The Washington Secretary of State Office released the first count of ballots from the March 12 Presidential Primary, with voters showing overwhelming support for incumbent President Joe Biden as the Democratic party nominee, and former President Donald Trump representing the Republican party.
Over 1.25 million ballots have been counted across the state since the most recent update on the morning of March 13, with nearly 200,000 ballots estimated remaining to be counted. In Whatcom County, 161,486 votes have been counted as of 8 p.m. on March 13, with 1,900 ballots estimated left to count.
After picking up nominations in multiple states including Washington on Tuesday night, both Trump and Biden will be the presumptive presidential nominees for the second consecutive campaign season.
Biden won 85.7 percent of the 653,859 votes for the Democratic Party ballot across the state, and 82.7 percent of the 30,070 votes from Whatcom County.
Trump won 73.8 percent of the 599,070 votes cast statewide on the Republican side of the ballot, while earning a slightly higher 75.2 percent of the 24,666 votes from Whatcom County.
The Democratic ballot in Washington allowed for voters to choose “uncommitted delegates” instead of a specific preferred nominee. So far, more than 48,000 Washington voters (7.4 percent) and nearly 3,000 Whatcom County voters (9.6 percent) voted uncommitted.
Across multiple Super Tuesday states, more than 250,000 people rejected the incumbent president’s reelection bid, with multiple news outlets reporting that many are using the ballot as a way to send a message of disapproval over the Biden administration’s support of Israel through the war in Gaza, which now enters its sixth month.
The Whatcom County Auditor’s Office will release another ballot count at 5 p.m. on March 13, and certify the primary results on March 26.
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