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Election 2020 Results

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2020 presidential election in Washington

Joe Biden (Democrat) beat Donald Trump (Republican) in Washington in 2020, 58.0% to 38.8%, a margin of 19.2 points and 784,961 votes.

Washington voted 14.7 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+4.5.

The Democratic hold continued from 2016, when Hillary Clinton won.

Republicans led in 26 of the 39 counties and Democrats in 13. The largest, King, cast 1,210,493 votes and went to the Democrat by 52.7 points. The closest was Pacific, where 160 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
Joe Biden won	Democratic	2,369,612	58.0%
Donald Trump	Republican	1,584,651	38.8%
All other candidates		133,368	3.3%
Total		4,087,631

Every county

County	Democrat	Republican	Others	Total	Margin
King	907,295 75.0%	269,168 22.2%	34,030	1,210,493	D+52.7
Pierce	249,526 53.8%	197,742 42.6%	16,846	464,114	D+11.2
Snohomish	256,735 58.5%	166,432 37.9%	15,641	438,808	D+20.6
Spokane	135,761 46.0%	148,568 50.3%	11,089	295,418	R+4.3
Clark	140,322 51.0%	126,301 45.9%	8,776	275,399	D+5.1
Thurston	96,595 57.5%	65,261 38.8%	6,247	168,103	D+18.6
Kitsap	90,281 56.9%	61,567 38.8%	6,832	158,680	D+18.1
Whatcom	83,659 60.4%	50,489 36.4%	4,472	138,620	D+23.9
Benton	38,711 37.6%	60,372 58.6%	3,962	103,045	R+21.0
Yakima	43,179 44.9%	50,555 52.6%	2,458	96,192	R+7.7
Skagit	38,253 52.1%	32,762 44.6%	2,408	73,423	D+7.5
Cowlitz	23,938 39.7%	34,424 57.1%	1,919	60,281	R+17.4
Island	29,211 54.2%	22,745 42.2%	1,966	53,922	D+12.0
Clallam	24,720 50.2%	23,060 46.8%	1,482	49,262	D+3.4
Lewis	14,518 32.0%	29,386 64.9%	1,398	45,302	R+32.8
Chelan	19,350 44.7%	22,748 52.5%	1,211	43,309	R+7.8
Grays Harbor	17,356 45.1%	19,879 51.7%	1,210	38,445	R+6.6
Grant	11,818 31.4%	24,763 65.7%	1,097	37,678	R+34.4
Mason	17,266 46.3%	18,706 50.2%	1,323	37,295	R+3.9
Franklin	13,336 41.2%	18,033 55.7%	1,024	32,393	R+14.5
Walla Walla	13,690 43.8%	16,400 52.5%	1,171	31,261	R+8.7
Stevens	7,841 27.6%	19,811 69.7%	783	28,435	R+42.1
Kittitas	11,422 43.3%	14,105 53.5%	839	26,366	R+10.2
Jefferson	17,205 69.4%	6,933 28.0%	657	24,795	D+41.4
Douglas	7,818 36.7%	12,958 60.8%	542	21,318	R+24.1
Okanogan	8,892 41.8%	11,836 55.6%	542	21,270	R+13.8
Whitman	11,185 52.9%	9,069 42.9%	875	21,129	D+10.0
Pacific	6,794 48.3%	6,954 49.4%	317	14,065	R+1.1
Klickitat	5,959 43.9%	7,237 53.4%	363	13,559	R+9.4
San Juan	9,725 73.7%	3,057 23.2%	415	13,197	D+50.5
Asotin	4,249 35.6%	7,317 61.2%	382	11,948	R+25.7
Pend Oreille	2,593 30.3%	5,729 67.0%	232	8,554	R+36.7
Skamania	3,194 43.6%	3,890 53.1%	236	7,320	R+9.5
Lincoln	1,713 24.4%	5,149 73.2%	170	7,032	R+48.9
Adams	1,814 30.9%	3,907 66.6%	141	5,862	R+35.7
Ferry	1,488 34.0%	2,775 63.5%	110	4,373	R+29.4
Wahkiakum	1,165 39.1%	1,741 58.4%	75	2,981	R+19.3
Columbia	668 26.8%	1,754 70.3%	73	2,495	R+43.5
Garfield	366 24.6%	1,070 71.8%	54	1,490	R+47.2

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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