1984Flipped from RepublicanFinal results
1984 election for Washington Governor
Governor · Washington
Booth Gardner (D) won with 53.3% of the vote, defeating John D. Spellman (R) by 6.6 points, flipping a seat Republicans held.
Booth GardnerDemocrat · winner
53.3%1,006,993
John D. SpellmanRepublican
46.7%881,994
1,888,987 votes
Source: Algara, Carlos; Amlani, Sharif (Harvard Dataverse)Updated Oct 5, 2026, 12:23 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 1984
Races before and after
Source: Past results: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)