Editing Nevada County, California (section)

== Politics ==

===Voter registration===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
| colspan="2" | 98,392
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 – Report of Registration] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727173649/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 61,557
| 62.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 20,298
| 33.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 23,315
| 37.9%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic–Republican spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| <span style="color: #800080;">'''-3,017'''</span>
| <span style="color: #800080;">'''-4.9%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;American Independent<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 2,208
| 3.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1,421
| 2.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 585
| 1.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 140
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans Elect<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1
| 0.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 140
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 13,449
| 21.8%
|}

==== Cities by population and voter registration ====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Cities by population and voter registration
|-
! City
! data-sort-type="number" | Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS"/><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | D–R spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
|-
| [[Grass Valley, California|Grass Valley]] || 12,793 || 50.4% || 36.9% || 33.4% || <span style="color: #800080;">'''+3.5%'''</span> || 10.7% || 22.7%
|-
| [[Nevada City, California|Nevada City]] || 3,081 || 67.2% || 44.5% || 22.1% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+22.4%'''</span> || 13.3% || 23.7%
|-
| [[Truckee, California|Truckee]] || 16,009 || 52.8% || 39.4% || 24.4% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+15.0%'''</span> || 11.4% || 28.8%
|-
| Unincorporated Nevada County || 66,509 || 67.0% || 30.6% || 41.8% || <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-11.2%'''</span>|| 5.8% || 20.3%
|}

=== Overview ===
According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of February 10, 2019, Nevada County has 78,736 registered voters. Of those, 24,677 (36%) are registered [[California Democratic Party|Democrats]], 22,252 (32.3%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], 9,426 (13.76%) are registered to another party, and 7,845 (11.5%) have [[Decline to State|declined to state]] a political party.<ref>[https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/county.pdf CA Secretary of State – Report of Registration – February 10, 2019]</ref> In both 2000 and 2004, [[George W. Bush]] won a majority of the votes in the county. In 2008, [[Barack Obama]] carried the county with a 51.5%–46.2% margin. [[United States presidential election in California, 2008|2008]] marked the first time Nevada County went for a Democrat since [[Lyndon Johnson]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1964|1964]]. In [[United States presidential election in California, 2012|2012]], Obama lost by a narrow margin to [[Mitt Romney]], turning the county red once again, only for [[Hillary Clinton]] to win it back in [[United States presidential election in California, 2016|2016]] over [[Donald Trump]]. [[Joe Biden]] won the county in 2020 with the largest share of votes for a presidential candidate in recent elections, continuing its Democratic shift. [[Kamala Harris]] won the county in 2024, though with a slightly smaller percentage of the vote compared to Biden.

{{PresHead|place=Nevada County, California|source=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref group=note>This total comprised 1,381 votes for [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (who was official Republican nominee in California), 648 votes for [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene V. Debs]] and 111 votes for [[Prohibition Party]] nominee [[Eugene W. Chafin]].</ref>}}
<!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|26,177|33,784|2,183|California}}  
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|26,779|36,359|2,064|California}}  
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|23,365|26,053|5,517|California}}  
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|24,986|24,663|2,027|California}}  
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|25,663|28,617|1,367|California}}  
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|28,790|24,220|910|California}}  
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|25,998|17,670|3,811|California}}  
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|21,784|15,369|6,066|California}}  
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|17,343|15,433|11,425|California}}  
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|21,383|14,980|660|California}}  
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|19,809|11,198|761|California}}  
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|15,207|7,605|3,449|California}}  
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|8,170|7,926|785|California}}  
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|8,004|5,693|941|California}}  
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|6,061|4,607|1,126|California}}  
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,899|6,397|22|California}}  
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|5,419|4,633|89|California}}  
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,475|3,667|31|California}}  
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|6,819|3,735|94|California}}  
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|3,917|3,914|495|California}}  
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,648|3,266|47|California}}  
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,863|5,782|114|California}}  
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,913|5,128|90|California}}  
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,842|3,544|210|California}}  
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,173|1,959|47|California}}  
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive|1,513|307|1,763|California}}  
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,055|747|361|California}}  
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,586|2,548|369|California}}  
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|23|1,851|2,140|California}}  
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,825|1,368|395|California}}  
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|2,249|1,167|414|California}}  
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,449|1,758|173|California}}  
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,985|2,360|90|California}}  
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|1,757|1,634|710|California}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|2,167|1,923|102|California}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|2,368|1,791|60|California}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|2,241|2,029|22|California}}

Nevada County is located in [[California's 3rd congressional district]] represented by {{Representative|cacd|3}} 

In the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]], Nevada County is in {{Representative|caad|1|fmt=adistrict}} and in the [[California State Senate|State Senate]], the county is in {{Representative|casd|1|fmt=sdistrict}}.

On November 4, 2008, Nevada County voted for [[California Proposition 8 (2008)|Proposition 8]], which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages by three votes, the narrowest margin of any county in the state.<ref>{{Cite web| title=Supplement to the Statement of Vote Statewide Summary by County for State Ballot Measures | url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-general/ssov/10-ballot-measures-statewide-summary-by-county.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007030014/http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-general/ssov/10-ballot-measures-statewide-summary-by-county.pdf | archive-date=2015-10-07}}</ref>