Editing Palo Alto County, Iowa (section)

==Politics==
Between 1896 and 2008, Palo Alto County was a very reliable bellwether county, backing the nationwide winner in every election except for 1984 and 1988, when a farm crisis caused a loss of Republican support in Iowa amidst an otherwise national landslide for the party in both elections. More recent elections have significantly favored Republicans, as in 2016, [[Donald Trump]] became the first nominee of any party to capture at least 65% of the county's vote since [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in his national landslide of 1964. Trump's margin of victory of nearly 36% was the largest in the county since [[Warren G. Harding]] in 1920. Trump improved on his first performance in 2020, obtaining almost 68% of the vote in Palo Alto County and grew his margin of victory to over 37%. It was the best vote share for any candidate in the county since Harding a century earlier. Trump did even better again in 2024, taking nearly 72% of the vote and setting a record in Palo Alto County for the largest percentage of the vote ever obtained by a Republican candidate.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,576|1,338|68|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|3,370|1,519|69|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,081|1,398|224|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|2,660|2,139|88|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|2,294|2,428|86|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,674|2,482|35|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|2,341|2,326|156|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,817|2,371|515|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,789|2,374|1,216|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|2,041|3,377|45|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|2,715|3,018|77|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,025|2,463|480|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,623|3,182|99|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,141|2,845|80|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,114|2,874|235|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,206|4,441|0|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|3,551|3,695|3|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,795|3,624|2|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,595|2,993|9|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,594|3,858|149|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,772|3,726|35|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|3,322|4,482|18|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,613|4,515|205|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,378|4,094|96|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,463|2,843|49|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,943|593|2,411|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,904|1,467|95|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,594|1,630|63|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|953|1,274|918|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,639|1,340|124|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,999|1,081|77|Iowa}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,908|1,477|55|Iowa}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Republican|1,595|1,547|48|Iowa}}