Editing Kings County, California (section)

==Politics==
===Voter registration===
According to the Kings County Election Office, as of March 24, 2017, 51,323 residents were registered to vote. There were 22,341 voters registered as Republicans, 17,429 registered as Democrats and 9,443 did not state a party preference. The remaining 2,104 registered with minor parties.<ref>''Hanford Sentinel'', April 11, 2017</ref>

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total population<ref name="US-CB-B02001">U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey, 2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Table B02001. [https://www.census.gov U.S. Census website]. Retrieved October 26, 2013.</ref>
| colspan="2" | 152,335
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 - Report of Registration] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727173649/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 48,485
| 31.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 17,336
| 35.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 21,893
| 45.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic&ndash;Republican spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| <span style="color: #800080;">'''-4,557'''</span>
| <span style="color: #800080;">'''-9.4%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Independent<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1,236
| 2.5%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 94
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 214
| 0.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 86
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans Elect<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 2
| 0.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 161
| 0.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 7,463
| 15.4%
|}

==== Cities by population and voter registration ====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Cities by population and voter registration
|-
! City
! data-sort-type="number" | Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS"/><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | D&ndash;R spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
|-
| [[Avenal, California|Avenal]] || 15,705 || 10.7% || 53.7% || 26.7% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+27.0%'''</span> || 5.3% || 16.4%
|-
| [[Corcoran, California|Corcoran]] || 25,113 || 17.1% || 57.4% || 26.3% || <span style="color: #0000ff;">'''+31.1%'''</span> || 4.8% || 13.4%
|-
| [[Hanford, California|Hanford]] || 53,159 || 41.1% || 33.9% || 47.0% || <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-13.1%'''</span> || 6.5% || 15.2%
|-
| [[Lemoore, California|Lemoore]] || 24,217 || 39.2% || 31.9% || 46.2% || <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-14.3%'''</span> || 7.2% || 17.8%
|}

=== Overview ===
Kings has long been a strongly Republican county in [[President of the United States|Presidential]] elections. The last Democratic candidate for president to win the county was [[Hubert Humphrey]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1968|1968]], and the last to win a majority was [[Lyndon Johnson]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1964|1964]].

{{PresHead|place=Kings County, California|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=August 31, 2018}}</ref>|source2=<ref group=note>This total comprised 1,419 votes for [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (who was official Republican nominee in California), 406 votes for [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene V. Debs]] and 156 votes for [[Prohibition Party]] nominee [[Eugene W. Chafin]].</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|25,074|15,519|915|California}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|24,072|18,699|1,090|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|18,093|13,617|2,600|California}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|17,671|12,979|768|California}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|19,710|14,747|651|California}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|21,003|10,833|274|California}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|16,377|11,041|917|California}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|12,368|11,254|2,193|California}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|10,673|9,982|4,996|California}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|12,118|9,142|222|California}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|13,364|7,324|160|California}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|10,531|7,299|1,191|California}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|8,263|8,061|318|California}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|10,509|7,274|812|California}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|7,796|8,643|1,662|California}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|5,753|13,073|14|California}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|6,991|9,439|92|California}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|6,195|8,417|40|California}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|7,708|7,850|113|California}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|4,289|6,909|323|California}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|3,468|6,591|75|California}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|3,911|8,307|102|California}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,226|7,062|116|California}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,009|5,191|318|California}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,947|2,701|73|California}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,812|1,109|1,703|California}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,806|1,604|297|California}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,221|2,905|476|California}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|0|1,967|1,981|California}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,198|859|194|California}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,110|595|187|California}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,032|872|90|California}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Democratic|673|862|28|California}}

In November 2008, Kings County voted 73.7% for [[Proposition 8]] which amended the California Constitution to define marriage as between one man and one woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2008-general/sov_complete.pdf|title=Statement of Vote: November 4, 2008, General Election|last=Bowen|first=Debra|date=December 13, 2008|website=California Secretary of State|access-date=December 2, 2019}}</ref>