Editing Pacific County, Washington (section)

==Politics==
Pacific County, along with neighboring [[Grays Harbor County, Washington|Grays Harbor County]], were among the most consistently Democratic counties in the nation. In 2016, however, the county, like Grays Harbor County, broke its long streak of backing the Democratic candidate for president, voting for the Republican candidate. The county backed Trump again in 2020, voting for a losing Republican for the first time since 1916. It backed Trump again in 2024, with him winning it by a margin of 1.30%, a slight increase from his margin of 1.13% in 2020.

{{PresHead|place=Pacific County, Washington|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=April 10, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 1,251 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 382 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 82 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur Reimer]] received 11 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|7,010|6,825|409|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|6,953|6,794|317|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,360|4,620|992|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|4,499|5,711|426|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|4,555|6,094|406|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|4,634|5,570|227|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|4,042|4,895|582|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,598|5,095|1,418|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,243|4,587|2,422|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|3,073|5,017|110|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|3,613|4,679|129|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|3,132|3,727|1,153|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,781|4,278|291|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|3,349|3,585|232|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|2,491|3,740|374|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,789|5,056|15|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|3,224|3,837|29|Washington (state)}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|3,799|3,824|12|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,846|3,778|39|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,749|3,902|401|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,419|3,745|12|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,704|4,393|48|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,732|4,395|320|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,737|3,099|752|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,247|1,523|47|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,672|501|965|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,607|874|495|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,688|1,537|293|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|1,375|971|1,726|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,492|483|178|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,354|258|147|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|887|393|49|Washington}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|925|562|24|Washington}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|759|559|125|Washington}}