Who Are Edmonds Residents Supporting For President In 2020?

EDMONDS, WA — In honor of Gov. Jay Inslee hitting his goal of 130,000 donors Gov. Jay Inslee leaving the presidential race and Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's upcoming Seattle town hall on Sunday, we wanted to take a look at which 2020 candidates Puget Sound residents are backing with campaign donations.

For this analysis, we used Federal Elections Commission campaign finance data from Jan. 1 to June 30. We only looked at the 18 cities covered by Patch in Puget Sound. Not only did we look at how much money each candidate raked in, we also looked at how many donations they got — and how many of those were from one-time donors.

In general, Puget Sound — except for Inslee — is tracking with national polls in support for candidates. That means people like Bernie Sanders, Warren, and even Donald Trump are pretty popular. There were pockets of support for long-shot candidates like Marianne Williamson and Rep. Tim Ryan.

Here are some quick takeaways:

• We looked at over 14,000 individual donations totaling close to $3 million.
• In left-leaning Puget Sound, Donald Trump was among the top five highest-earning candidates in 16 of the cities we looked at.
• Trump was No. 1 in donations in five cities: Renton, Enumclaw, Sumner, Bonney Lake, and Puyallup.
• Inslee was a top-five earner in 15 cities, but he was the No. 1 earner in 10 cities, the best among the 2020 candidates.
• The biggest loser candidate in Puget Sound is probably former Maryland Congressman John Delaney: he got a low number of donations (7), but they were all from the same person.
• Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan got the lowest number of donations (1) and the least amount of money ($250).
• Andrew Yang, a former tech CEO, earned a lot of support in places like Bellevue, Seattle, and Redmond — where obviously a lot of tech jobs are located.

Here are the top five by total amount of money raised:

• Jay Inslee: $1,026,218.55
• Joe Biden: $401,317.83
• Elizabeth Warren: $261,172
• Pete Buttigieg: $250,160.58
• Bernie Sanders: $219,480.34

Here are the top five with the highest percentage of unique donors

• (Tie) Eric Swalwell, Michael Bennet: 100 percent unique
• William Weld: 80 percent unique
• Steve Bullock: 75.92 percent unique
• John Hickenlooper: 58.82 percent unique
• Seth Moulton: 55.55 percent unique

But none of those candidates — including Weld, who's running against Trump — really have a shot of winning the nomination. Bullock, the governor of Montana, has raised the most out of the bunch at only $33,000. So here are the top five front-runner Democrats with the highest number of individual donations. We're using the most recent CNN poll for candidates with 5 percent support or better.

• Joe Biden: 529 donations from 286 people (54.06% unique)
• Kamala Harris: 1,192 donations from 313 people (26.25% unique)
• Elizabeth Warren: 2,403 donations from 598 people (24.88% unique)
• Bernie Sanders: 3,467 donations from 740 people (21.34% unique)
• Pete Buttigieg: 3,114 donations from 453 people (14.54% unique)

And finally, here are those five candidates arranged by most donations including repeat donors.

• Bernie Sanders: 3,467 donations total
• Pete Buttigieg: 3,114 donations total
• Elizabeth Warren: 2,403 donations total
• Kamala Harris: 1,192 donations total
• Joe Biden: 529 donations total

Here's a look at how residents inside Edmonds only donated to 2020 candidates: