Moses Lake, WA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1912–2024 · 29 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
85.6%
4,560 votes · D+72.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · 73.1%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
68.5%
17,799 votes · R+38.5
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 68.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
11,819votes
31.4% of the vote · R+34.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 10,806 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
24,764votes
65.7% of the vote · R+34.4
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 24,326 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
+48.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+72.6 · U.S. D+24.3
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940 · +36.7 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2020
+38.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+34.4 · U.S. D+4.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · +38.7 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Moses Lake, WA · which candidate this place backed in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain, and this place is a single county: Grant County, Washington. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Moses Lake, WA, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
Total registered voters, over time
Registered voters
Voter registration in Moses Lake, WA
Year
Total registered
2016
45,920
2018
43,352
2020
51,016
2022
52,615
2024
56,306
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
−263 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +321 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Moses Lake, WA in Moses Lake, WA: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+100
2012
−104
2013
−596
2014
+87
2015
−482
2016
−439
2017
+265
2018
+448
2019
+215
2021
+330
2022
+205
2023
+445
2024
+110
2025
−263
Moses Lake anchors Grant County, one of Washington's most reliably Republican rural counties, where potato farming, food processing, and a growing semiconductor manufacturing presence shape a working-class electorate that swings well right of the state median.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 72.6 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 38.5 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 37.3 points.
A population of 101,799, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $73,267 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Victoria, TX and Othello, WA.
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The metros whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
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In 2024, Moses Lake, WA, Washington voted Republican by 37.3 points (R+37.3), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 36,253 votes cast, 10,806 went Democratic and 24,326 went Republican.
When did Moses Lake, WA, Washington last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Moses Lake, WA, Washington voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Moses Lake, WA, Washington?
Moses Lake, WA, Washington has a population of 101,799 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Moses Lake, WA, Washington?
Median household income in Moses Lake, WA, Washington is $73,267 — below the national median of $80,734. The Washington state median is $98,141.
What is the political history of Moses Lake, WA, Washington?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Moses Lake, WA, Washington from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 8 went Democratic and 19 went Republican.
