Editing Unicoi County, Tennessee (section)

==Politics==
Voters of Unicoi County, like most of eastern Tennessee, have been strongly affiliated with the Republican Party since before the Civil War, when it was a Unionist enclave. Since its founding, it has supported the Republican presidential candidate in all but one election ([[1912 United States presidential election in Tennessee|1912]], when it backed [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] campaign).

At the state level, Unicoi County has historically been slightly more receptive to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] candidates, generally when they win by landslides. It often supported Democratic candidates for governor in the [[Solid South]] era, when white conservatives largely were affiliated as Democrats. More recently, it backed Democrat [[Ned McWherter]] in the [[1986 Tennessee gubernatorial election|1986]] and [[1990 Tennessee gubernatorial election|1990]] gubernatorial elections and [[Phil Bredesen]] in [[2006 Tennessee gubernatorial election|2006]], when he won every county in the state.

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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|6,599|1,615|93|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,671|1,262|262|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,032|1,913|141|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,011|2,107|105|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|5,030|2,374|59|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,780|2,566|83|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,122|2,131|502|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,344|2,375|728|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,664|1,794|28|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,249|1,696|34|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,828|1,880|136|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|3,211|2,526|45|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,877|822|67|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,327|910|843|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,731|2,000|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,004|1,322|10|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,978|1,111|30|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,453|1,163|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,927|844|90|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,992|779|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|1,863|985|33|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|1,850|879|27|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|1,716|850|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,043|375|7|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,381|381|138|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,584|547|4|Tennessee}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|961|226|0|Tennessee}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|280|170|776|Tennessee}}