Editing Carbon County, Utah (section)

==Politics and government==
Carbon County historically was the base of Democratic Party support in strongly Republican Utah with its sizable unionized mining population. In 1964, [[Lyndon Johnson]] carried 72.7% of votes in the county. Notably, however, Ronald Reagan won just three votes more than did Jimmy Carter [[1980 United States presidential election in Utah|in 1980]]. Nonetheless, it voted for [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 and 1996 by wide margins. At the state level, it was no less Democratic; in the 1992 gubernatorial election, it was one of two counties (the other being Summit County) that voted for Democrat Stewart Hanson over Republican [[Mike Leavitt|Michael Leavitt]].

Since the turn of the millennium, however, Carbon County has trended Republican. It voted for [[George W. Bush]] in 2000 and 2004 while voting for the Democratic gubernatorial candidates. In 2008, John McCain won Carbon County with 52.60% of the vote, versus 44.59% for Barack Obama, making him the last Democratic nominee to win more than forty percent of the county's vote. In 2012, the county's Democratic vote fell further as [[Mitt Romney]] carried 67.3% over Obama's 30.1%. In 2016, despite Utah's strong swing against the Republicans due to the presence of conservative independent Evan McMullin, Carbon County was the only county in the state to swing more Republican, as [[Donald Trump]] won 66% to [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 21.5% percent. In 2020, Trump again carried the county with the largest percentage (71.4%) of any Republican to date. Despite its rightward shift, Carbon County supported [[2018 Utah Proposition 4]], a ballot measure to create an [[independent redistricting commission]] in the state.

{| class="wikitable"
|+State elected offices
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom;" |Position
!District
! style="text-align:center;" |Name
! valign="bottom" |Affiliation
! style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center;" |First elected
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |&nbsp;
|[[Utah Senate|Senate]]
|27
| style="text-align:center;" |[[David Hinkins]]
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" |2008<ref>{{Cite web|title=Senator Hinkins Utah Senate|url=https://senate.utah.gov/sen/HINKIDP/|access-date=November 16, 2021|website=senate.utah.gov}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |&nbsp;
|[[Utah House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]
|69
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Christine Watkins]]
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" |2016<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rep. Watkins, Christine F.|url=https://house.utah.gov/rep/WATKICF/|access-date=November 17, 2021|website=Utah House of Representatives|language=en-US|archive-date=November 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117180745/https://house.utah.gov/rep/WATKICF/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color:lightgrey" |&nbsp;
|Board of Education
|14
| style="text-align:center;" |Mark Huntsman
| style="text-align:center;" |Nonpartisan
| style="text-align:center;" |2014<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mark Huntsman|url=https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/markhuntsman|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=www.schools.utah.gov|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115183003/https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/markhuntsman|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|}

{{PresHead|place=Carbon County, Utah|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Atlas of US Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 30, 2018}}</ref>}}
<!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
{{PresRow|2024|Republican|6,719|2,525|283|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|6,693|2,392|335|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,275|1,717|1,007|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,090|2,275|202|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,091|3,468|263|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,950|3,415|143|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,758|3,298|328|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,343|4,172|1,067|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,038|4,480|2,299|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|3,019|5,521|63|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,393|4,357|68|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,320|4,317|426|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,360|5,157|166|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,956|3,335|147|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|2,618|4,344|277|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,130|5,672|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|2,953|6,039|14|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,507|4,460|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|3,770|5,790|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,704|6,397|259|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,318|5,364|14|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,242|5,180|34|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,348|5,040|122|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,655|4,239|226|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|2,184|2,954|50|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,878|1,528|1,590|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,675|1,559|326|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,301|1,478|152|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|771|514|892|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,023|581|106|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,224|508|140|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|748|621|16|Utah}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Democratic|85|663|0|Utah}}
Notes:
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{{stack|[[File:Carbon County Utah incorporated and unincorporated areas.svg|thumb|Map of Carbon County municipalities and CDPs]]}}