How Oregon has voted since 1960
Oregon has 8 electoral votes in 2028, and at the current pace of population change it would lose one electoral vote after the 2030 census. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic 11 times and Republican 6 times. It has backed the national winner in 10 of 17 elections. Kamala Harris carried it in 2024 by 14.3 points, 15.8 points more Democratic than the nation. In 2024, 71.9% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 7th among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Democratic in every election since 1988. Its closest result was in 1976, when Gerald Ford won it by 1,713 votes.
- 1960Nixon+5.2
- 1964Johnson+27.8
- 1968Nixon+6.1
- 1972Nixon+10.1
- 1976Ford+0.2
- 1980Reagan+9.7
- 1984Reagan+12.2
- 1988Dukakis+4.7
- 1992Clinton+10.0
- 1996Clinton+8.1
- 2000Gore+0.4
- 2004Kerry+4.2
- 2008Obama+16.4
- 2012Obama+12.1
- 2016Clinton+11.0
- 2020Biden+16.1
- 2024Harris+14.3
Each box is one election: the winner in Oregon and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.
Election night
11 p.m. ET
Polls close at 11 p.m. ET (8 p.m. Pacific); in Malheur County (Mountain Time) they close at 10 p.m. ET.
Also closing at 11 p.m. ET: CA, WA.
Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.
2028 ratings
- Safe D Electoral Vote Map Sept. 28, 2026
In Congress
Senate
- Ron Wyden (D) since 1996
- Jeff Merkley (D) since 2009
House: 5 Democrats, 1 Republican
All 6 members
- 1 Suzanne Bonamici (D)
- 2 Cliff Bentz (R)
- 3 Maxine Dexter (D)
- 4 Val T. Hoyle (D)
- 5 Janelle S. Bynum (D)
- 6 Andrea Salinas (D)
From Congress.gov, as of Sept. 28, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.
Margin by election
Oregon margin National popular vote
By county
Donald Trump won 27 of Oregon's 36 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 9.
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Largest counties, 2024
| County | Votes | Margin | Shift from 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multnomah County | 414,250 | D+61.6 | →D 0.3 |
| Washington County | 297,949 | D+33.7 | →R 0.9 |
| Clackamas County | 246,240 | D+9.8 | →R 1.2 |
| Lane County | 211,285 | D+22.9 | →R 1.4 |
| Marion County | 156,691 | R+2.0 | →R 3.1 |
| Deschutes County | 127,375 | D+10.4 | →D 2.2 |
| Jackson County | 119,572 | R+6.4 | →R 3.0 |
| Linn County | 71,429 | R+24.3 | →R 0.9 |
| Douglas County | 61,807 | R+37.5 | 0.0 |
| Yamhill County | 57,800 | R+6.1 | →R 2.1 |
Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Jefferson County (6.4), Umatilla County (5.6), Morrow County (4.7); toward the Democrat, Lincoln County (2.3), Deschutes County (2.2), Baker County (1.7) — in points of margin.
County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.
