Editing Weston County, Wyoming (section)

==Politics==
Like all of the High Plains, and almost all of Wyoming, Weston County is overwhelmingly Republican. Since Wyoming statehood in 1890, it has been carried by a Democrat just three times. Woodrow Wilson carried the county in 1912 as a result of a split between the conservative incumbent [[William Howard Taft]] and [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] ex-President [[Theodore Roosevelt]], whilst in his two 1930s landslides Franklin D. Roosevelt became the other Democrat to win Weston County, although he defeated Republican [[Alf Landon]] in 1936 by just 109 votes.

Subsequent to [[Lyndon Johnson]] losing the county to [[Barry Goldwater]] by just fifty-four votes in 1964, no Democrat has passed 35 percent of Weston County's vote. Indeed, [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996 was the last Democratic to pass twenty percent.

{{PresHead|place=Weston County, Wyoming|source=<ref>Dave Leip's US Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/statesub.php?year=2016&fips=56045&f=0&off=0&elect=0 2016 Presidential General Election Results – Weston County, WY] (and earlier years)</ref>}}
<!--{{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote No.|Dem. vote No.|Third party vote No.|State}}-->
{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,069|378|65|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|3,107|360|75|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,033|299|194|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|2,821|422|116|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|2,618|658|117|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,739|580|73|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|2,521|449|90|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,763|871|540|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|1,465|727|835|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,988|699|37|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|2,614|482|31|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|2,219|584|167|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|1,770|934|10|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,063|520|46|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,497|610|266|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,473|1,419|0|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|1,743|1,201|0|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,837|1,031|0|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,931|839|4|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|962|822|4|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,097|754|0|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|1,292|985|7|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,084|1,193|18|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|840|1,459|47|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,127|688|24|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|794|317|640|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,073|463|27|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|791|734|61|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|449|459|397|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|723|478|36|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|810|221|12|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|548|338|0|Wyoming}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|451|319|6|Wyoming}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|294|0|220|Wyoming}}

The [[Wyoming Department of Corrections]] [[Wyoming Honor Conservation Camp & Boot Camp]] is located in [[Newcastle, Wyoming|Newcastle]].<ref>[http://doc.state.wy.us/doc/contactinstitutions.html Contact Institutions]. [[Wyoming Department of Corrections]]. Retrieved August 22, 2010.</ref><ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/MapItDrawServlet?geo_id=16000US5656215&_bucket_id=50&tree_id=420&context=saff&_lang=en&_sse=on Newcastle city, Wyoming]{{dead link|date=March 2018|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes }}. US Census Bureau. Retrieved December 12, 2010.</ref> The facility was operated by the [[Wyoming Board of Charities and Reform]] until that agency was dissolved as a result of a state constitutional amendment passed in November 1990.<ref>[http://doc.state.wy.us/about/index.html About the Department of Corrections]. Wyoming Department of Corrections. Retrieved August 22, 2010.</ref>