Editing Kalawao County, Hawaii (section)

==Politics==
{{PresHead|place=Kalawao County, Hawaii|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/ |access-date=May 26, 2017 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|1|23|0|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|1|14|5|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|2|25|0|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|6|24|1|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|14|26|0|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|11|30|4|Hawaii}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|13|46|4|Hawaii}}
{{PresFoot|1992|Democratic|24|48|3|Hawaii}}

Like the rest of the state, Kalawao County is a stronghold for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. It was the only county in the United States where the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate in the [[2016 United States presidential election]], [[Donald Trump]], finished in third by only getting one vote; 70% of Kalawao's voters chose Democratic nominee [[Hillary Clinton]], and 25% of Kalawao voters cast their ballots for [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] candidate [[Jill Stein]], making it Stein's strongest county nationwide in terms of vote percentage.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statewide Precinct Detail |url=http://files.hawaii.gov/elections/files/results/2016/general/precinct.pdf |access-date=March 13, 2020 |publisher=State of Hawaii Office of Elections}}</ref> In 2020 [[Joe Biden]] improved on Clinton's 2016 performance by over 25% as the Greens declined to zero votes, giving Biden 96% of the vote, which was his strongest performance in any county in the United States. However, many people in Kalawao County are also [[Social conservatism in the United States|socially conservative]], with this county being the only one in the state to vote against [[2024 Hawaii Amendment 1]], which repealed a state constitutional amendment that allowed Hawaii's legislature to outlaw [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{cite web |title=GENERAL ELECTION 2024 - State of Hawaii - Statewide Precinct Report |url=https://elections.hawaii.gov/wp-content/results/precinct.pdf |access-date=2025-04-01}}</ref>