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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in Oregon

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat John McCain (Republican) in Oregon in 2008, 56.7% to 40.4%, a margin of 16.3 points and 298,816 votes.

Oregon voted 9.1 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.3.

The Democratic hold continued from 2004, when John Kerry won.

Republicans led in 23 of the 36 counties and Democrats in 13. The largest, Multnomah, cast 364,710 votes and went to the Democrat by 56.1 points. The closest was Jackson, where 47 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
Barack Obama won	Democratic	1,037,291	56.7%
John McCain	Republican	738,475	40.4%
All other candidates		52,098	2.9%
Total		1,827,864

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
Multnomah	279,696 76.7%	75,171 20.6%	9,843	364,710	D+56.1
Washington	141,544 59.8%	89,185 37.7%	5,903	236,632	D+22.1
Clackamas	103,476 53.9%	83,595 43.6%	4,807	191,878	D+10.4
Lane	114,037 62.3%	63,835 34.9%	5,038	182,910	D+27.4
Marion	61,816 49.6%	59,059 47.4%	3,688	124,563	D+2.2
Jackson	49,090 48.6%	49,043 48.5%	2,914	101,047	level
Deschutes	38,819 48.7%	39,064 49.0%	1,899	79,782	R+0.3
Douglas	20,298 38.3%	30,919 58.4%	1,720	52,937	R+20.1
Linn	22,163 42.6%	28,071 54.0%	1,748	51,982	R+11.4
Benton	29,901 64.3%	15,264 32.8%	1,313	46,478	D+31.5
Yamhill	20,797 47.8%	21,390 49.1%	1,339	43,526	R+1.4
Josephine	17,412 41.4%	22,973 54.6%	1,664	42,049	R+13.2
Polk	17,536 48.4%	17,714 48.9%	957	36,207	R+0.5
Coos	14,401 46.5%	15,354 49.6%	1,196	30,951	R+3.1
Klamath	9,370 31.9%	19,113 65.0%	916	29,399	R+33.1
Umatilla	9,484 37.2%	15,254 59.8%	785	25,523	R+22.6
Columbia	13,390 54.1%	10,413 42.0%	965	24,768	D+12.0
Lincoln	14,258 59.7%	8,791 36.8%	840	23,889	D+22.9
Clatsop	10,701 57.7%	7,192 38.8%	655	18,548	D+18.9
Tillamook	7,072 53.2%	5,757 43.3%	468	13,297	D+9.9
Union	4,613 36.6%	7,581 60.2%	400	12,594	R+23.6
Curry	5,230 42.4%	6,646 53.9%	456	12,332	R+11.5
Wasco	5,906 51.9%	5,103 44.8%	371	11,380	D+7.1
Malheur	2,949 28.3%	7,157 68.6%	327	10,433	R+40.3
Crook	3,632 35.1%	6,371 61.5%	349	10,352	R+26.5
Hood River	6,302 64.1%	3,265 33.2%	263	9,830	D+30.9
Baker	2,805 32.0%	5,650 64.4%	322	8,777	R+32.4
Jefferson	3,682 44.3%	4,402 52.9%	234	8,318	R+8.7
Wallowa	1,492 33.4%	2,836 63.5%	137	4,465	R+30.1
Morrow	1,410 34.7%	2,509 61.8%	139	4,058	R+27.1
Grant	1,006 25.7%	2,785 71.2%	118	3,909	R+45.5
Lake	957 25.9%	2,638 71.5%	93	3,688	R+45.6
Harney	950 25.8%	2,595 70.5%	138	3,683	R+44.7
Gilliam	430 38.7%	648 58.4%	32	1,110	R+19.6
Sherman	385 36.8%	634 60.6%	28	1,047	R+23.8
Wheeler	281 34.6%	498 61.3%	33	812	R+26.7

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Oregon in every presidential election we hold

Year	Winner	Margin
2024	Kamala Harris (D)	D+14.3
2020	Joe Biden (D)	D+16.1
2016	Hillary Clinton (D)	D+11.0
2012	Barack Obama (D)	D+12.1
2008	Barack Obama (D)	D+16.3
2004	John Kerry (D)	D+4.2
2000	Al Gore (D)	D+0.4
1996	Bill Clinton (D)	D+8.1
1992	Bill Clinton (D)	D+10.0
1988	Michael Dukakis (D)	D+4.7
1984	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+12.2
1980	Ronald Reagan (R)	R+9.7
1976	Gerald Ford (R)	R+0.2
1972	Richard Nixon (R)	R+10.1
1968	Richard Nixon (R)	R+6.0
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson (D)	D+27.8
1960	Richard Nixon (R)	R+5.2
1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+10.5
1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)	R+21.6
1948	Thomas E. Dewey (R)	R+3.4
1944	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+4.8
1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+8.1
1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+34.8
1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)	D+21.1
1928	Herbert Hoover (R)	R+30.0
1924	Calvin Coolidge (R)	R+26.8
1920	Warren G. Harding (R)	R+26.7
1916	Charles Evans Hughes (R)	R+2.6
1912	Woodrow Wilson (D)	D+9.0
1908	William Howard Taft (R)	R+22.1
1904	Theodore Roosevelt (R)	R+47.6
1900	William McKinley (R)	R+16.1
1896	William McKinley (R)	R+2.1
1892	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+26.4
1888	Benjamin Harrison (R)	R+10.9
1884	James G. Blaine (R)	R+4.3
1880	James A. Garfield (R)	R+1.6
1876	Rutherford B. Hayes (R)	R+3.5
1872	Ulysses S. Grant (R)	R+20.2
1868	Horatio Seymour (D)	D+0.7

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