Political party strength in Washington (state) facts for kids
- For Washington, D.C., see Political party strength in Washington, D.C.
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Washington:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- State Auditor
- Comptroller General
- Commissioner of Public Lands
- Commissioner of Insurance
- Superintendent of Public Instruction
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Nonpartisan (NP), Populist (P), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||||
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| Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Comp. | Comm. of Ins. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
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| 1853 | Isaac Stevens (D) | no such offices | no such office | no such offices | |||||||||||
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| 1857 | LaFayette McMullen (D) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1859 | Richard D. Gholson (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1860 | |||||||||||||||
| 1861 | William H. Wallace (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1862 | William Pickering (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1866 | George E. Cole (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1867 | Marshall F. Moore (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1869 | Alvan Flanders (R) | ||||||||||||||
| 1870 | Edward S. Salomon (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1872 | Elisha Peyre Ferry (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1880 | William Augustus Newell (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1884 | Watson C. Squire (R) | ||||||||||||||
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| 1887 | Eugene Semple (D) | James B. Metcalf | |||||||||||||
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| 1889 | Miles Conway Moore (R) | ||||||||||||||
| Elisha Peyre Ferry (R) | Charles E. Laughton (R) | Allan Weir (R) | William Carey Jones (R) | 34R, 1D | 61R, 8D, 1I | John B. Allen (R) | Watson C. Squire (R) | 1R | |||||||
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| 1891 | 30R, 4D | 60R, 17D, 1P | |||||||||||||
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison and Whitelaw Reid (R)  |
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| 1893 | John McGraw (R) | F.H. Luce (R) | James Price (R) | 25R, 9D | 50R, 20D, 8P | vacant | 2R | ||||||||
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| 1895 | 26R, 5D, 3P | 54R, 20P, 4D | John L. Wilson (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1896 | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall/Thomas E. Watson (D/P) |
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| 1897 | John Rankin Rogers (D) | Thurston Daniels (P) | Will Jenkins (P) | Patrick Henry Winston (P) | 15P, 13R, 4D, 2SR | 45P, 12R, 11SR, 10D | George Turner (D) | 1D, 1SR | |||||||
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| 1899 | 15R, 12P, 7D | 68R, 9P, 1 Cit. | Addison G. Foster (R) | 2R | |||||||||||
| 1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R)  |
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| 1901 | John Rankin Rogers (P) | Henry McBride (R) | Samuel Nichols (R) | Wickliffe Stratton (R) | 26R, 8D | 59R, 21D | |||||||||
| Henry McBride (R) | vacant | ||||||||||||||
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| 1903 | 33R, 9D | 80R, 14D | Levi Ankeny (R) | 3R | |||||||||||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) |
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| 1905 | Albert E. Mead (R) | Charles E. Coon (R) | John Atkinson (R) | 38R, 4D | 90R, 4D | Samuel H. Piles (R) | |||||||||
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| 1907 | 85R, 9D | ||||||||||||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) |
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| 1909 | Samuel G. Cosgrove (R) | Marion E. Hay (R) | Walter Bell (R) | 39R, 3D | 88R, 6D | Wesley Livsey Jones (R) | |||||||||
| Marion E. Hay (R) | vacant | Ithamar Howell (R) | |||||||||||||
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| 1911 | William V. Tanner (R) | 38R, 4D | 84R, 13D | Miles Poindexter (R) | |||||||||||
| 1912 | Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram Johnson (Prog) |
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| 1913 | Ernest Lister (D) | Louis Folwell Hart (R) | 27R, 9D, 6 Prog. | 49R, 29 Prog., 19D | 3R, 2 Prog. | ||||||||||
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| 1915 | 29R, 7 Prog., 6D | 79R, 13D, 5 Prog. | 4R, 1D | ||||||||||||
| 1916 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) |
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| 1917 | W. W. Sherman (R) | C. W. Clausen (R) | Clark V. Savidge (R) | H. O. Fishback (R) | 37R, 5D | 83R, 14D | |||||||||
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| 1919 | Louis Folwell Hart (R) | vacant | L. L. Thompson (R) | 39R, 3D | 87R, 10D | 5R | |||||||||
| 1920 | Jay Hinkle (R) | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) |
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| 1921 | William J. Coyle (R) | Clifford L. Babcock (R) | 40R, 1D, 1FL | 94R, 2FL, 1D | |||||||||||
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| 1923 | John H. Dunbar (R) | 39R, 2FL, 1D | 84R, 9D, 4FL | Clarence C. Dill (D) | |||||||||||
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| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) |
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| 1925 | Roland H. Hartley (R) | W. Lon Johnson (R) | 40R, 2D | 92R, 5D | |||||||||||
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| 1927 | 89R, 8D | ||||||||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) |
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| 1929 | John Arthur Gellatly (R) | Charles W. Hinton (R) | 41R, 1D | 91R, 6D | |||||||||||
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| 1931 | 90R, 7D | ||||||||||||||
| 1932 | Elijah S. Grammer (R) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) |
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| 1933 | Clarence D. Martin (D) | Victor Aloysius Meyers (D) | Ernest Hutchinson (D) | Garrison Hamilton (D) | 25D, 21R | 70D, 29R | Homer Bone (D) | 6D | |||||||
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| 1935 | 41D, 5R | 93D, 6R | Lewis B. Schwellenbach (D) | ||||||||||||
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| 1937 | 37D, 9R | 91D, 8R | |||||||||||||
| 1938 | Belle Reeves (D) | ||||||||||||||
| 1939 | 40D, 6R | 73D, 26R | |||||||||||||
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) |
