The following is a list of gubernatorial election results in the state of Washington from statehood in 1892 until the present.
Voting Record
1889
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Elisha P. Ferry*
|
Republican
|
33,711
|
58%
|
|
|
Eugene Semple
|
Democratic
|
24,732
|
42%
|
|
|
Write-ins
|
-
|
11
|
0%
|
|
1892
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
John H. McGraw
|
Republican
|
33,281
|
37%
|
|
|
Henry J. Snively
|
Democratic
|
28,960
|
32%
|
|
|
C. W. Young
|
People's
|
23,750
|
26%
|
|
|
Roger S. Greene
|
Prohibition
|
3,937
|
4%
|
|
1896
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
John R. Rogers
|
People's
|
50,849
|
56%
|
|
|
Potter C. Sullivan
|
Republican
|
38,154
|
42%
|
|
|
Robert E. Dunlap
|
Prohibition
|
2,542
|
3%
|
|
1900
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
John R. Rogers*
|
Democratic
|
52,048
|
49%
|
|
|
John M. Frink
|
Republican
|
49,860
|
47%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
4,543
|
4%
|
|
1904
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Albert E. Mead
|
Republican
|
74,278
|
51%
|
|
|
George Turner
|
Democratic
|
59,119
|
41%
|
|
|
David Burgess
|
Socialist
|
7,421
|
5%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
3,852
|
3%
|
|
1908
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Samuel G. Cosgrove
|
Republican
|
110,190
|
63%
|
|
|
John Pattison
|
Democratic
|
58,126
|
33%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
7,925
|
4%
|
|
1912
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Ernest Lister
|
Democratic
|
97,251
|
31%
|
|
|
Marion E. Hay
|
Republican
|
96,629
|
30%
|
|
|
Robert T. Hodge
|
Progressive
|
77,731
|
24%
|
|
|
Anna Agnes Maley
|
Socialist
|
37,155
|
12%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
9,532
|
3%
|
|
1916
|
Governor Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Ernest Lister*
|
Democratic
|
181,645
|
48%
|
|
|
Henry McBride
|
Republican
|
167,809
|
44%
|
|
|
L.E. Katterfeld
|
Socialist
|
21,117
|
6%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
6,431
|
2%
|
|
1920
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
Louis F. Hart
|
Republican
|
210,662
|
53%
|
|
|
Robert Bridges
|
Farmer-Labor
|
121,371
|
30%
|
|
|
W.W. Black
|
Democratic
|
66,079
|
17%
|
|
|
David Burgess
|
Socialist Labor
|
1,296
|
0%
|
|
1924
1928
1932
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1936
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1940
1944
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1948
1952
1956
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1960
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1964
1968
1972
1976
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1980
1984
|
Candidate
|
Party
|
Votes
|
%
|
Won
|
|
|
Democratic
|
|
%
|
|
|
|
Republican
|
|
%
|
|
|
Others
|
-
|
|
%
|
|
1988
1992
1996
2000
2004
2008
2012