How your neighborhood voted in governor's race

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Breakdown of voting by precinct. Red for Rob McKenna, blue for Jay Inslee. Orange where the candidates tied. Green is where no votes were cast or the Snohomish County auditor held back data to ensure privacy in small precincts. Votes were counted, but the data were not released. CLICK TO ENLARGE

By Scott North

The vote in Snohomish County during the Nov. 6 Washington gubernatorial contest demonstrates a couple of things.

First, this place isn't King County, where governor-elect Jay Inslee, the Democratic candidate, got roughly two votes for every one that went to Republican Rob McKenna. In Snohomish County, McKenna was victorious in about half of the county's cities and towns and much of the unincorporated area east and north of Everett. With most of the numbers crunched, he trailed Inslee by less than 2 percent, or roughly 5,500 votes out of nearly 300,000 counted.

But where Inslee did well explains his victory. As the data we mapped demonstrate, the governor elect carried this county because he snagged the most votes in the places where the most people live, from Everett south to the county line.

Look at the attached map. That band of blue running through the county's southwest quarter is the local equivalent of Florida, Texas and California combined. Getting the south county vote often carries the day for Democrats in local elections -- no matter how much of the rest of the map fills up with red.

That said, McKenna clearly had a lot of support here, much of it deep. He won in 344 of the county's 756 precincts and tied Inslee in at least a dozen more. Contrast that result with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who carried 134 precincts, data show.

You can see how the votes broke for Inslee and McKenna in the table below. Meanwhile, you can check out how your neighborhood voted in the gubernatorial race, the presidential contest, and the votes on gay marriage and legalizing pot by searching the database we prepared here:

First, look up your precinct

Unless you are a political wonk, you may not know which one you're in. Click here to find it from the Snohomish County website. (Opens in a new window.) Mobile users, click here.

... then use the form below to find out how your precinct voted:

Note: Data is available for all but a handful of the county's 756 precincts. The county holds back results in some small precincts to protect voter privacy. Data provided by the Snohomish County auditor's office.

City	Registered	Inslee	McKenna	Write_In	Total votes	% Inslee	% McKenna	Inslee difference
Arlington	9867	2914	3679	25	6618	44%	56%	-765
Bothell	10288	3867	3709	20	7596	51%	49%	158
Brier	4518	1834	1574	7	3415	54%	46%	260
Darrington	715	229	219	5	453	51%	48%	10
Edmonds	28630	12447	9510	28	21985	57%	43%	2937
Everett	49988	19024	14220	121	33365	57%	43%	4804
Gold Bar	1095	349	350	5	704	50%	50%	-1
Granite Falls	1855	591	536	2	1129	52%	47%	55
Index	106	66	24	1	91	73%	26%	42
Lake Stevens	16063	5227	5578	29	10834	48%	51%	-351
Lynnwood	18127	7657	5096	38	12791	60%	40%	2561
Marysville	33400	10884	11673	92	22649	48%	52%	-789
Mill Creek	11330	3913	4607	17	8537	46%	54%	-694
Monroe	7321	2401	2929	11	5341	45%	55%	-528
Mountlake Terrace	11389	5077	2852	27	7956	64%	36%	2225
Mukilteo	13111	5028	4809	16	9853	51%	49%	219
Snohomish	5476	1945	1858	16	3819	51%	49%	87
Stanwood	3541	1056	1444	8	2508	42%	58%	-388
Sultan	2383	690	885	11	1586	44%	56%	-195
Woodway	977	319	458	2	779	41%	59%	-139
Unincorporated East	58932	18975	24053	114	43142	44%	56%	-5078
Unincorporated North	43043	13397	16724	101	30222	44%	55%	-3327
Unincorporated South	83349	31923	27448	147	59518	54%	46%	4475
Too small to detail		17	30	0	47	36%	64%	-13
Total	415504	149830	144265	843	294938	51%	49%	5565