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Election 2004 Results

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2004 presidential election in Washington

John Kerry (Democrat) beat George W. Bush (Republican) in Washington in 2004, 52.8% to 45.6%, a margin of 7.2 points and 205,307 votes.

Washington voted 9.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was R+2.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2000, when Al Gore won.

Republicans led in 27 of the 39 counties and Democrats in 12. The largest, King, cast 893,534 votes and went to the Democrat by 31.3 points. The closest was Wahkiakum, where 150 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
John Kerry won	Democratic	1,510,201	52.8%
George W. Bush	Republican	1,304,894	45.6%
All other candidates		43,989	1.5%
Total		2,859,084

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	580,378 65.0%	301,043 33.7%	12,113	893,534	D+31.3
Pierce	158,231 50.5%	150,783 48.1%	4,317	313,331	D+2.4
Snohomish	156,468 53.0%	134,317 45.5%	4,212	294,997	D+7.5
Spokane	87,490 43.2%	111,606 55.1%	3,491	202,587	R+11.9
Clark	79,538 46.7%	88,646 52.0%	2,255	170,439	R+5.3
Kitsap	60,796 51.3%	55,608 46.9%	2,049	118,453	D+4.4
Thurston	62,650 55.5%	47,992 42.6%	2,147	112,789	D+13.0
Whatcom	48,268 53.4%	40,296 44.6%	1,830	90,394	D+8.8
Yakima	28,474 39.1%	43,352 59.6%	964	72,790	R+20.4
Benton	21,549 32.2%	44,350 66.3%	987	66,886	R+34.1
Skagit	25,131 48.1%	26,139 50.0%	960	52,230	R+1.9
Cowlitz	21,589 50.8%	20,217 47.6%	667	42,473	D+3.2
Island	18,216 47.2%	19,754 51.2%	589	38,559	R+4.0
Clallam	17,049 46.4%	18,871 51.3%	846	36,766	R+5.0
Lewis	10,726 33.1%	21,042 64.9%	660	32,428	R+31.8
Chelan	10,471 35.6%	18,482 62.9%	443	29,396	R+27.3
Grays Harbor	14,583 52.2%	12,871 46.0%	499	27,953	D+6.1
Grant	7,779 29.9%	17,799 68.5%	417	25,995	R+38.5
Mason	12,894 50.8%	11,987 47.2%	513	25,394	D+3.6
Walla Walla	8,257 36.0%	14,323 62.5%	345	22,925	R+26.5
Stevens	6,822 33.5%	13,015 64.0%	503	20,340	R+30.4
Jefferson	11,610 62.4%	6,650 35.7%	356	18,616	D+26.6
Whitman	8,287 46.0%	9,397 52.2%	328	18,012	R+6.2
Okanogan	6,309 38.6%	9,636 59.0%	397	16,342	R+20.4
Franklin	5,188 32.1%	10,757 66.6%	214	16,159	R+34.5
Kittitas	6,731 41.8%	9,052 56.3%	301	16,084	R+14.4
Douglas	4,306 32.2%	8,900 66.6%	166	13,372	R+34.4
Pacific	5,570 53.4%	4,634 44.4%	227	10,431	D+9.0
San Juan	6,589 65.3%	3,290 32.6%	209	10,088	D+32.7
Klickitat	4,036 43.7%	5,016 54.3%	185	9,237	R+10.6
Asotin	3,319 37.8%	5,320 60.6%	147	8,786	R+22.8
Pend Oreille	2,310 37.3%	3,693 59.6%	195	6,198	R+22.3
Lincoln	1,706 29.4%	4,015 69.1%	90	5,811	R+39.7
Skamania	2,374 46.0%	2,695 52.2%	90	5,159	R+6.2
Adams	1,315 25.6%	3,751 73.2%	61	5,127	R+47.5
Ferry	1,201 35.9%	2,019 60.4%	121	3,341	R+24.5
Wahkiakum	1,021 45.7%	1,171 52.4%	43	2,235	R+6.7
Columbia	605 28.7%	1,470 69.8%	32	2,107	R+41.1
Garfield	365 27.7%	935 70.8%	20	1,320	R+43.2

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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