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Election 2000 Results

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2000 presidential election in Washington

Al Gore (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Washington in 2000, 50.2% to 44.6%, a margin of 5.6 points and 138,788 votes.

Washington voted 5.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+0.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 1996, when Bill Clinton won.

Republicans led in 28 of the 39 counties and Democrats in 11. The largest, King, cast 794,078 votes and went to the Democrat by 25.6 points. The closest was Wahkiakum, where 230 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
Al Gore won	Democratic	1,247,652	50.2%
George W. Bush	Republican	1,108,864	44.6%
All other candidates		130,917	5.3%
Total		2,487,433

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	476,700 60.0%	273,171 34.4%	44,207	794,078	D+25.6
Pierce	138,249 51.4%	118,431 44.0%	12,214	268,894	D+7.4
Snohomish	129,612 51.6%	109,615 43.6%	12,078	251,305	D+8.0
Spokane	74,604 43.4%	89,299 51.9%	8,186	172,089	R+8.5
Clark	61,767 45.6%	67,219 49.6%	6,544	135,530	R+4.0
Kitsap	50,302 48.9%	46,427 45.1%	6,128	102,857	D+3.8
Thurston	50,467 51.8%	39,924 41.0%	7,016	97,407	D+10.8
Whatcom	34,033 46.1%	34,287 46.5%	5,432	73,752	R+0.3
Yakima	25,546 37.9%	39,494 58.6%	2,335	67,375	R+20.7
Benton	19,512 32.6%	38,367 64.2%	1,896	59,775	R+31.5
Skagit	20,432 45.2%	22,163 49.0%	2,625	45,220	R+3.8
Cowlitz	18,233 49.3%	16,873 45.7%	1,851	36,957	D+3.7
Island	14,778 44.8%	16,408 49.7%	1,817	33,003	R+4.9
Clallam	13,779 42.8%	16,251 50.4%	2,200	32,230	R+7.7
Lewis	9,891 33.0%	18,565 61.9%	1,527	29,983	R+28.9
Chelan	8,412 31.7%	16,980 63.9%	1,177	26,569	R+32.2
Grays Harbor	13,304 51.2%	11,225 43.2%	1,441	25,970	D+8.0
Grant	7,073 29.7%	15,830 66.5%	892	23,795	R+36.8
Mason	10,876 48.4%	10,257 45.6%	1,346	22,479	D+2.8
Walla Walla	7,188 33.6%	13,304 62.3%	870	21,362	R+28.6
Stevens	5,560 30.9%	11,299 62.8%	1,136	17,995	R+31.9
Whitman	6,509 40.1%	9,003 55.5%	722	16,234	R+15.4
Jefferson	8,281 52.3%	6,095 38.5%	1,456	15,832	D+13.8
Okanogan	4,335 29.3%	9,384 63.4%	1,077	14,796	R+34.1
Kittitas	5,516 39.2%	7,727 54.9%	843	14,086	R+15.7
Franklin	4,653 34.2%	8,594 63.1%	365	13,612	R+29.0
Douglas	3,822 29.7%	8,512 66.2%	517	12,851	R+36.5
Pacific	4,895 51.4%	4,042 42.5%	581	9,518	D+9.0
San Juan	4,426 52.5%	3,005 35.7%	993	8,424	D+16.9
Klickitat	3,062 37.4%	4,557 55.7%	561	8,180	R+18.3
Asotin	2,736 34.3%	4,909 61.5%	340	7,985	R+27.2
Pend Oreille	1,973 36.3%	3,076 56.6%	388	5,437	R+20.3
Lincoln	1,417 27.3%	3,546 68.2%	233	5,196	R+41.0
Adams	1,406 28.3%	3,440 69.2%	128	4,974	R+40.9
Skamania	1,753 41.3%	2,151 50.6%	344	4,248	R+9.4
Ferry	932 30.7%	1,896 62.4%	209	3,037	R+31.7
Columbia	515 24.5%	1,523 72.3%	68	2,106	R+47.9
Wahkiakum	803 40.7%	1,033 52.4%	135	1,971	R+11.7
Garfield	300 22.6%	982 73.9%	47	1,329	R+51.3

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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