1986 general · November 4, 1986

1986 Washington election results

Every race on Washington's ballot in the 1986 general election: winners, margins and seats that changed party.

Races131

Changed party12

Unopposed8%10 races

Incumbents defeated3

U.S. Senate

D 1 · 1 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
Washington	Brockman Adams (D)	2.0	Flipped

D 5 · R 3

Race	Winner	Won by
WA-1	John Miller (R)	2.8
WA-2	Allan Swift (D)	44.4
WA-3	Don Bonker (D)	47.1
WA-4	Sidney Morrison (R)	44.1
WA-5	Thomas Foley (D)	49.4
WA-6	Norman D. Dicks (D)	42.4
WA-7	Mike Lowry (D)	45.3
WA-8	Rodney Chandler (R)	30.4

D 13 · R 11 · 2 changed party

Race	Winner	Won by	Notes
LD-6	Jim West (R)	2.0
LD-7	Scott Barr (R)	19.9
LD-8	Max Benitz (R)	30.9
LD-13	Frank Hansen (D)	25.3
LD-15	Irving Newhouse (R)	0.1
LD-21	Gary Nelson (R)	22.1	Flipped
LD-26	Bill Smitherman (D)	5.1
LD-29	A. L. Rasmussen (D)	60.0
LD-30	Peter Vonreichbauer (R)	10.4
LD-31	Frank Warnke (D)	Unopposed
LD-32	Al Williams (D)	58.5
LD-33	Eleanor Lee (R)	37.0
LD-34	Phil Talmadge (D)	53.3
LD-35	Brad Owen (D)	40.5
LD-36	Ray Moore (D)	14.6
LD-37	George Fleming (D)	68.5
LD-38	Larry L. Vognild (D)	33.7
LD-42	Ann Anderson (R)	9.2	Flipped
LD-43	James A. McDermott (D)	Unopposed
LD-44	Rick S. Bender (D)	1.2
LD-45	Alan Bluechel (R)	18.8
LD-46	Nita Rinehart (D)	30.4
LD-47	Kent Pullen (R)	9.1
LD-48	Dan McDonald (R)	48.6

D 61 · R 37 · 9 changed party

Results are each source's final count; margins are the winner's lead over the runner-up in points of the vote. Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl Klarner; MIT Election Data and Science Lab