Editing Upshur County, West Virginia (section)

==Politics==
Whereas most of West Virginia has seen a rapid and continuing shift to the Republican Party since the 1990s, Upshur County—though strongly Democratic during the [[Second Party System]]—has ever since statehood been a Republican stronghold due to its powerful [[Southern Unionist|Unionist]] sympathies from [[American Civil War|Civil War]] days, and the association of the Democratic Party with the “Slave Power” and creating a war the yeoman residents had no desire to fight.<ref>Denton, Lawrence M.; ''Unionists in Virginia: Politics, Secession and Their Plan to Prevent Civil War'', {{ISBN|1625852797}}</ref> The solitary post-Civil War Democrat to win the county has been Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and he won by only 168 votes. Since 1896, only two other Democrats—[[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976 and [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996—have topped forty percent in the county.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|7,633|2,033|193|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|7,771|2,256|196|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|7,005|1,766|527|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,939|2,158|201|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,911|2,925|135|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|6,191|3,034|68|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,165|2,770|188|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,325|3,052|1,070|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,505|3,161|1,587|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,813|3,065|16|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,951|2,468|47|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,751|2,867|481|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|4,789|3,513|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,449|1,795|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|4,565|2,319|427|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,606|3,774|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|5,123|2,590|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,707|2,081|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|5,938|2,234|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|5,068|2,323|28|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|5,332|2,026|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|6,086|2,862|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|5,745|3,163|26|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|5,077|3,147|68|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,277|1,683|57|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|4,930|1,952|137|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|4,936|1,418|42|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,553|1,019|68|West Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|835|895|1,767|West Virginia}}