Analysis of Election Systems for Washington State

Washington State had 6,724,540 residents enumerated in the 2010 Census. Table 1 shows the demographic breakdown of the state by Total Population, Voting Age Population (VAP) and Citizen Voting Age Population (CVAP). We use the term POC (people of color) to refer to residents who are Hispanic or have selected a non-White race in the Census (or both). Other racial group names (Asian, White, etc) denote respondents who identied as non-Hispanic and selected a single racial category. In total the POC share of Washington CVAP is 22.72%. The distribution of POC residents across the state is shown in Figure 1. Breaking down the POC population further, Washington has two individual minority groups that make up more than 5% CVAP share: Hispanic/Latino residents (8.87% of VAP and 7.32% of CVAP) and Asian residents (7.27% of VAP and 6.55% of CVAP).