United States Presidential Elections In The District Of Columbia
In the 2000 presidential election, Barbara Lett-Simmons, an elector from the district, left her ballot blank to protest its lack of voting representation in Congress. As a result, Al Gore received only two of the three electoral votes from Washington, D.C. In 2016, 85.7% of the registered voters approved a statehood referendum. In recent times, there have been various statehood movements in the District of Columbia, which advocates making the district a state.
The district is a signatory of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, an interstate compact in which signatories award all of their electoral votes to the winner of the national-level popular vote in a presidential election, even if another candidate won an individual signatory's popular vote. As of 2023, it has not yet gone into force.
Presidential elections
Key for parties |
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Democratic Party – (D)
Green Party – (G)
Independent candidate – (I)
Libertarian Party – (LI)
New Alliance Party – (NA)
Republican Party – (R)
Socialist Workers Party – (SW)
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Year | Winner | Runner-up | Other candidate | EV | Ref. | |||||||||
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Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | Candidate | Votes | % | ||||||
Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 169,796 | 85.5% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 28,801 | 14.5% | — | — | — | 3 | |||||
Hubert Humphrey (D) | 139,566 | 81.82% | Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 31,012 | 18.18% | — | — | — | 3 | |||||
George McGovern (D) | 127,627 | 78.1% | Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 35,226 | 21.56% | Linda Jenness (SW) | 316 | 0.19% | 3 | |||||
Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 137,818 | 81.63% | Gerald Ford (R) | 27,873 | 16.51% | Peter Camejo (SW) | 545 | 0.32% | 3 | |||||
Jimmy Carter (D) | 130,231 | 74.32% | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 23,313 | 13.3% | John B. Anderson (I) | 16,131 | 9.21% | 3 | |||||
Walter Mondale (D) | 180,408 | 85.38% | Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 29,009 | 13.73% | David Bergland (LI) | 279 | 0.13% | 3 | |||||
Michael Dukakis (D) | 159,407 | 82.65% | George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 27,590 | 14.3% | Lenora Fulani (NA) | 2,901 | 1.5% | 3 | |||||
Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 192,619 | 84.64% | George H. W. Bush (R) | 20,698 | 9.1% | Ross Perot (I) | 9,681 | 4.25% | 3 | |||||
Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 158,220 | 85.19% | Bob Dole (R) | 17,339 | 9.34% | Ralph Nader (G) | 4,780 | 2.57% | 3 | |||||
Al Gore (D) | 171,923 | 85.16% | George W. Bush (R) ‡ | 18,073 | 8.95% | Ralph Nader (G) | 10,576 | 5.24% | 2 | |||||
John Kerry (D) | 202,970 | 89.18% | George W. Bush (R)‡ | 21,256 | 9.34% | Ralph Nader (I) | 1,485 | 0.65% | 3 | |||||
Barack Obama (D)‡ | 245,800 | 92.46% | John McCain (R) | 17,367 | 6.53% | Ralph Nader (I) | 1,138 | 0.43% | 3 | |||||
Barack Obama (D)‡ | 267,070 | 90.91% | Mitt Romney (R) | 21,381 | 7.28% | Jill Stein (G) | 2,458 | 0.84% | 3 | |||||
Hillary Clinton (D) | 282,830 | 90.86% | Donald Trump (R)‡ | 12,723 | 4.09% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 4,906 | 1.58% | 3 | |||||
Joe Biden (D)‡ | 317,323 | 92.15% | Donald Trump (R) | 18,586 | 5.4% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 2,036 | 0.59% | 3 |
Graph
The following graph shows the margin of victory of the Democratic Party over the Republican Party in the 15 presidential elections the District of Columbia participated.
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