2008 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia

2008 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia
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President before election; George W. Bush; Republican	Elected President ; Barack Obama; Democratic

The 2008 United States presidential election in the District of Columbia took place on November 4, 2008, and was part of the 2008 United States presidential election. In D.C., voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Prior to the election, the nation's capital was considered to be a certain lock for Obama. Washington D.C. is fiercely Democratic and has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election by large margins since 1964 when the District gained the right to electoral representation through the 23rd amendment.

The District of Columbia went to Democrat Barack Obama by a margin of 210,403 votes out of 225,224 votes cast, about 92% of the total vote.^[1] As of 2020, this remains the largest share of the popular vote ever won by any candidate in the District of Columbia since it was granted electoral votes in 1961. This was larger than John Kerry's in 2004, when he won the District with about 89% of the vote.^[2]

Obama received the largest vote share for a major party nominee in any jurisdiction since Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 United States presidential election in Mississippi.

^ "CNN Election Center 2008 - District of Columbia Results". Retrieved November 27, 2008.
^ "Electoral-vote.com". Retrieved November 27, 2008.

[1] "CNN Election Center 2008 - District of Columbia Results". Retrieved November 27, 2008.

[2] "Electoral-vote.com". Retrieved November 27, 2008.

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