Riding profile

WA-2

US House district — WA · Mixed · us wa

The question

WA-2: a safe seat for the Democrats?

Editorial read

WA-2, a mixed riding in WA, elected a member with the Democrats in the previous cycle, with a 28-point margin. The Vote-Scope model projects the Democrats ahead at 67% vote share, against 33% for the Republicans, and the probability of a close race is negligible.

Sitting member

LARSEN, RICK

Sits with Democrat

Who's running

The candidates

Declared and on-ballot candidates for the upcoming election.

  • Democrat Incumbent

    Larsen, Rick

Current forecast

Democrat

Safe

Probability
100%
Mean margin (pts)
33.6
P(close race)
0%

Projected vote share

Projection by party

  • Democrat 66.8%
  • Republican 33.2%

In context

How this riding stacks up

Democrat Republican
HereWA-2 66.8%33.2%
National averageUnited States 51.9% +14.9 46.6% −13.4

Nationwide averages computed across the 435 riding-level projections (unweighted mean).

Projection track

How the projection has moved

Previous election · US HOUSE_2024

Won by
Democrat
Margin
28.0 pts
Margin shift vs current projection
+5.6 pts
Last model run
Cycle
us_house_2026