Pacific States

States in the U.S. Census Bureau's Pacific division

The Pacific States form one of the nine geographic divisions within the United States that are officially recognized by that country's census bureau.^[1] There are five states in this division – Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington – and, as its name suggests, they all have coastlines on the Pacific Ocean (and are the only American states that border that ocean). The Pacific States division is one of two divisions that are located within the United States Census Bureau's Western region; the other Western division is the Mountain States.

Despite being slotted into the same region by the Census Bureau, the Pacific and Mountain divisions are vastly different from one another in many vital respects, most notably in the arena of politics; while nearly all of the Mountain states are regarded as being conservative "red states", four out of five of the Pacific states (all except Alaska) are clearly counted among the liberal "blue states."

In presidential elections

Parties

Democratic

Republican

Progressive

• Bold denotes election winner

Presidential electoral votes in the Pacific States since 1852

Year	Alaska	California	Hawaii	Oregon	Washington
1852	No election	Pierce	No election	No election	No election
1856	No election	Buchanan	No election	No election	No election
1860	No election	Lincoln	No election	Lincoln	No election
1864	No election	Lincoln	No election	Lincoln	No election
1868	No election	Grant	No election	Seymour	No election
1872	No election	Grant	No election	Grant	No election
1876	No election	Hayes	No election	Hayes	No election
1880	No election	Hancock	No election	Garfield	No election
1884	No election	Blaine	No election	Blaine	No election
1888	No election	Harrison	No election	Harrison	No election
1892	No election	Cleveland	No election	Harrison	Harrison
1896	No election	McKinley	No election	McKinley	Bryan
1900	No election	McKinley	No election	McKinley	McKinley
1904	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1908	No election	Taft	No election	Taft	Taft
1912	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Wilson	Roosevelt
1916	No election	Wilson	No election	Hughes	Wilson
1920	No election	Harding	No election	Harding	Harding
1924	No election	Coolidge	No election	Coolidge	Coolidge
1928	No election	Hoover	No election	Hoover	Hoover
1932	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1936	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1940	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1944	No election	Roosevelt	No election	Roosevelt	Roosevelt
1948	No election	Truman	No election	Dewey	Truman
1952	No election	Eisenhower	No election	Eisenhower	Eisenhower
1956	No election	Eisenhower	No election	Eisenhower	Eisenhower
1960	Nixon	Nixon	Kennedy	Nixon	Nixon
1964	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson	Johnson
1968	Nixon	Nixon	Humphrey	Nixon	Humphrey
1972	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon	Nixon
1976	Ford	Ford	Carter	Ford	Ford
1980	Reagan	Reagan	Carter	Reagan	Reagan
1984	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan	Reagan
1988	Bush	Bush	Dukakis	Dukakis	Dukakis
1992	Bush	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton
1996	Dole	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton	Clinton
2000	Bush	Gore	Gore	Gore	Gore
2004	Bush	Kerry	Kerry	Kerry	Kerry
2008	McCain	Obama	Obama	Obama	Obama
2012	Romney	Obama	Obama	Obama	Obama
Year	Alaska	California	Hawaii	Oregon	Washington

See also

• History of the West Coast of North America

References

1. "Geographic Terms and Concepts - Census Divisions and Census Regions". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 29, 2012.

• Pacific Division Labor Statistics Bureau of Labor Statistics