2012 United States presidential election in Washington (state)


The 2012 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 6, 2012, as part of the 2012 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Washington voters chose 12 electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote pitting incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama and his running mate, Vice President Joe Biden, against Republican challenger and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and his running mate, Congressman Paul Ryan.
President Obama won the state of Washington comfortably, taking 56.16% to Mitt Romney's 41.29%, a 14.87% margin of victory. The election continued the state's blue trend; Washington has not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.

General election

Results

CountyDem Votes %Rep Votes %Other%Total
Adams1,54032.13%3,17166.16%1232.57%4,793
Asotin4,00340.43%5,65457.11%4975.02%9,901
Benton28,14535.38%49,46162.17%3,7404.70%79,559
Chelan13,11240.66%18,40257.06%1,2483.87%32,250
Clallam18,58048.81%18,43748.43%1,5994.20%38,066
Clark93,38248.94%92,95148.72%4,4726.01%190,805
Columbia64528.55%1,56869.41%893.94%2,259
Cowlitz22,72650.93%20,74646.49%1,9824.44%44,620
Douglas5,16634.57%9,42563.08%5483.67%14,942
Ferry1,29437.62%1,99557.99%982.85%3,440
Franklin8,39837.09%13,74860.72%8763.87%22,643
Garfield33626.29%91371.44%735.71%1,278
Grant8,95032.48%17,85264.78%9223.35%27,558
Grays Harbor15,96055.64%11,91441.54%1,2014.19%28,684
Island21,47851.02%19,60546.57%2,1105.01%42,099
Jefferson12,73964.24%6,40532.3%7673.87%19,829
King668,00469.07%275,70028.51%35,1153.63%967,154
Kitsap67,27754.53%52,84642.84%7,7496.28%123,367
Kittitas7,94943.75%9,78253.83%7834.31%18,171
Klickitat4,59844.75%5,31651.74%3203.11%10,274
Lewis12,66437.2%20,45260.08%1,2503.67%34,044
Lincoln1,67328.49%4,06369.19%1662.83%5,872
Mason14,76452.29%12,76145.2%1,4064.98%28,235
Okanogan7,10842.19%9,22154.74%4872.89%16,846
Pacific5,71154.27%4,49942.75%3223.06%10,524
Pend Oreille2,50837.61%3,95259.27%2143.21%6,668
Pierce186,43054.37%148,46743.3%18,0405.26%342,910
San Juan7,12567.26%3,11129.37%5114.82%10,594
Skagit28,68851.91%25,07145.36%2,5864.68%55,269
Skamania2,62848.08%2,68749.16%2734.99%5,466
Snohomish188,51656.16%133,01640.33%17,4585.29%329,817
Spokane102,29545.7%115,28551.51%11,1624.99%223,830
Stevens7,76235.03%13,69161.78%7333.31%22,161
Thurston74,03758.27%49,28738.79%7,1515.63%127,063
Wahkiakum1,09447.69%1,11948.78%803.49%2,294
Walla Walla9,76838.9%14,64858.34%1,1294.50%25,108
Whatcom57,08955.41%42,70341.45%4,6054.47%103,029
Whitman8,03746.94%8,50749.69%9675.65%17,121
Yakima33,21743.15%42,23954.88%2,5183.27%76,973

Democratic caucuses

Republican caucuses

The Republican caucuses were held on March 3, 2012, The additional preferential primary, as held since 1992, was canceled this year for budgetary reasons, as was the one in 2004. Caucus participants however did not allocate national delegates to the candidates, they did only elected delegates to the county conventions and took part in a nonbinding strawpoll. Only the state convention on May 31 – June 2, 2012 legally pledged delegates to the national convention to specific candidates.

Caucus results

With 3,677,919 registered voters as of February 29, the turnout was 1.4%.

Convention results