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Election 1984 Results

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1984 presidential election in Washington

Ronald Reagan (Republican) beat Walter Mondale (Democrat) in Washington in 1984, 56.1% to 42.6%, a margin of 13.5 points and 253,318 votes.

Washington voted 4.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+18.2.

The Republican hold continued from 1980, when Ronald Reagan also won.

Republicans led in 34 of the 39 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 5. The largest, King, cast 639,261 votes and went to the Republican by 5.4 points. The closest was Jefferson, where 59 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
Ronald Reagan won	Republican	1,051,670	56.1%
Walter Mondale	Democratic	798,352	42.6%
All other candidates		24,888	1.3%
Total		1,874,910

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	298,620 46.7%	332,987 52.1%	7,654	639,261	R+5.4
Pierce	79,498 40.7%	112,877 57.9%	2,733	195,108	R+17.1
Snohomish	66,728 42.0%	90,362 56.8%	1,905	158,995	R+14.9
Spokane	59,620 39.9%	88,043 59.0%	1,673	149,336	R+19.0
Clark	35,248 45.8%	40,681 52.9%	1,028	76,957	R+7.1
Kitsap	29,681 44.5%	36,101 54.1%	931	66,713	R+9.6
Yakima	24,724 37.4%	40,678 61.5%	780	66,182	R+24.1
Thurston	26,840 43.3%	34,442 55.5%	763	62,045	R+12.3
Whatcom	22,670 44.7%	27,228 53.7%	788	50,686	R+9.0
Benton	13,784 29.6%	32,307 69.3%	540	46,631	R+39.7
Skagit	13,947 41.9%	18,840 56.5%	539	33,326	R+14.7
Cowlitz	15,361 49.6%	14,858 48.0%	749	30,968	D+1.6
Grays Harbor	14,050 54.7%	11,286 44.0%	335	25,671	D+10.8
Lewis	7,634 31.9%	15,846 66.2%	451	23,931	R+34.3
Clallam	9,701 40.9%	13,605 57.3%	429	23,735	R+16.4
Chelan	6,978 33.2%	13,667 65.1%	349	20,994	R+31.9
Island	6,850 33.2%	13,548 65.7%	218	20,616	R+32.5
Grant	6,298 32.2%	12,888 65.8%	398	19,584	R+33.6
Walla Walla	6,804 35.1%	12,361 63.7%	233	19,398	R+28.6
Whitman	6,621 39.3%	10,021 59.5%	207	16,849	R+20.2
Mason	7,007 44.8%	8,410 53.7%	233	15,650	R+9.0
Okanogan	5,330 40.8%	7,476 57.2%	253	13,059	R+16.4
Stevens	4,304 33.7%	8,211 64.3%	256	12,771	R+30.6
Franklin	4,328 35.3%	7,724 63.0%	216	12,268	R+27.7
Kittitas	4,830 41.9%	6,580 57.1%	121	11,531	R+15.2
Douglas	3,127 32.2%	6,443 66.4%	128	9,698	R+34.2
Jefferson	4,602 49.3%	4,543 48.7%	189	9,334	D+0.6
Pacific	4,679 55.6%	3,613 42.9%	129	8,421	D+12.7
Asotin	3,042 43.3%	3,876 55.2%	103	7,021	R+11.9
Klickitat	2,712 40.1%	3,910 57.9%	135	6,757	R+17.7
San Juan	2,514 45.5%	2,900 52.5%	112	5,526	R+7.0
Lincoln	1,671 32.2%	3,474 66.9%	48	5,193	R+34.7
Adams	1,311 27.3%	3,449 71.7%	49	4,809	R+44.5
Pend Oreille	1,655 40.6%	2,374 58.3%	46	4,075	R+17.6
Skamania	1,552 46.5%	1,736 52.0%	51	3,339	R+5.5
Ferry	935 42.3%	1,232 55.7%	43	2,210	R+13.4
Columbia	673 32.1%	1,404 67.0%	18	2,095	R+34.9
Wahkiakum	930 53.5%	776 44.6%	33	1,739	D+8.9
Garfield	493 34.5%	913 63.9%	22	1,428	R+29.4

Counties as they stood in 1984; 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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