United States presidential election in Washington, 2008

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Contents 1 Democratic Primary 1.1 Democratic Precinct Caucus Results 1.2 Democratic Primary Results 2 Republican Primary 2.1 Republican Precinct Caucus Results 2.2 Republican Primary Election Results 3 General election 4 See also

[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

v • d • e Washington State 2008 Elections President (D Caucus, R Caucus, R Primary) • US House • Governor • Executives • State Supreme Court • Judicial Elections • State Senate • State House • Local Elections