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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in Washington

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat John McCain (Republican) in Washington in 2008, 57.7% to 40.5%, a margin of 17.2 points and 521,632 votes.

Washington voted 9.9 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.

Democrats led in 20 of the 39 counties and Republicans in 19. The largest, King, cast 922,032 votes and went to the Democrat by 42.1 points. The closest was Wahkiakum, where 16 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	1,750,848	57.7%
John McCain	Republican	1,229,216	40.5%
All other candidates		56,814	1.9%
Total		3,036,878

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	648,230 70.3%	259,716 28.2%	14,086	922,032	D+42.1
Pierce	181,824 55.2%	141,673 43.0%	6,023	329,520	D+12.2
Snohomish	187,294 58.5%	126,722 39.6%	6,317	320,333	D+18.9
Spokane	105,786 48.2%	108,314 49.3%	5,411	219,511	R+1.2
Clark	95,356 52.2%	84,212 46.1%	3,196	182,764	D+6.1
Thurston	75,882 59.9%	48,366 38.2%	2,461	126,709	D+21.7
Kitsap	68,624 55.2%	53,297 42.9%	2,416	124,337	D+12.3
Whatcom	58,236 58.0%	40,205 40.1%	1,898	100,339	D+18.0
Yakima	33,792 43.9%	41,946 54.4%	1,324	77,062	R+10.6
Benton	26,288 36.1%	45,345 62.2%	1,278	72,911	R+26.1
Skagit	30,053 53.8%	24,687 44.2%	1,146	55,886	D+9.6
Cowlitz	24,597 54.4%	19,554 43.2%	1,078	45,229	D+11.1
Island	22,058 52.3%	19,426 46.1%	675	42,159	D+6.2
Clallam	19,470 50.5%	18,199 47.2%	850	38,519	D+3.3
Lewis	13,624 39.3%	20,278 58.4%	803	34,705	R+19.2
Chelan	13,781 43.1%	17,605 55.1%	572	31,958	R+12.0
Grays Harbor	16,354 56.0%	12,104 41.5%	726	29,184	D+14.6
Mason	15,050 53.2%	12,600 44.5%	656	28,306	D+8.7
Grant	9,601 35.0%	17,153 62.5%	684	27,438	R+27.5
Walla Walla	10,081 40.8%	14,182 57.4%	464	24,727	R+16.6
Stevens	8,499 38.0%	13,132 58.8%	710	22,341	R+20.7
Jefferson	13,252 66.3%	6,330 31.7%	409	19,991	D+34.6
Franklin	7,361 37.4%	12,037 61.1%	298	19,696	R+23.7
Kittitas	8,030 44.9%	9,471 53.0%	367	17,868	R+8.1
Whitman	9,070 51.6%	8,104 46.1%	415	17,589	D+5.5
Okanogan	7,613 45.1%	8,798 52.2%	459	16,870	R+7.0
Douglas	5,848 38.5%	9,098 59.8%	263	15,209	R+21.4
Pacific	6,094 55.7%	4,555 41.6%	288	10,937	D+14.1
San Juan	7,374 70.0%	2,958 28.1%	199	10,531	D+41.9
Klickitat	4,965 48.8%	4,944 48.6%	255	10,164	D+0.2
Asotin	4,139 42.3%	5,451 55.7%	190	9,780	R+13.4
Pend Oreille	2,562 39.1%	3,717 56.7%	273	6,552	R+17.6
Lincoln	2,032 34.0%	3,803 63.6%	142	5,977	R+29.6
Skamania	2,817 51.3%	2,524 46.0%	149	5,490	D+5.3
Adams	1,552 31.9%	3,222 66.3%	84	4,858	R+34.4
Ferry	1,467 41.9%	1,916 54.7%	118	3,501	R+12.8
Wahkiakum	1,121 48.9%	1,105 48.2%	68	2,294	D+0.7
Columbia	686 30.8%	1,499 67.3%	43	2,228	R+36.5
Garfield	385 28.0%	968 70.5%	20	1,373	R+42.5

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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