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The 2024 Washington Democratic presidential primary was held on March 12, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 111 delegates to the Democratic National Convention were allocated to presidential candidates. [2]
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.
In 2020, Biden edged out U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in Washington’s presidential primary, which featured 13 Democratic candidates. Trump, the incumbent president, faced no intraparty challenge .
The 2024 Washington Republican presidential primary were held on March 12, 2024, as part of the Republican Party primaries for the 2024 presidential election. 43 delegates to the 2024 Republican National Convention were allocated on a proportional basis. [1] The contest was held alongside primaries in Georgia, Hawaii, and Mississippi.
Washington state elections in 2024 were held on November 5, 2024.Primary elections were held on August 6, 2024. [1]This was the first time since 1965 that Republicans have not held at least one executive office going into the election.
[4] [5] Washington has conducted its presidential elections through mail-in voting since 2012 for general elections and 2016 for party primaries. [6] In the 1892 presidential election, the first since Washington became a state, President Benjamin Harrison received 41.45% of the popular vote and obtained Washington's four electoral votes in his ...
Biden won Washington’s presidential preference primaries in the spring, with 83.5% of the Democratic vote. So the majority of the states’ delegations would be expected to back him.
Washington has 12 electoral votes in the Electoral College. [3] Prior to the election, most news organizations forecasted Washington as a state that Biden would win, or a safe blue state. Biden won the state by 19.2%, the largest margin for a presidential candidate of any party since 1964. He also flipped the swing county of Clallam.