Participation measured against the same-year citizen voting-age population. Audited cycles count total general-election participants — ballots or participating voters, not presidential candidate votes.
2016–20245 cycles · 5 audited
2024 turnout
76.2%48,112 participants ÷ 63,175 CVAP
2020→2022 drop-off
+22.5 ptsPresidential-dependent
Drop-off vs state
+1.4 ptsPositive means a larger decline than the statewide pattern
Mechanical 2026
53.7%–61.5%Recent-cycle and two-cycle persistence scenarios; not a forecast
Participation by cycle
Presidential Midterm
0%20%40%60%80%
69.5%
60.1%
20162018202020222024
Select a presidential cycle to show it on the map and results ledger above.
Cycle
Participants
CVAP
Turnout
Series
Quality
48,112
63,175 ± 1,625
76.2%
Audited
E/A
2022Mid
37,890
63,086 ± 1,667
60.1%
Audited
E/A
51,614
62,518 ± 1,566
82.6%
Audited
E/A
2018Mid
42,269
60,793 ± 1,408
69.5%
Audited
E/A
45,492
59,535 ± 1,153
76.4%
Audited
E/A
Sources and methods
2024: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 323/229.
2022: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 322/184.
2020: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 321/4.
2018: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 320/139.
2016: numerator source 160, denominator source 157; estimated total ballots; preferred-county:block-reference-presidential-or-cvap-weight:v2; allocation share 100.0%; series 319/133.
presidential history
Party record book
Kirkland, WA · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
2004–2024 · 6 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
72.6%
37,163 votes · D+48.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 71.6%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
39.4%
15,910 votes · D+19.8
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 34.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
37,163votes
72.6% of the vote · D+48.4
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 34,053 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
15,910votes
39.4% of the vote · D+19.8
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 14,940 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
Kamala Harris2024
+48.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+47.5 · U.S. R+1.5
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +43.9 pts
Republican
George W. Bush2004
−22.3pts R vs U.S.
Place D+19.8 · U.S. R+2.5
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · −24.2 pts
presidential primaries
Nominating contests
Kirkland · 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. The figures below are King County, Washington, the county containing Kirkland — Kirkland’s own primary vote sits inside those totals and is not separately reported.
Presidential nominating contests in Kirkland, 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.
Kirkland sits on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, its electorate shaped by a dense concentration of tech-sector professionals whose above-average turnout and high educational attainment make it a closely watched bellwether within King County.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 48.4 points in 2020. Between 2020 and 2024 the city moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 47.5 points.
A population of 92,621, a 65% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $150,414 describe the city. The city's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bothell and Issaquah.
Akashic
Political twins — cities
The cities whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Kirkland, Washington voted Democratic by 47.5 points (D+47.5), carried by the Democratic candidate. Out of 47,548 votes cast, 34,053 went Democratic and 11,479 went Republican.
How many people live in Kirkland, Washington?
Kirkland, Washington has a population of 92,621 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Kirkland, Washington?
Median household income in Kirkland, Washington is $150,414 — above the national median of $80,734. The Washington state median is $98,141.
What is the political history of Kirkland, Washington?
Akashic tracks 6 presidential elections in Kirkland, Washington from 2004 to 2024. Of those, 6 went Democratic and 0 went Republican.
