Editing Presidio County, Texas (section)

==Politics==
Presidio County is reliably Democratic, [[Ronald Reagan]] having been the last Republican candidate to get even forty percent of its vote. In [[2008 United States presidential election]], [[Barack Obama]] received 71.3% of the county's vote while [[John McCain]] received 28.0%.<ref>[https://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html?scp=1&sq=%22election%20map&st=cse The New York Times Electoral Map (Zoom in on Texas)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214824/http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/results/president/map.html?scp=1&sq=%22election%20map&st=cse|date=March 3, 2016}}</ref> In the [[2012 United States presidential election]] Barack Obama received 70.56% of the county's vote and [[Mitt Romney]] received 27.74%.<ref>{{cite web |title=2012 Presidential General Election Results - Presidio County, TX |url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2012&fips=48377&f=0&off=0&elect=0 |website=uselectionatlas.org |access-date=September 26, 2022}}</ref> In the [[2016 United States presidential election]], [[Hillary Clinton]] received 66.0% of the county's vote while [[Donald Trump]] received 29.5%.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/president|title=Presidential Election Results: Donald J. Trump Wins|date=August 9, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=July 29, 2018|language=en}}</ref> In [[2020 United States presidential election|the 2020 United States presidential election]], [[Joe Biden]] received 66.0% of the county's vote while Donald Trump received 32.5%.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Texas Election Results|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/03/us/elections/results-texas.html|access-date=June 8, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Despite a hard rightward shift in heavily Hispanic South Texas in 2024, in which many counties shifted right by over 10 points, Presidio remained strongly Democratic, with Donald Trump only increasing his vote share by 2 points, making Presidio the only county on the Mexican border where Democrats received over 60 percent.

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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|721|1,463|35|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|652|1,458|98|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|504|1,282|31|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|489|1,252|16|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|715|1,159|16|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|618|1,064|75|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|383|1,205|128|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|400|1,189|302|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|586|1,176|9|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|837|992|73|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|723|1,039|37|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|687|1,232|17|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|785|674|3|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|481|969|132|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|431|1,156|1|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|376|866|6|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|494|517|8|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|770|621|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|212|907|34|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|211|648|165|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|163|917|4|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|106|938|5|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|112|863|2|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|254|315|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|68|267|13|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|122|238|6|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|27|245|1|Texas}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|87|187|70|Texas}}