Editing Deschutes County, Oregon (section)

==Politics==
Deschutes County has traditionally fallen politically more in line with the conservative [[Eastern Oregon|eastern side]] of [[Oregon]] than the liberal [[Western Oregon|western side]]. However, this has shifted in recent years, due in large part to the rapid growth and urbanization within the city of [[Bend, Oregon|Bend]]. By January 2021, a narrow plurality of registered voters in Deschutes County were registered with the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Secretary of State Election Statistics |url=https://sos.oregon.gov/elections/pages/electionsstatistics.aspx}}</ref> In addition, [[Joe Biden]] carried the county with 52.7% of the vote in the [[2020 United States presidential election in Oregon|2020 presidential election]] compared to 44.4% of the vote for [[Donald Trump]], thereby marking the first time a Democratic Party candidate won the county since 1992 and the first time a Democratic Party candidate received a majority of the vote in the county since 1964.

In [[2024 United States presidential election in Oregon|2024]], Deschutes County swung to the left, despite Oregon and the country swinging to the right. [[Kamala Harris]] received 53.47% of the vote, the highest vote share for a Democratic presidential nominee since 1964 in the county.

In 2008, the Democratic Party won the [[Oregon House of Representatives|Oregon House]] seat encompassing the city of Bend, becoming the only Democratic-controlled district east of the Cascades,<ref>[http://judystiegler4hd54.com/wordpress/?p=32] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007095329/http://judystiegler4hd54.com/wordpress/?p=32|date=October 7, 2011}}</ref> though the Republicans retook the seat in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jason Conger - Oregon State Representative, House District 54 |url=http://www.repjasonconger.com/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328062315/http://www.repjasonconger.com/ |archive-date=March 28, 2012 |access-date=August 6, 2012 |publisher=Repjasonconger.com}}</ref>  Republicans would hold the seat for the remainder of the decade until 2020, when Democrat [[Jason Kropf]] was elected to the State House and re-elected in 2022. In 2022, the 53rd District, including Redmond, elected Democrat [[Emerson Levy]] to the Oregon House. Portions of Deschutes County also fall into the 55th, 59th and 60th House Districts, respectively held by Republicans [[E. Werner Reschke]], [[Vikki Breese-Iverson]] and [[Mark Owens (Oregon politician)|Mark Owens]]. Deschutes County is also divvied up between the 27th, 28th and 30th Senate Districts in the Oregon Senate, respectively represented by Republicans [[Tim Knopp]], [[Dennis Linthicum]] and [[Lynn Findley]].

Deschutes County is currently one of 11 counties in Oregon in which therapeutic psilocybin is legal.

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|54,850|68,108|4,417|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|55,646|65,962|3,626|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|45,692|42,444|10,421|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|42,463|36,961|2,476|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|39,064|38,819|1,899|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|41,757|31,179|1,112|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|32,132|22,061|3,692|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|21,135|17,151|6,996|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|15,655|15,693|12,570|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|16,425|14,264|677|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|19,323|11,671|72|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|15,186|9,641|3,888|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|9,054|9,480|848|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|7,747|6,319|753|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|5,599|4,859|772|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,148|6,947|0|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|5,145|4,776|23|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,399|4,102|0|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|5,776|3,174|36|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|3,463|3,499|201|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,547|3,807|72|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,603|4,775|75|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,299|4,278|307|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,697|2,962|396|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,815|1,702|111|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,321|1,015|1,042|Oregon}}
{{PresFoot|1920|Republican|1,649|1,072|319|Oregon}}