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| 1941 | Arthur B. Langlie (R) | Smith Troy (D) | 37D, 9R | 68D, 31R | Monrad Wallgren (D) | ||||||||||
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| 1943 | 27D, 19R | 59D, 40R | 3D, 3R | ||||||||||||
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D) |
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| 1945 | Monrad Wallgren (D) | Russell H. Fluent (D) | Cliff Yelle (D) | Otto A. Case (D) | William A. Sullivan (D) | 32D, 14R | 63D, 36R | Hugh Mitchell (D) | Warren Magnuson (D) | 4D, 2R | |||||
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| 1947 | 23R, 23D | 72R, 27D | Harry P. Cain (R) | 5R, 1D | |||||||||||
| 1948 | Earl Coe (D) | Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley (D) |
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| 1949 | Arthur B. Langlie (R) | 27R, 19D | 67D, 32R | 4R, 2D | |||||||||||
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| 1951 | 25D, 21R | 54D, 45R | |||||||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) |
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| 1953 | Emmett T. Anderson (R) | Don Eastvold (R) | 25R, 21D | 58R, 41D | Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson (D) | 6R, 1D | |||||||||
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| 1955 | 24R, 22D | 50D, 49R | |||||||||||||
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| 1957 | Albert Rosellini (D) | John Cherberg (D) | Victor Aloysius Meyers (D) | John J. O'Connell (D) | 31D, 15R | 56D, 43R | |||||||||
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| 1959 | 35D, 14R | 66D, 33R | |||||||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) |
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| 1961 | 36D, 13R | 60D, 39R | 5R, 2D | ||||||||||||
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| 1963 | 32D, 17R | 51D, 48R | 6R, 1D | ||||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) |
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| 1965 | Daniel J. Evans (R) | Lud Kramer (R) | Robert S. O'Brien (D) | Robert V. Graham (D) | Bert Cole (D) | Lee I. Kueckelhan (D) | 60D, 39R | 5D, 2R | |||||||
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| 1967 | 29D, 20R | 55R, 44D | |||||||||||||
| 1968 | Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie (D) |
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| 1969 | Slade Gorton (R) | Karl Hermann (D) | 27D, 22R | 56R, 43D | |||||||||||
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| 1971 | 29D, 20R | 51R, 48D | 6D, 1R | ||||||||||||
| 1972 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) |
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| 1973 | Frank Brouillet (NP) | 30D, 19R | 57D, 41R | ||||||||||||
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| 1975 | Bruce Chapman (R) | 62D, 36R | |||||||||||||
| 1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) |
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| 1977 | Dixy Lee Ray (D) | Richard G. Marquardt (R) | 5D, 2R | ||||||||||||
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| 1979 | 49D, 49R | 6D, 1R | |||||||||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) |
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| 1981 | John Spellman (R) | Ralph Munro (R) | Ken Eikenberry (R) | 25R, 24D | 56R, 42D | Slade Gorton (R) | 5D, 2R | ||||||||
| 1982 | 55R, 43D | ||||||||||||||
| 1983 | 26D, 23R | 54D, 44R | Daniel J. Evans (R) | 5D, 3R | |||||||||||
| 1984 | 53D, 45R | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Booth Gardner (D) | Brian Boyle (R) | 27D, 22R | ||||||||||||
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| 1987 | 25D, 24R | 61D, 37R | Brock Adams (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1988 | 25R, 24D | Michael Dukakis and Lloyd Bentsen (D) |
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| 1989 | Joel Pritchard (R) | Dan Grimm (D) | 63D, 35R | Slade Gorton (R) | |||||||||||
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| 1991 | 58D, 40R | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Bill Clinton and Al Gore (D) |
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| 1993 | Mike Lowry (D) | Christine Gregoire (D) | Brian Sonntag (D) | Jennifer Belcher (D) | Deborah Senn (D) | 28D, 21R | 65D, 33R | Patty Murray (D) | 8D, 1R | ||||||
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| 1995 | 25D, 24R | 61R, 37D | 7R, 2D | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | 62R, 36D | ||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Gary Locke (D) | Brad Owen (D) | Mike Murphy (D) | Terry Bergeson (NP) | 26R, 23D | 56R, 42D | 6R, 3D | ||||||||
| 1998 | 57R, 41D | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | 27D, 23R | 49D, 49R | 5D, 4R | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Al Gore and Joe Lieberman (D) |
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| 2001 | Sam Reed (R) | Doug Sutherland (R) | Mike Kreidler (D) | 25D, 24R | Maria Cantwell (D) | 6D, 3R | |||||||||
| 2002 | 50D, 48R | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | 25R, 24D | 52D, 46R | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | John Kerry and John Edwards (D) |
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| 2005 | Christine Gregoire (D) | Rob McKenna (R) | 26D, 23R | 55D, 43R | |||||||||||
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| 2007 | 32D, 17R | 62D, 36R | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | 63D, 35R | Barack Obama and Joe Biden (D) |
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| 2009 | Jim McIntire (D) | Peter J. Goldmark (D) | Randy Dorn (NP) | 31D, 18R | 62D, 36R | ||||||||||
| 2010 | 61D, 37R | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | 27D, 22R | 56D, 42R | 5D, 4R | ||||||||||||
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| 2013 | Jay Inslee (D) | Kim Wyman (R) | Bob Ferguson (D) | Troy Kelley (D) | 25 Coalition, 24D | 55D, 43R | 6D, 4R | ||||||||
| 2014 | 26 Coalition, 23D | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 25R, 24D | 51D, 47R | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | 50D, 48R | Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine (D) |
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| 2017 | Cyrus Habib (D) | Duane Davidson (R) | Pat McCarthy (D) | Hilary Franz (D) | Chris Reykdal (NP) | 25 Coalition, 24D | |||||||||
| Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Auditor | Comp. | Comm. of Ins. | Supt. of Pub. Inst. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class I) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
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