Editing Kootenai County, Idaho (section)

==Politics==
Kootenai County, like the state of Idaho as a whole, is known for its conservative politics.<ref>{{cite web| last = Blanchard| first = Nicole| title = These are the 20 most liberal places in Idaho| newspaper = [[Idaho Statesman]]| date = July 26, 2018| url = https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article215493035.html| access-date = August 12, 2020}}</ref> Kootenai County votes reliably conservative, and races at the federal and state level are often noncompetitive; local county and city partisan races are sometimes even uncontested.<ref name=SPR>{{cite web| title = State of the Re:Union – Coeur d'Alene and Ideology Migration| date = October 3, 2014| publisher = [[KPBX-FM|Spokane Public Radio]]| url = https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/state-reunion-coeur-dalene-and-ideology-migration#stream/0| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref> The changing demographics of the county and region have altered the political landscape of the community and can be viewed as part of a nationwide ideological [[Political polarization|polarization]] trend.<ref name=HCN>{{cite journal| last = Crane-Murdoch| first = Sierra| title = How right-wing emigrants conquered North Idaho| journal = [[High Country News]]| volume = 8| issue = 45| date = May 20, 2013| url = https://www.hcn.org/issues/45.8/how-right-wing-emigrants-conquered-north-idaho| access-date = August 8, 2020}}</ref> North Idaho had once been made up of largely [[Lunch pail Democrat|progressive]] districts populated by a significant proportion of union laborers who worked the mines in the [[Shoshone County, Idaho|Silver Valley]]; these districts moderated, particularly in the 1980s, after mine and mill closures and [[Right-to-work law|union busting]], and they had more competitive elections until the late 20th century.<ref name=HCN/><ref name=SPR/><ref>{{cite web| last = Siegler| first = Kirk| title = Leaving Urban Areas For The Political Homogeneity Of Rural Towns| publisher = [[NPR]]| series = [[Morning Edition]]| date = February 14, 2017| url = https://www.npr.org/2017/02/14/512875545/leaving-urban-areas-for-the-political-homogeneity-of-rural-towns| access-date = August 14, 2020}}</ref><ref name =BF>{{cite web| last = Petersen| first = Anne Helen| title = Here's What Happens When Republicans Have No One To Fight| publisher = [[BuzzFeed News]]| date = October 22, 2017| url = https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/wackadoodles-north-idaho| access-date = August 14, 2020}}</ref> Coeur d'Alene is among a small group of cities in the United States that has elected a [[List of elected socialist mayors in the United States|socialist mayor]]; they elected John T. Wood, a [[Socialist Party of America]] member, to office in 1911 on a [[Sewer socialism|campaign platform]] of clean water, better health and sanitation standards, and anti-corruption.<ref>Singletary (2019), p. 63</ref> Since the high-growth period beginning in the 1990s, continuing outmigration of conservatives from the [[Left Coast|west coast]] states has made elections in the [[two-party system]] less competitive over time as the newer residents see the city as a place that represents their social and political values, which are sometimes more conservative than the city as a whole.<ref name=SPR/><ref name=BF/> Many of the new migrants to the state of Idaho came from California, which accounted for over half the net in-migration between 1992 and 2000 and three of the top four counties that had out-migration to Kootenai County were from the birthplace of modern American [[Conservatism in the United States|conservatism]] in [[southern California]]–[[San Diego County, California|San Diego]], [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles]], and [[Orange County, California|Orange]].<ref name=HCN/>

{{PresHead|place=Kootenai County, Idaho|source1=<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=April 4, 2018}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 1,805 votes while Socialist candidate [[Eugene Debs]] received 1,030 votes and [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene Chafin]] 169 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|72,059|22,113|2,193|Idaho}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|62,837|24,312|2,729|Idaho}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|44,449|16,264|5,597|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|39,381|18,851|2,273|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|38,387|22,120|2,028|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|36,173|17,584|846|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|28,162|13,488|2,162|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|18,740|13,627|6,819|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|13,065|11,553|11,710|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|15,093|11,621|416|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|17,330|9,004|355|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|17,022|7,521|2,369|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|10,493|7,225|441|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|9,958|5,162|1,118|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|7,092|6,207|1,472|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|6,096|8,215|0|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|6,704|7,744|0|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|7,330|6,149|0|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|7,272|5,414|88|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|4,265|5,284|713|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|4,388|5,792|42|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|4,333|5,997|132|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,586|5,752|661|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,813|4,743|706|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|4,973|2,020|121|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,289|3,256|790|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,518|1,818|0|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,741|2,855|826|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,690|2,506|3,004|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,407|2,206|1,396|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|4,165|1,178|823|Idaho}} 
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|1,472|1,871|0|Idaho}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|334|1,432|13|Idaho}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Populist|713|0|774|Idaho}}