Editing Grant County, West Virginia (section)

===Federal politics===
Grant County lies within [[West Virginia's 2nd congressional district]]. The current representative of the district is [[Riley Moore]] (R).

Politically, Grant County was historically a major outlier in West Virginia. While the rest of the state did not become a Republican bastion until the 21st century after having leaned heavily Democratic between the [[New Deal]] and [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton]]’s presidency, Grant County has always been among the most strongly Republican counties in the country. Since Grant County was created in 1866, no Democrat has managed to receive 40 percent of the county's vote in any Presidential election. The only Republican to ever lose Grant County has been [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912 when the GOP was divided and Progressive [[Theodore Roosevelt]] claimed the majority of the county's vote.

The county's Republican bent has held even in national Democratic landslides. [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] never tallied more than 26.8 percent of the vote in any of his four successful campaigns, and [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] only managed 37.8 percent in 1964. [[Jimmy Carter]] is the only other Democrat besides LBJ to have cracked the 30 percent barrier.

Notably, in 2016, 2020, and 2024, [[Donald Trump]] received the highest percentages of the vote ever cast for a presidential candidate in this county. He held Democratic candidates [[Hillary Clinton]], [[Joe Biden]], and [[Kamala Harris]] to 10%, 11%, and 10% of the vote, respectively.

{| class=wikitable
! colspan = 6 | Voter Registration and Party Enrollment of Grant County<ref>{{cite web |url= https://sos.wv.gov/elections/Documents/VoterRegistrationTotals/2023/Jul2023.pdf|title=West Virginia Voter Registration|author=<!--Not stated--> |date=July 31, 2023 |publisher=West Virginia Secretary of State|access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref>
|-
! colspan = 2 | Party
! Total
! Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
| [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 663
| style="text-align:center;" | 9.00%
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
| [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" | 5,086
| style="text-align:center;" | 69.05%
|-
| {{party color cell|Libertarian Party (United States)}}
| Independents, unaffiliated, and other
| style="text-align:center;" | 1,617
| style="text-align:center;" | 21.95%
|-
! colspan = 2 | Total
! style="text-align:center;" | 7,366
! style="text-align:center;" | 100.00%
|}

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|4,949|552|67|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,871|607|32|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,346|512|107|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,783|718|87|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,166|997|55|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,063|963|21|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,571|891|72|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,599|1,206|492|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,762|1,011|525|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,215|893|22|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,715|828|11|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,452|1,041|98|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,976|1,323|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,556|614|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,936|786|256|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,464|1,494|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,333|908|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,408|634|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,282|674|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,816|664|4|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,996|570|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,195|857|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,923|995|5|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|2,477|920|36|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,648|542|7|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,344|658|103|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,417|492|33|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,438|391|5|West Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|349|356|1,038|West Virginia}}