United States presidential elections in Washington, D.C.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Washington, D.C., ordered by year. Since the adoption of the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961, Washington, D.C. has had three electoral votes in the election of the President and Vice President of the United States, and has participated in every U.S. presidential election since that time. Washington, D.C., has voted for the candidate of the Democratic party in every presidential election. Unlike any state, the district has gone to the overall losing candidate in the majority of elections in which it has participated.
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| No. of elections | 15 |
|---|---|
| Voted Democratic | 15 |
| Voted Republican | 0 |
| Voted other | 0 |
| Voted for winning candidate | 7 |
| Voted for losing candidate | 8 |
Winners of the district are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
| Year | Winner (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | Votes | Percent | Other national candidates[lower-alpha 1] |
Votes | Percent | Electoral Votes |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020[1] | Joe Biden | 317,323 | 92.1 | Donald Trump | 18,586 | 5.4 | – | 3 | |||
| 2016[2] | Donald Trump[lower-alpha 2] | 12,723 | 4.09 | Hillary Clinton | 282,830 | 90.86 | – | 3 | |||
| 2012[3] | Barack Obama | 267,070 | 90.91 | Mitt Romney | 21,381 | 7.28 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 2008[4] | Barack Obama | 245,800 | 92.46 | John McCain | 17,367 | 6.53 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 2004[5] | George W. Bush | 21,256 | 9.34 | John Kerry | 202,970 | 89.18 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 2000[6] | George W. Bush[lower-alpha 2] | 18,073 | 8.95 | Al Gore | 171,923 | 85.16 | – | – | – | 2 | electoral vote split: 2 to Gore, 1 faithless elector abstained from voting |
| 1996[7] | Bill Clinton | 158,220 | 85.19 | Bob Dole | 17,339 | 9.34 | Ross Perot | 3,611 | 1.94 | 3 | |
| 1992 | Bill Clinton | 192,619 | 84.64 | George H. W. Bush | 20,698 | 9.10 | Ross Perot | 9,681 | 4.25 | 3 | |
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush | 27,590 | 14.30 | Michael Dukakis | 159,407 | 82.65 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 1984 | Ronald Reagan | 29,009 | 13.73 | Walter Mondale | 180,408 | 85.38 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | 23,313 | 13.41 | Jimmy Carter | 130,231 | 74.89 | John B. Anderson | 16,131 | 9.28 | 3 | |
| 1976 | Jimmy Carter | 137,818 | 81.63 | Gerald Ford | 27,873 | 16.51 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 1972 | Richard Nixon | 35,226 | 21.56 | George McGovern | 127,627 | 78.10 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 1968 | Richard Nixon | 31,012 | 18.18 | Hubert Humphrey | 139,566 | 81.82 | – | – | – | 3 | |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson | 169,796 | 85.50 | Barry Goldwater | 28,801 | 14.50 | – | – | – | 3 |
Notes
- For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
- Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
Citations
- "Presidential Election Results: Biden Wins". The New York Times. Retrieved November 15, 2020.
- 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
- 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
- 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
- "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
- "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
- "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
See also
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