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Election 1996 Results

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1996 presidential election in Washington

Bill Clinton (Democrat) beat Bob Dole (Republican) in Washington in 1996, 49.8% to 37.3%, a margin of 12.5 points and 282,611 votes.

Washington voted 4.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+8.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1992, when Bill Clinton also won.

Democrats led in 24 of the 39 counties and Republicans in 15. The largest, King, cast 741,104 votes and went to the Democrat by 25.0 points. The closest was Ferry, where 106 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
Bill Clinton won	Democratic	1,123,323	49.8%
Bob Dole	Republican	840,712	37.3%
Ross Perot	Reform	201,003	8.9%
All other candidates		88,799	3.9%
Total		2,253,837

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	417,846 56.4%	232,811 31.4%	90,447	741,104	D+25.0
Pierce	120,893 50.6%	89,295 37.4%	28,885	239,073	D+13.2
Snohomish	109,624 49.5%	81,885 36.9%	30,161	221,670	D+12.5
Spokane	71,727 45.0%	66,628 41.8%	20,877	159,232	D+3.2
Clark	52,254 46.4%	46,794 41.5%	13,682	112,730	D+4.8
Kitsap	44,167 48.3%	35,304 38.6%	12,016	91,487	D+9.7
Thurston	45,522 52.2%	29,835 34.2%	11,923	87,280	D+18.0
Whatcom	29,074 45.1%	27,153 42.1%	8,283	64,510	D+3.0
Yakima	25,676 43.3%	27,668 46.6%	6,016	59,360	R+3.4
Benton	20,783 38.6%	26,664 49.6%	6,356	53,803	R+10.9
Skagit	18,295 44.5%	16,397 39.9%	6,426	41,118	D+4.6
Cowlitz	18,054 53.9%	11,221 33.5%	4,240	33,515	D+20.4
Clallam	12,585 42.6%	12,432 42.1%	4,499	29,516	D+0.5
Island	12,157 42.7%	12,387 43.5%	3,920	28,464	R+0.8
Lewis	10,331 37.4%	13,238 47.9%	4,075	27,644	R+10.5
Grays Harbor	14,082 53.6%	7,635 29.1%	4,533	26,250	D+24.6
Chelan	8,595 36.0%	12,363 51.8%	2,912	23,870	R+15.8
Grant	8,065 36.9%	10,895 49.8%	2,906	21,866	R+12.9
Mason	10,088 48.6%	7,149 34.5%	3,513	20,750	D+14.2
Walla Walla	8,038 41.3%	9,085 46.6%	2,363	19,486	R+5.4
Stevens	5,591 34.9%	7,524 47.0%	2,907	16,022	R+12.1
Whitman	7,262 45.7%	6,734 42.4%	1,899	15,895	D+3.3
Jefferson	7,145 50.6%	4,607 32.6%	2,367	14,119	D+18.0
Okanogan	4,810 36.8%	5,890 45.0%	2,375	13,075	R+8.3
Kittitas	5,707 45.4%	5,224 41.6%	1,633	12,564	D+3.8
Franklin	4,961 41.0%	5,946 49.2%	1,189	12,096	R+8.1
Douglas	3,913 35.8%	5,682 52.0%	1,330	10,925	R+16.2
Pacific	5,095 55.9%	2,598 28.5%	1,418	9,111	D+27.4
San Juan	3,663 49.8%	2,523 34.3%	1,168	7,354	D+15.5
Asotin	3,349 45.8%	2,860 39.1%	1,102	7,311	D+6.7
Klickitat	3,214 45.5%	2,662 37.7%	1,189	7,065	D+7.8
Lincoln	1,806 35.9%	2,587 51.4%	640	5,033	R+15.5
Pend Oreille	2,126 42.6%	2,012 40.3%	858	4,996	D+2.3
Adams	1,740 37.7%	2,356 51.1%	518	4,614	R+13.4
Skamania	1,724 45.5%	1,387 36.6%	678	3,789	D+8.9
Ferry	1,197 42.5%	1,091 38.7%	529	2,817	D+3.8
Columbia	743 38.0%	948 48.5%	264	1,955	R+10.5
Wahkiakum	924 50.3%	619 33.7%	293	1,836	D+16.6
Garfield	497 39.6%	623 49.6%	135	1,255	R+10.0

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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