Editing Gilliam County, Oregon (section)

==Politics==
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Though Gilliam County is located in central Oregon, politically it falls in line with the eastern side of the state. The majority of registered voters who are part of a [[political party]] in Gilliam County, as well as most counties in eastern Oregon, are members of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]].<ref name="sos.oregon.gov">[http://records.sos.state.or.us/ORSOSWebDrawer/Recordpdf/6812402 "Voter registration by county: March 2009"], April 10, 2009 ([[Portable Document File|PDF]]). Elections Division. Retrieved April 20, 2009.</ref> The last time a Democrat carried a clear majority of the votes in Gilliam was in 1964 with [[Lyndon Johnson]], though [[Bill Clinton]] was able to win it by a plurality in 1996 and had lost it by just three votes in 1992. In the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]], 58.36% of Gilliam County voters voted for Republican [[John McCain]], while 38.74% voted for [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Barack Obama]] and 2.88% of voters either voted for a [[Third party (politics)|Third Party]] candidate or [[write-in candidate|wrote in a candidate]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2011}} These numbers show a small but clear shift towards the Democratic candidate when compared to the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004 presidential election]], in which 66.3% of Gilliam Country voters voted for [[George W. Bush]], while 32.5% voted for [[John Kerry]], and 1.2% of voters either voted for a third-party candidate or [[write-in candidate|wrote in a candidate]].<ref>[http://www.city-data.com/county/Gilliam_County-OR.html "Gilliam County, Oregon"]. City-Data.Com. Retrieved April 21, 2009.</ref>

Despite its Republican lean, Gilliam County has still been willing to vote for Democrats at the state level; for example, Senator [[Ron Wyden]] won the county in the [[1998 United States Senate election in Oregon|1998]], [[2004 United States Senate election in Oregon|2004]], [[2010 United States Senate election in Oregon|2010]], and [[2016 United States Senate election in Oregon|2016]] elections. This streak, however, ended in [[2022 United States Senate election in Oregon|2022]] when Republican Jo Rae Perkins won most of the county's votes.

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