Editing Middlesex County, Massachusetts (section)

==Politics==
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! colspan = 6 | Voter registration and party enrollment as of August 2024<ref name="Voters">{{cite web |title=The Commonwealth of Massachusetts |url=https://www.sec.state.ma.us/divisions/elections/download/research-and-statistics/enrolment_count_20240903.pdf |website=Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |access-date=October 11, 2024 |date=August 24, 2024}}</ref>
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| Unenrolled
| align = center | {{formatnum: 712,349}}
| align = center | {{Percentage |692,606 |1,108,860 |2}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| align = center | {{formatnum: 327,852}}
| align = center | {{Percentage |327,852 |1,127,675 |2}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| align = center | {{formatnum: 77,758}}
| align = center | {{Percentage |77,758 |1,127,675 |2}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Libertarian Party (United States)}}
| [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]]
| align = center | {{formatnum: 3,095}}
| align = center | {{Percentage |3,095 |1,127,675 |2}}
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent Party (United States)}}
| [[Third party (U.S. politics)|Other parties]]
| align = center | {{formatnum: 6,641}}
| align = center | {{Percentage |6,641 |1,127,675 |2}}
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! align = center | {{formatnum:1127675}}
! align = center | {{Percentage |100}}
|}
Prior to 1960, Middlesex County was a Republican Party stronghold, backing only two Democratic Party presidential candidates from 1876 to 1956. The 1960 election started a reverse trend, with the county becoming a Democratic stronghold. This has been even more apparent in recent years, with [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1988 being the last Republican presidential candidate to manage forty percent of the county's votes and [[Mitt Romney]] in 2012 being the last Republican presidential candidate to manage even thirty percent of the vote. In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] won 71% of the vote, the highest percent for any presidential candidate since 1964.
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{{PresHead|place=Middlesex County, Massachusetts|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=July 10, 2017|archive-date=March 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323225526/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|235,118|554,471|25,243|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|226,956|617,196|19,425|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|219,793|520,360|56,582|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|267,321|471,804|15,045|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|245,766|464,484|15,781|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|237,815|440,862|10,283|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|198,914|404,043|54,091|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|169,926|398,190|59,861|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|193,703|343,994|151,756|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|290,352|361,563|10,713|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|319,604|325,065|2,085|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|256,999|270,751|109,929|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|260,044|359,919|23,419|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|269,064|345,343|3,244|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|188,304|370,310|18,982|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|134,729|439,790|2,291|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|246,126|356,130|1,260|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|343,125|216,668|1,580|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|316,069|236,910|1,626|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|228,262|248,240|9,406|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|236,102|210,253|725|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|242,658|218,663|2,116|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|199,704|189,512|30,304|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|184,486|174,257|7,008|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|189,189|173,339|1,313|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|162,530|64,544|28,161|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|156,636|61,661|5,781|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|60,802|49,844|2,426|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|30,511|36,689|35,667|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|58,672|31,362|5,853|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|55,704|32,889|3,275|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|49,638|29,476|2,841|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|57,281|19,591|3,394|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|40,375|34,769|1,946|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|35,768|28,570|1,519|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|27,654|22,206|7,157|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|30,339|19,801|1,013|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1876|Republican|27,304|19,561|193|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1872|Republican|26,570|12,434|0|Massachusetts}}
{{PresRow|1868|Republican|24,694|12,454|0|Massachusetts}}
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