	566	9,109	R+9.8
Douglas	3,809 44.5%	4,547 53.1%	208	8,564	R+8.6
Pacific	4,278 58.2%	2,781 37.8%	291	7,350	D+20.4
Jefferson	2,913 47.8%	2,794 45.9%	385	6,092	D+2.0
Asotin	2,898 49.7%	2,752 47.2%	178	5,828	D+2.5
Klickitat	2,890 50.5%	2,573 45.0%	256	5,719	D+5.5
Lincoln	1,978 38.9%	2,925 57.6%	178	5,081	R+18.6
Adams	1,790 37.5%	2,795 58.6%	188	4,773	R+21.1
San Juan	1,467 39.4%	1,998 53.7%	257	3,722	R+14.3
Pend Oreille	1,533 48.4%	1,516 47.8%	121	3,170	D+0.5
Skamania	1,436 54.1%	1,102 41.6%	114	2,652	D+12.6
Columbia	829 40.8%	1,153 56.7%	52	2,034	R+15.9
Wahkiakum	942 55.1%	704 41.2%	64	1,710	D+13.9
Ferry	814 48.1%	776 45.9%	102	1,692	D+2.2
Garfield	616 39.5%	892 57.2%	52	1,560	R+17.7

Counties as they stood in 1976; 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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