Washington votes entirely by mail. County auditors mail a ballot to every registered voter at least 18 days before Election Day, and voters send it back by mail (no stamp needed) or leave it at an official drop box. There is no early in-person voting in the usual sense, so this site tracks returned ballots, by the day the county received them. Washington has no party registration, so there is no party split here; age is the main breakdown the Secretary of State publishes.
Source: the Washington Secretary of State's daily "Ballot Return Statistics" dashboard (ballots received by county and day, ballot status, return method, and returns by age). Past cycles: the SOS's 2024 and 2022 general-election dashboards, which also carry the 2020 and 2018 generals. Registered voters: each dashboard's "voters in election" count and the SOS voter registration database (VRDB) summary of October 1, 2026.
Where 2026 stands
Cumulative ballots returned
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Every county against 2022 and 2024
Return rate by county
Who's returning ballots, per 100,000 registered voters
Women and men
Map: where ballots are coming back
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