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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 abstract "The 1988 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Washington voters chose 10 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.Washington was won by Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, who was running against incumbent Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas. Dukakis ran with Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen, and Bush ran with Indiana Senator Dan Quayle.Dukakis carried Washington state with 50.05% of the vote to Bush's 48.46%, a margin of 1.59%. This made Washington one of 10 states (along with the District of Columbia) to vote for Dukakis, even as Bush won a convincing victory nationally. Washington weighed in for this election as over 9% more Democratic than the national average.For decades prior to 1988, Washington had been a swing state, and it had gone Republican in the four preceding elections, even voting for losing Republican candidate Gerald Ford in 1976. But the state's strong Democratic tilt in 1988 portended the political direction the state would take in the modern era. Dukakis's 1988 victory began a Democratic winning streak in Washington state that has never been broken since. Washington's Democratic trend was largely driven by the dramatic shift toward the Democrats among urban and suburban voters that began in the 1980s. While Bush won many rural counties, Dukakis won the two most heavily populated counties in Washington state: King County and Pierce County. King County, home to the city of Seattle and its surrounding suburbs, was and is by far the most heavily populated county in the state, and a bellwether county for the state as a whole. In every presidential election since Washington achieved statehood, the candidate who won King County also won Washington state as a whole. While the city of Seattle had long leaned Democratic, the surrounding suburbs had long leaned Republican, making King County a swing county, and thus Washington state a swing state. In 1976, moderate Republican Gerald Ford had carried Washington state 50-46, while winning King County 51-45. In the 1984 Republican landslide, Ronald Reagan won King County by a 52-47 margin. However Michael Dukakis in 1988 won King County by a 54-45 margin, a raw vote difference of 59,089 votes, providing more than the entire 29,681 raw vote difference by which he carried Washington state as a whole. The 1988 result started a yet-unbroken Democratic winning streak in King County, and would prove to be the start of a long-term dramatic shift toward the Democratic Party in the county and thus in the state as a whole. As the city of Seattle grew, and the suburbs continued abandoning the GOP and increasingly trended Democratic in the 1990s and 2000s, King County would be transformed from a swing county prior to 1988 into a Democratic stronghold; 20 years later, in 2008, Democrat Barack Obama would receive over 70% of the vote in King County. The Democratic dominance in King County that began in 1988 would solidify Washington as a strong blue state in the modern era.".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 country Washington_(state).
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 startDate "1988-11-08".
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 title "United States presidential election in Washington, 1988".
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 afterElection George_H._W._Bush.
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 afterParty "Republican Party".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 beforeElection Ronald_Reagan.
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 beforeParty "Republican Party".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 country "Washington".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 electionDate "1988-11-08".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 electionName "United States presidential election in Washington, 1988".
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 electoralVote "10".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 homeState Massachusetts.
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 homeState Texas.
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 mapCaption "County Results".
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 nextElection "United States presidential election in Washington, 1992".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 nextYear "1992".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 nominee George_H._W._Bush.
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 nominee "Michael Dukakis".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 ongoing "no".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 party "Democratic Party".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 party "Republican Party".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 percentage "48.46".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 percentage "50.05".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 popularVote "903835".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 popularVote "933516".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 previousElection "United States presidential election in Washington, 1984".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 previousYear "1984".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 runningMate Dan_Quayle.
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 runningMate "Lloyd Bentsen".
- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 title "President".
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- United_States_presidential_election_in_Washington_(state),_1988 comment "The 1988 United States presidential election in Washington took place on November 8, 1988. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1988 United States presidential election. Washington voters chose 10 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the President and Vice President.Washington was won by Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, who was running against incumbent Republican Vice President George H. W. Bush of Texas.".
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