Editing Polk County, North Carolina (section)

==Government and politics==
{{PresHead|place=Polk County, North Carolina|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>}}
<!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->{{PresRow|2024|Republican|8,107|4,827|134|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|7,689|4,518|151|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|6,768|3,735|431|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|6,236|4,013|140|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,990|4,396|176|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|5,140|3,787|94|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,074|3,114|115|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,516|2,704|536|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,448|2,939|1,146|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,874|2,534|15|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,046|2,169|36|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,021|2,375|213|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,605|3,155|52|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,121|1,416|100|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,550|1,523|1,484|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,765|3,017|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,856|2,762|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,823|2,527|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|2,561|2,741|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,636|2,078|277|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,678|2,340|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,528|2,454|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,794|2,521|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,421|2,401|21|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,873|1,616|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|1,445|1,613|13|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|1,326|1,361|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|750|679|1|North Carolina}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|153|675|502|North Carolina}}

Polk County is notable as one of only two counties in the country that voted for [[Charles Evans Hughes|Charles Even Hughes]] in 1916 and for [[James M. Cox]] in 1920 the other one is [[Manistee County, Michigan]].

===2016 elections===
In the 2016 Republican Primary in Polk County, [[Donald Trump]] received 1,624 votes (or 46.2% of the total votes) followed by [[Ted Cruz]] who came in second with 1,135 votes (or 32.3% of the total votes). In the 2016 Democratic Primary, [[Bernie Sanders]] received 1,123 votes (48.7% of the total) whereas [[Hillary Clinton]] won 1,099 votes (47.7% 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 17, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>  In the general election Donald Trump received 6,768 votes (or 61.9% of the total vote) whereas Hillary Clinton received 3,735 votes (34.2% of the vote) and [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] candidate [[Gary Johnson]] received 272 votes (2.5% 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 17, 2018|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>