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Election 2016 Results

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2016 presidential election in Washington

Hillary Clinton (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Washington in 2016, 52.5% to 36.8%, a margin of 15.7 points and 520,971 votes.

Washington voted 13.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1. Washington's 12 electoral votes were split: 8 Democratic and 4 other.

The Democratic hold continued from 2012, when Barack Obama won.

Republicans led in 27 of the 39 counties and Democrats in 12. The largest, King, cast 998,499 votes and went to the Democrat by 50.3 points. The closest was Clark, where 316 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
Hillary Clinton won	Democratic	1,742,718	52.5%
Donald Trump	Republican	1,221,747	36.8%
All other candidates		352,554	10.6%
Total		3,317,019

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	718,322 71.9%	216,339 21.7%	63,838	998,499	D+50.3
Pierce	172,538 49.5%	146,824 42.1%	29,123	348,485	D+7.4
Snohomish	185,227 54.1%	128,255 37.5%	28,691	342,173	D+16.7
Spokane	93,767 41.3%	113,435 49.9%	20,044	227,246	R+8.7
Clark	92,757 46.3%	92,441 46.2%	14,962	200,160	D+0.2
Thurston	68,798 53.2%	48,624 37.6%	11,988	129,410	D+15.6
Kitsap	63,156 50.8%	49,018 39.4%	12,143	124,317	D+11.4
Whatcom	60,340 55.0%	40,599 37.0%	8,734	109,673	D+18.0
Benton	26,360 32.9%	47,194 59.0%	6,473	80,027	R+26.0
Yakima	31,291 40.2%	41,735 53.7%	4,724	77,750	R+13.4
Skagit	26,690 47.7%	24,736 44.2%	4,542	55,968	D+3.5
Cowlitz	17,908 39.2%	24,185 52.9%	3,599	45,692	R+13.7
Island	20,960 48.9%	18,465 43.1%	3,451	42,876	D+5.8
Clallam	17,677 44.8%	18,794 47.6%	2,986	39,457	R+2.8
Lewis	9,654 28.3%	21,992 64.4%	2,503	34,149	R+36.1
Chelan	13,032 39.0%	18,114 54.3%	2,234	33,380	R+15.2
Grays Harbor	12,020 42.4%	14,067 49.6%	2,280	28,367	R+7.2
Grant	7,810 27.6%	18,518 65.3%	2,018	28,346	R+37.8
Mason	11,993 42.7%	13,677 48.7%	2,403	28,073	R+6.0
Walla Walla	9,694 38.1%	13,651 53.7%	2,074	25,419	R+15.6
Franklin	8,886 37.5%	13,206 55.7%	1,628	23,720	R+18.2
Stevens	5,767 25.4%	15,161 66.9%	1,749	22,677	R+41.4
Jefferson	12,656 62.4%	6,037 29.8%	1,583	20,276	D+32.6
Kittitas	7,489 39.5%	10,100 53.3%	1,366	18,955	R+13.8
Whitman	8,146 47.1%	7,403 42.8%	1,756	17,305	D+4.3
Okanogan	6,298 36.8%	9,610 56.2%	1,183	17,091	R+19.4
Douglas	4,918 31.6%	9,603 61.8%	1,022	15,543	R+30.1
San Juan	7,172 66.6%	2,688 24.9%	914	10,774	D+41.6
Klickitat	4,194 38.9%	5,789 53.8%	786	10,769	R+14.8
Pacific	4,620 43.1%	5,360 50.0%	736	10,716	R+6.9
Asotin	3,134 32.2%	5,741 59.0%	861	9,736	R+26.8
Pend Oreille	1,934 28.4%	4,373 64.3%	495	6,802	R+35.9
Lincoln	1,244 21.8%	4,108 71.9%	361	5,713	R+50.1
Skamania	2,232 39.6%	2,928 51.9%	479	5,639	R+12.3
Adams	1,299 28.0%	3,083 66.4%	262	4,644	R+38.4
Ferry	1,098 30.5%	2,202 61.1%	301	3,601	R+30.7
Wahkiakum	832 35.3%	1,344 57.0%	182	2,358	R+21.7
Columbia	526 24.1%	1,497 68.6%	159	2,182	R+44.5
Garfield	279 22.4%	851 68.3%	116	1,246	R+45.9

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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