Editing Tillamook County, Oregon (section)

==Politics==
In its early history, Tillamook was a powerfully Republican county. It voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from Oregon statehood until 1928, even supporting [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912, when the party was divided.<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 284-285 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> Since [[Franklin Roosevelt]] became the first Democrat to carry the county in 1932, Tillamook has been a [[bellwether]] county in most Presidential elections, although it did vote for losing Democrats in 1968, 1980 and 1988. Tillamook County has remained quite competitive over the last half century. Since 1968, no candidate has received over 55 percent of the vote, with the highest being [[Michael Dukakis]] in 1988. From 1992 until 2016 it voted for the winning presidential candidate; that streak ended in 2020 with its vote for [[Donald Trump]] (however, Trump won the county with a reduced margin from 2016).<ref>{{citation |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Pivot_Counties_in_Oregon |title=Pivot Counties in Oregon |work=[[ballotpedia.org]] |access-date=2024-09-19 }}</ref> Trump would carry Tillamook County again in [[2024 United States presidential election in Oregon|2024]].

Tillamook County is also a relatively swingy county at the local level, generally following its federal trends of voting predominantly Democratic, with some exceptions. In recent years, it has swung back to Republicans, with John Kitzhaber being the last Democrat to win it in [[2014 Oregon gubernatorial election|2014]].

In 2019, Tillamook County passed a [[Second Amendment sanctuary|Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance]] to counter the more liberal gun laws of Oregon at-large, stating that any laws which restrict the right to own firearms "shall not be enforced by Tillamook County agents."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tillamookcounty.gov/sites/default/files/fileattachments/clerk039s_office/page/69486/2nd_amendment_sanctuary_ordinance.pdf|title=Tillamook County State of Oregon Second Amendment Sanctuary Ordinance|date=2019|website=www.tillamookcounty.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2024-11-22}}</ref>

{{PresHead|place=Tillamook County, Oregon|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=April 11, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 369 votes, while Socialist [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 157 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 45 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|8,354|8,066|468|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|6,538|5,768|1,497|Oregon}}
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{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|5,757|7,072|468|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|7,003|6,750|198|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,775|5,762|839|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|3,884|5,775|1,673|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|3,359|5,040|3,085|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|4,297|5,529|244|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,267|4,988|53|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|4,123|4,521|1,259|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|4,033|4,456|378|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,120|3,544|380|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|3,261|3,609|421|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,318|5,246|9|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|3,935|4,098|11|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,306|3,684|0|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,931|3,401|30|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,952|3,128|206|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,477|2,634|75|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,516|2,786|36|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,380|2,781|422|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,722|2,726|307|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,570|1,204|76|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,201|795|723|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,664|828|245|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,547|1,175|150|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|496|411|571|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|641|253|172|Oregon}}
{{PresFoot|1904|Republican|729|136|184|Oregon}}