President Obama won the state of Washington comfortably, taking 56.16% to Mitt Romney's 41.29%, a 14.87% margin of victory.[1] The election continued the state's blue trend; Washington has not voted for a Republican since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
General Election
Results
United States presidential election in Washington, 2012
Results of the non-binding strawpoll by county. Orange indicates a county won by Romney, gold by Paul, dark green by Santorum.
The Republican caucuses were held on March 3, 2012,[2] The additional preferential primary, as held since 1992, was canceled this year for budgetary reasons, as was the one in 2004.[3] 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,[4] the turnout was 1.4%.[5]
Washington state Republican caucuses nonbinding strawpoll
Mitt Romney
