Editing Swain County, North Carolina (section)

===Politics===
Swain has voted Republican the last six Presidential elections, but historically has been a swing county, with no candidate from either major party obtaining under 37 percent of the county's vote between 1976 and 2012, and no margin larger than twelve percentage points occurring in any election between 1984 and 2012. In 2016 [[Donald Trump]] won the county by twenty-three percentage points with the typical strong anti-Democratic swing of most counties in [[Appalachia]], though his margin decreased in the 2020 election. Swain was solidly Democratic during the Third Party System, but the [[Populist movement (United States, 19th Century)|Populist movement]] dramatically increased the success of progressive Republicans between 1896 and 1928. However, the victory in the county of [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] candidate [[Theodore Roosevelt]] in 1912 and subsequent dominance of liberal Democrats like [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and [[Adlai Stevenson II|Adlai Stevenson]] suggest that the county's voters were drawn more to the relatively progressive agendas of these candidates than they were to any party label.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|4,311|2,643|98|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,161|2,780|127|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,565|2,196|363|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|2,976|2,618|134|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|2,900|2,806|92|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,593|2,419|32|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|2,224|2,097|49|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,444|1,869|409|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,640|2,117|573|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,795|1,821|9|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|2,012|2,000|10|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,457|1,987|76|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,608|2,151|12|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,052|1,101|31|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,494|1,227|537|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,534|2,294|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|2,112|2,171|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,026|1,794|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,680|1,949|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,389|1,908|70|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,505|2,110|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,425|2,422|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,084|2,619|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,893|2,412|19|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,484|1,723|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,178|1,769|24|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,239|1,434|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,128|829|0|North Carolina}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|220|766|858|North Carolina}}