Results by year
| Year | Winner | Democrat | Republican | Other | Margin | Nation | Turnout | EV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Kamala HarrisHarris lost | Harris 55.3%1,240,600 | Trump 41.0%919,480 | 3.8% | D+14.3 | R+1.5 | 71.9% | 8 |
| 2020 | Joe BidenBiden | Biden 56.5%1,340,383 | Trump 40.4%958,448 | 3.2% | D+16.1 | D+4.5 | 75.3% | 7 |
| 2016 | Hillary ClintonClinton lost | Clinton 50.1%1,002,106 | Trump 39.1%782,403 | 10.8% | D+11.0 | D+2.1 | 68.2% | 7 |
| 2012 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 54.2%970,488 | Romney 42.2%754,175 | 3.6% | D+12.1 | D+3.9 | 64.3% | 7 |
| 2008 | Barack ObamaObama | Obama 56.8%1,037,291 | McCain 40.4%738,475 | 2.9% | D+16.4 | D+7.3 | 68.3% | 7 |
| 2004 | John KerryKerry lost | Kerry 51.4%943,163 | Bush 47.2%866,831 | 1.5% | D+4.2 | R+2.5 | 73.0% | 7 |
| 2000 | Al GoreGore lost | Gore 47.0%720,342 | Bush 46.5%713,577 | Nader 5.0% | D+0.4 | D+0.5 | 64.5% | 7 |
| 1996 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 47.2%649,641 | Dole 39.1%538,152 | Perot 8.8% | D+8.1 | D+8.5 | 60.6% | 7 |
| 1992 | Bill ClintonClinton | Clinton 42.5%621,314 | Bush 32.5%475,757 | Perot 24.2% | D+10.0 | D+5.6 | 69.9% | 7 |
| 1988 | Michael DukakisDukakis lost | Dukakis 51.3%616,206 | Bush 46.6%560,126 | 2.1% | D+4.7 | R+7.7 | 62.3% | 7 |
| 1984 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Mondale 43.7%536,479 | Reagan 55.9%685,700 | 0.4% | R+12.2 | R+18.2 | 66.4% | 7 |
| 1980 | Ronald ReaganReagan | Carter 38.7%456,890 | Reagan 48.3%571,044 | Anderson 9.5% | R+9.7 | R+9.7 | 64.3% | 6 |
| 1976 | Gerald FordFord lost | Carter 47.6%490,407 | Ford 47.8%492,120 | 4.6% | R+0.2 | D+2.1 | — | 6 |
| 1972 | Richard NixonNixon | McGovern 42.3% | Nixon 52.5% | 5.2% | R+10.1 | R+23.2 | — | 6 |
| 1968 | Richard NixonNixon | Humphrey 43.8% | Nixon 49.8% | Wallace 6.1% | R+6.1 | R+0.7 | — | 6 |
| 1964 | Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnson | Johnson 63.7% | Goldwater 36.0% | 0.3% | D+27.8 | D+22.6 | — | 6 |
| 1960 | Richard NixonNixon lost | Kennedy 47.3% | Nixon 52.6% | 0.1% | R+5.2 | D+0.2 | — | 6 |
Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).
Electoral votes
Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.
- 619601950 census
- 61964–19681960 census
- 61972–19801970 census
- 71984–19881980 census
- 71992–20001990 census
- 72004–20082000 census
- 72012–20202010 census
- 82024–20282020 census
- 72032–2040projected
Projected: Oregon's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 7. An estimate, not a forecast.
Before 1960
Oregon cast electoral votes in 25 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1860. It backed the eventual president in 20 of them.
| Year | Carried by | Electors | Margin | Backed winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | 6 | +10.5 | ✓ |
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican | 6 | +21.7 | ✓ |
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey Republican | 6 | +3.5 | – |
| 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 6 | +4.9 | ✓ |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 5 | +8.1 | ✓ |
| 1936 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 5 | +37.0 | ✓ |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic | 5 | +22.3 | ✓ |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover Republican | 5 | +30.6 | ✓ |
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge Republican | 5 | +26.6 | ✓ |
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding Republican | 5 | +28.4 | ✓ |
| 1916 | Charles Evans Hughes Republican | 5 | +2.7 | – |
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson Democratic | 5 | +7.1 | ✓ |
| 1908 | William Howard Taft Republican | 4 | +24.6 | ✓ |
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt Republican | 4 | +55.4 | ✓ |
| 1900 | William McKinley Republican | 4 | +16.4 | ✓ |
| 1896 | William McKinley Republican | 4 | +2.1 | ✓ |
| 1892 | Benjamin Harrison RepublicanSplit: Harrison 3, Weaver 1 | 4 | +10.7 | – |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison Republican | 3 | +11.3 | ✓ |
| 1884 | James G. Blaine Republican | 3 | +4.4 | – |
| 1880 | James A. Garfield Republican | 3 | +1.6 | ✓ |
| 1876 | Rutherford B. Hayes Republican | 3 | +3.6 | ✓ |
| 1872 | Ulysses S. Grant Republican | 3 | +20.8 | ✓ |
| 1868 | Horatio Seymour Democratic | 3 | +0.7 | – |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln Republican | 3 | +7.8 | ✓ |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln Republican | 3 | +1.7 | ✓ |
Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.

