United States presidential election in Washington, 2008

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[edit] Democratic Primary

By the time that the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary process had reached Washington State on February 9th, the field had been narrowed down to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Mike Gravel. On Saturday, Feb. 9th, Washington's Democrats held Precinct Caucuses in 67 caucus jurisdictions around the state.

The Washington State Democratic Party allocated all of their delegates to the 2008 Democratic National Convention through the caucus system. The precinct caucuses were held on February 9th. The Legislative District caucuses will be held on April 5th. The Congressional District caucuses will be held on May 17th. The State Convention is in Spokane on June 14th.

[edit] Democratic Precinct Caucus Results

Candidate Precinct level delegates  % Delegates
Barack Obama 21,697 67.54%
Hillary Clinton 10,013 31.17%
Uncommitted 364 1.13%
Dennis Kucinich 24 0.07%
John Edwards 8 0.02%
Bill Richardson 3 0.40%
Mike Gravel 2 0.01%
Al Gore 1 0.00%
Total Delegates 32,162

[edit] Democratic Primary Results

Candidate Votes  % Votes
Barack Obama 354,112 51.22%
Hillary Clinton 315,744 45.67%
John Edwards 11,892 1.72%
Dennis Kucinich 4,021 0.58%
Bill Richardson 2,040 0.30%
Joe Biden 1,883 0.27%
Mike Gravel 1,071 0.15%
Christopher Dodd 618 0.09%
Total Votes 691381 100.00%

[edit] Republican Primary

The Washington State Republican Party allocated half of the delegates to the 2008 Republican National Convention from the February 9th Precinct Caucuses, and half from the February 19th Primary Election.

[edit] Republican Precinct Caucus Results

Candidate  % Delegates
John McCain 25.3%
Mike Huckabee 23.2%
Ron Paul 21.5%
Mitt Romney 15.5%
Uncommitted 13.5%
Other 1.1%.

[edit] Republican Primary Election Results

Candidate Votes  % Votes
John McCain 262,304 49.50%
Mike Huckabee 127,657 24.09%
Mitt Romney 86,140 16.25%
Ron Paul 40,539 7.65%
Rudy Giuliani 5,145 0.97%
Fred Thompson 4,865 0.92%
Alan Keyes 2,226 0.42%
Duncan Hunter 1,056 0.20%
Total Votes 529,932

[edit] General election

[edit] See also

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