Editing Wetzel County, West Virginia (section)

==Politics==
Wetzel County was a rarity among northern West Virginia counties in supporting secession at [[Virginia Secession Convention of 1861|the Virginia Secession Convention]],<ref>[http://www.virginiamemory.com/docs/votes_on_secession.pdf?_ga=1.136899061.456866595.1437301396 ‘How Virginia Convention Delegates Voted on Secession, April 4 and April 17, 1861, and Whether They Signed a Copy of the Ordinance of Secession’]</ref> and it reliably supported Democratic presidential candidates for the next ninety years.<ref name="Geography">Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 334-337 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> The first Republican to carry Wetzel County was [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1928 due to anti-Catholicism, but the county afterwards stayed Democratic until 1952.<ref name="Geography" /> Since that time Wetzel County has followed the politics of West Virginia: a Democratic-leaning state up to the Clinton Era, after which the Democratic Party's consistent shift to social-liberal positions and support of green policies – an antithesis to the region's traditional economy – have caused Wetzel County to trend rapidly toward the Republican Party.
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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,993|1,539|137|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,519|1,359|434|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,473|2,217|185|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,342|2,942|170|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,656|3,330|52|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,239|2,849|200|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,037|3,209|1,031|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,271|3,753|1,573|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|3,381|3,928|41|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,626|3,549|32|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|3,588|4,035|392|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,793|5,042|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,046|3,276|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|4,122|4,038|789|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,215|6,239|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|5,149|4,338|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,024|3,809|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,476|4,375|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|3,326|4,477|26|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|3,604|4,335|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|4,443|5,590|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|3,770|6,463|29|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|3,351|6,118|78|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|4,428|4,052|59|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|3,458|4,998|276|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|3,619|4,103|82|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,910|2,797|77|West Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|1,092|2,710|896|West Virginia}}