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The 2024 United States presidential election in Washington took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Washington voters will choose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Washington has 12 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.[1]
Although Washington was a Republican-leaning swing state until the 1980s, Democrats have won Washington in every presidential election starting in 1988 and have consistently done so by double digits since 2008. Washington is part of the Democratic-leaning West Coast, and was predicted to go comfortably to the Democratic party in 2024.
While Trump improved his margin in all fifty states, Washington had the smallest swing to the right, with Trump improving his margin by only 0.9%, compared to the national swing of about 6.1%. Washington was the sixth-most Democratic state in the election behind Vermont, Massachusetts, Maryland, Hawaii, and California; the latter five states voted for Harris by more than 20%. This was the first election since 1956 in which Washington voted to the left of New York (which had the largest swing to the right in this election) and Rhode Island.
With this election, Clallam County ended its 40-year bellwether streak, voting for the losing presidential candidate for the first time since 1976; Trump thus became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying this county since Richard Nixon in 1968. It had previously been the only county in the nation to vote for every presidential election winner since 1980.[2]
- ^ Wang, Hansi; Jin, Connie; Levitt, Zach (April 26, 2021). "Here's How The 1st 2020 Census Results Changed Electoral College, House Seats". NPR. Archived from the original on August 19, 2021. Retrieved August 20, 2021.
- ^ Smith, Helen (November 6, 2024). "Clallam County voted for losing presidential candidate for first time in 40 years". KING-TV.