Editing Brooke County, West Virginia (section)

===Politics===
Abutting [[slave states and free states|free states]] Ohio and Pennsylvania, and with a largely German-American culture unlike any other part of antebellum Virginia,<ref>MacKenzie, Scott; ‘The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868’ (thesis), ''Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations''</ref> Brooke County and the rest of the Northern Panhandle were central to the vanguard who made West Virginia a new state during [[American Civil War|the Civil War]].<ref>Link, William A.; [https://textbooks.lib.wvu.edu/wvhistory/files/pdf/06_wv_history_reader_link.pdf ‘This Bastard New Virginia: Slavery, West Virginia Exceptionalism, and the Secession Crisis’]</ref> For the next six and a half decades, the county, aided by its association with Pennsylvania's powerful ironmonger-led Republican machines, voted solidly Republican to the point of supporting [[William Howard Taft]] during the disastrously divided 1912 election. From the [[New Deal]] until [[presidency of Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]], however, powerful unionization meant that Brooke County turned from solidly Republican to solidly Democratic except when the Democrats nominated the liberal [[George McGovern]] in 1972. Like all of West Virginia, since 2000 a combination of declining unionization<ref>Schwartzman, Gabe; [http://www.dailyyonder.com/how-coalfields-went-gop/2015/01/13/7668/ ‘How Central Appalachia Went Right’]; ''Daily Yonder'', January 13, 2015</ref> and differences with the Democratic Party's liberal views on social issues<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> has produced a dramatic swing to the Republican Party.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|6,986|2,621|175|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|7,545|2,947|164|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|6,625|2,568|503|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,060|4,005|263|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,961|4,717|179|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|5,189|5,493|91|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|4,195|4,678|532|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,741|5,338|1,421|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,582|5,693|2,140|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|4,006|6,258|42|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|4,819|6,636|43|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|4,622|6,430|743|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|4,792|8,197|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|7,544|5,226|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|4,191|7,506|1,444|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,364|9,834|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|5,754|7,838|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|5,944|7,072|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|5,073|7,591|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|3,718|6,680|114|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|3,588|5,726|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|4,004|6,416|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|3,485|5,955|55|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|4,010|4,919|277|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,277|2,419|48|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,858|2,037|606|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,060|2,129|146|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,422|1,261|120|West Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|972|850|697|West Virginia}}