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Election 2012 Results

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2012 presidential election in Washington

Barack Obama (Democrat) beat Mitt Romney (Republican) in Washington in 2012, 56.2% to 41.3%, a margin of 14.9 points and 464,726 votes.

Washington voted 11.0 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+3.9.

The Democratic hold continued from 2008, when Barack Obama also won.

Republicans led in 23 of the 39 counties and Democrats in 16. The largest, King, cast 967,154 votes and went to the Democrat by 40.6 points. The closest was Wahkiakum, where 25 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	1,755,396	56.2%
Mitt Romney	Republican	1,290,670	41.3%
All other candidates		79,450	2.5%
Total		3,125,516

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	668,004 69.1%	275,700 28.5%	23,450	967,154	D+40.6
Pierce	186,430 54.4%	148,467 43.3%	8,013	342,910	D+11.1
Snohomish	188,516 57.2%	133,016 40.3%	8,285	329,817	D+16.8
Spokane	102,295 45.7%	115,285 51.5%	6,250	223,830	R+5.8
Clark	93,382 48.9%	92,951 48.7%	4,472	190,805	D+0.2
Thurston	74,037 58.3%	49,287 38.8%	3,739	127,063	D+19.5
Kitsap	67,277 54.5%	52,846 42.8%	3,244	123,367	D+11.7
Whatcom	57,089 55.4%	42,703 41.4%	3,237	103,029	D+14.0
Benton	28,145 35.4%	49,461 62.2%	1,953	79,559	R+26.8
Yakima	33,217 43.2%	42,239 54.9%	1,517	76,973	R+11.7
Skagit	28,688 51.9%	25,071 45.4%	1,510	55,269	D+6.5
Cowlitz	22,726 50.9%	20,746 46.5%	1,148	44,620	D+4.4
Island	21,478 51.0%	19,605 46.6%	1,016	42,099	D+4.4
Clallam	18,580 48.8%	18,437 48.4%	1,049	38,066	D+0.4
Lewis	12,664 37.2%	20,452 60.1%	928	34,044	R+22.9
Chelan	13,112 40.7%	18,402 57.1%	736	32,250	R+16.4
Grays Harbor	15,960 55.6%	11,914 41.5%	810	28,684	D+14.1
Mason	14,764 52.3%	12,761 45.2%	710	28,235	D+7.1
Grant	8,950 32.5%	17,852 64.8%	756	27,558	R+32.3
Walla Walla	9,768 38.9%	14,648 58.3%	692	25,108	R+19.4
Franklin	8,398 37.1%	13,748 60.7%	497	22,643	R+23.6
Stevens	7,762 35.0%	13,691 61.8%	708	22,161	R+26.8
Jefferson	12,739 64.2%	6,405 32.3%	685	19,829	D+31.9
Kittitas	7,949 43.7%	9,782 53.8%	440	18,171	R+10.1
Whitman	8,037 46.9%	8,507 49.7%	577	17,121	R+2.7
Okanogan	7,108 42.2%	9,221 54.7%	517	16,846	R+12.5
Douglas	5,166 34.6%	9,425 63.1%	351	14,942	R+28.5
San Juan	7,125 67.3%	3,111 29.4%	358	10,594	D+37.9
Pacific	5,711 54.3%	4,499 42.7%	314	10,524	D+11.5
Klickitat	4,598 44.8%	5,316 51.7%	360	10,274	R+7.0
Asotin	4,003 40.4%	5,654 57.1%	244	9,901	R+16.7
Pend Oreille	2,508 37.6%	3,952 59.3%	208	6,668	R+21.7
Lincoln	1,673 28.5%	4,063 69.2%	136	5,872	R+40.7
Skamania	2,628 48.1%	2,687 49.2%	151	5,466	R+1.1
Adams	1,540 32.1%	3,171 66.2%	82	4,793	R+34.0
Ferry	1,294 37.6%	1,995 58.0%	151	3,440	R+20.4
Wahkiakum	1,094 47.7%	1,119 48.8%	81	2,294	R+1.1
Columbia	645 28.6%	1,568 69.4%	46	2,259	R+40.9
Garfield	336 26.3%	913 71.4%	29	1,278	R+45.1

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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