Washington elections in 2026
12 electoral votes · 10 House seats · Pacific · no statewide race on the 2026 ballot
House delegation as simulated: 7 D, 2 R, 1 tossup of 10 districts swept.
Model readings of live reporting, not polling. The full Washington board, with sourcing and the county map where one exists, is on the Midterms 2026 tab of the homepage.
How Washington votes
Washington pairs the Seattle area's technology economy with agricultural and timber regions east of the Cascades. Democrats lead statewide, and housing costs, transportation and energy siting dominate its politics.
Its largest population centers include Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, Vancouver. Where a state's people live, and what those places do for a living, is the starting point for how Electorate HQ simulations reason about it.
On the ballot in Washington
Election day is November 3, 2026. Washington has no statewide race and 10 House seats on the ballot.
Statewide races
No Senate seat or governorship is up in Washington this cycle. Every House seat still is.
House districts
Every House seat is elected every two years. Each district below is listed with the counties inside it, computed from the current Census boundary files, wherever those files give a clean answer. Not sure which district is yours? Use the address lookup below.
- Washington 1st district: entirely within Snohomish County
- Washington 2nd district: Island, San Juan, Skagit, Whatcom Counties
- Washington 3rd district: Clark, Cowlitz, Lewis, Pacific, Skamania, Wahkiakum Counties
- Washington 4th district: Benton, Douglas, Grant, Klickitat, Okanogan, Yakima Counties
- Washington 5th district: Adams, Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille and 4 more counties (12 in all)
- Washington 6th district: Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, Kitsap, Mason Counties
- Washington 7th district: entirely within King County
- Washington 8th district: Chelan, King, Kittitas, Pierce, Snohomish Counties
- Washington 9th district: entirely within King County
- Washington 10th district: Thurston County
Find your exact districts
Your address goes to the U.S. Census Bureau's public geocoder to find your districts. It is not stored, and no AI sees it.
Which district am I in? Washington districts by county
House districts follow population, not county lines, so a single county can hold several districts and a single district can span many. Each county is listed under the district that holds its center, so if your county appears once above, that district holds most of it and is probably yours. If it appears under several, or if you live near a district line, use the address lookup for the exact answer.
Before you vote in Washington
Registration deadlines, early voting windows, mail ballot rules and identification requirements are all set at the state level and change between cycles, so the authoritative source is your own election office rather than any national site. The federal directory at vote.gov links to every state's registration system, and your county election office publishes the sample ballot that includes local contests.
The ballot section above covers the federal and statewide offices on the Washington ballot for November 3, 2026. Each statewide race links to a page with current coverage and an AI-generated simulation of the contest, always labeled as a simulation rather than a poll.
Local races
Local councils and commissions, school boards, judges, sheriffs and municipal offices are also on many Washington ballots, and they vary block by block. Your county election office publishes the authoritative local sample ballot.
Washington's weight in Washington
Washington carries 12 electoral votes, which ranks it 13 of 51 by that measure, and sends 10 voting members to the House.
That arithmetic is why the same national argument lands differently here than in a state of another size: a candidate courting Washington is competing for a specific share of the map, and the issues below are the ones that share actually turns on.
How Washington is represented
Washington is divided into 10 House districts, each drawn to hold roughly the same number of people, while its two Senate seats represent the state as a whole. A campaign here therefore runs two different arguments at once: a local one shaped by whichever district a voter lives in, and a statewide one that has to hold together across all 10.
Electoral votes follow the same arithmetic, House seats plus two, which is why Washington carries 12 in a presidential year and why small states carry proportionally more weight there than population alone would give them. The district list above shows every district on the 2026 ballot and the counties the boundary files place inside each one.
Issues that weigh heavily in Washington
Based on the state's industry mix, geography and cost of living, these issues tend to carry structural weight in Washington elections:
Latest Washington political headlines
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In the Electorate HQ simulator, Washington is one of 51 delegations that reads current reporting and decides a presidential race issue by issue. Results are AI simulations, clearly labeled, with the reasoning shown for every call. See the methodology for what that does and does not mean.
Analysis covering Washington
In five states, the House race is the entire federal ballot in 2026
Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Utah and Washington have no Senate or governor race in 2026. Thirty-two House contests are the entire federal ballot.
Election night is reported in 3,142 counties and decided in 435 districts
The unit America counts votes in and the unit America allocates House seats in are different shapes, and they do not nest inside each other.
Why this site runs simulations and refuses to call them forecasts
A simulation with no polling input cannot be a forecast, and dressing one up as the other is the most common way election tools mislead people.