Editing Hancock County, Tennessee (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|2,558|334|16|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,372|362|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,843|322|66|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,527|475|44|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|1,588|604|49|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,756|777|18|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,343|690|42|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,259|760|135|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|1,274|1,000|175|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,303|737|42|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,491|619|24|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,734|704|49|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|1,309|764|17|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,813|393|16|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,489|318|236|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,517|687|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,107|438|7|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,939|350|39|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,830|458|14|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,598|416|51|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,929|431|4|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|1,673|1,014|14|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|1,673|960|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|1,089|551|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,039|216|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,028|305|7|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,740|384|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,229|386|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|659|427|84|Tennessee}}

Like all of [[Southern Unionist|Unionist]] East Tennessee, Hancock County has been overwhelmingly Republican since [[American Civil War|the Civil War]]. Since the Republican Party first contested the state in 1868, every official Republican nominee has gained an absolute majority of Hancock County's vote, even [[William Howard Taft]] during 1912 when the GOP was bitterly divided. The only post-Civil War Democratic presidential nominee to even reach forty percent of Hancock County's vote has been [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992, when he was aided by the local popularity of Senator [[Al Gore]], a [[Smith County, Tennessee|Smith County]] native.