Editing Mitchell County, North Carolina (section)

==Law and government==
Mitchell County is a member of the regional [[Councils of governments in North Carolina|High Country Council of Governments]].

=== Politics ===
Owing to its [[American Civil War|Civil War]]-era [[Southern Unionist|Unionist]] sympathies, along with its rural character, Mitchell has continuously been an overwhelmingly [[North Carolina Republican Party|Republican]] county, even during the "[[Solid South]]" Democratic era. No [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential candidate has carried Mitchell County since [[Samuel J. Tilden]] in 1876. Since Tilden's win, every Republican candidate has obtained at least sixty percent of the county's vote, with the solitary exception of the 1912 election when the party was divided between the two candidacies of [[William Howard Taft]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]], the latter of whom carried the county.

As of October 2022, 58 percent of active voters in Mitchell County are registered Republicans—the highest such rate statewide—while Democrats have their lowest county registration rate.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.ncdemography.org/2022/10/26/who-are-north-carolinas-republican-voters-a-2022-update/| title = Who are North Carolina's Republican Voters? A 2022 Update| last = Gong| first = Phillip Joonbae| date = October 26, 2022| website = Carolina Demography| publisher = University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill| access-date = December 18, 2022| archive-date = December 18, 2022| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20221218210114/https://www.ncdemography.org/2022/10/26/who-are-north-carolinas-republican-voters-a-2022-update/| url-status = live}}</ref>

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|6,843|1,915|84|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|7,090|1,867|84|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|6,282|1,596|218|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,806|1,838|121|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,499|2,238|109|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|5,686|2,080|32|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|4,984|1,535|81|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,874|1,496|576|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|4,405|1,727|883|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,620|1,377|17|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,737|1,286|11|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,322|1,765|183|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|3,728|2,031|21|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,240|800|41|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,778|819|603|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,263|1,736|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,831|1,174|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,269|1,069|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,009|1,236|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,908|818|83|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|3,192|1,024|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,290|1,450|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|3,380|1,687|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|3,798|1,773|9|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,436|827|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,540|689|8|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,153|697|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,298|462|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|203|385|716|North Carolina}}

====2016 presidential primaries====
In the 2016 Republican Primary in Mitchell County, Donald Trump received 1,775 votes (or 46.8 percent of the total votes) followed by Ted Cruz who came in second with 1,188 votes (or 31.3% of the total votes). In the 2016 Democratic Primary, Bernie Sanders received 450 votes (57.9% of the total) whereas Hillary Clinton only won 314 votes (40.4% of the total).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/primaries/north-carolina|title=North Carolina Primary Election Results 2016|date=September 29, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 16, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 20, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240920043432/https://www.nytimes.com/elections/2016/results/primaries/north-carolina|url-status=live}}</ref>  In the general election Donald Trump received 6,282 votes (or 77.6% of the total vote) whereas Hillary Clinton only received 1,596 votes (19.7% of the vote) and Libertarian Candidate Gary Johnson only received 138 votes (1.7% of total votes in the county).<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/north-carolina|title=North Carolina Election Results 2016|date=August 1, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 16, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 5, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705210333/https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/north-carolina|url-status=live}}</ref>