Editing Johnson County, Iowa (section)

==Politics==
Largely due to the presence of the [[University of Iowa]], Johnson County is considered the most liberal county in Iowa and a stronghold of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], and has always been among Iowa's most Democratic counties since the Civil War. It has been the strongest Democratic county in the state since [[United States presidential election in Iowa, 1984|1984]]. This trend predates the recent swing toward the Democrats in counties influenced by college towns. The last [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to win the county in a presidential election was [[Richard Nixon]] in 1960, and the last Republican to even get 40 percent of the county's vote was [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984. The last time the GOP won the county in a gubernatorial election was the [[1978 Iowa gubernatorial election]]. As a measure of how strongly Democratic the county has been, Democrats easily carried it even in the national Republican landslides of 1972, 1984 and 1988, and the county was the only county in Iowa to vote for Democrat [[Alton B. Parker]] over Republican [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in [[1904 United States presidential election in Iowa|1904]]. In 2020, Joe Biden received the highest percentage of the vote received by any Democrat in the county's history; indeed, by any candidate of any party.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential election of 1848 - Map by counties |url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1848.htm |access-date=April 27, 2022 |website=geoelections.free.fr}}</ref> In 2024, it was the only county to not vote for [[Donald Trump]] in [[2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses|the state's Republican presidential caucuses]]. [[Nikki Haley]] won the county by a single vote.<ref>{{Cite news |date=January 15, 2024 |title=Iowa Caucus Results |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/15/us/elections/results-iowa-caucus.html |access-date=January 31, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Iowa Caucus 2024 Live Election Results |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/iowa-president-results |access-date=January 16, 2024 |publisher=NBC News |language=en |archive-date=January 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240115235416/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-primary-elections/iowa-president-results |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="j858">{{cite web | last=Hansen | first=Ryan | title=Iowa Caucus: Nikki Haley narrowly defeats Trump in Johnson County | website=press-citizen.com | date=2024-01-16 | url=https://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2024/01/15/iowa-caucus-results-nikki-haley-donald-trump-johnson-county-iowa-city/72238563007/ | access-date=2024-11-14}}</ref>

Johnson County's Democratic bent is just as pronounced at the state level. It was the lone county to vote Democratic in statewide Republican landslides, such as Senator Chuck Grassley's re-elections in [[United States Senate election in Iowa, 2010|2010]] and [[United States Senate election in Iowa, 2016|2016]] or Governor Terry Branstad's re-election in [[Iowa gubernatorial election, 2014|2014]].

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|26,087|58,846|1,711|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|22,925|59,177|1,749|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|21,044|50,200|5,696|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|23,698|50,666|1,613|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|20,732|51,027|1,230|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|22,715|41,847|811|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|17,899|31,174|3,696|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|13,402|27,888|4,442|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|14,041|28,656|9,077|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|15,453|28,759|435|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|18,677|26,000|367|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|13,642|20,122|9,233|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|16,090|20,208|2,412|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|14,823|20,922|491|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|11,384|13,541|1,019|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|6,860|14,717|41|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|10,927|10,563|18|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|11,298|8,767|11|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|11,231|8,067|52|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|7,139|8,611|553|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|6,396|8,434|67|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|7,206|9,017|55|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|5,629|8,794|320|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|5,484|8,764|235|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|7,288|7,181|29|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|5,741|4,570|2,580|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,696|5,032|195|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,704|3,650|49|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,645|3,327|914|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|2,758|3,314|79|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|2,963|3,085|91|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|3,010|3,182|66|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|2,910|3,170|104|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|2,179|3,227|131|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|2,051|3,038|19|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|2,019|3,151|46|Iowa}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|2,400|2,766|180|Iowa}}