Editing Pima County, Arizona (section)

===Politics===
Being home to a major population center and a major research university, Pima County is one of the most reliably Democratic counties in Arizona. After voting Democratic through 1930s and 1940s, it swung Republican following major population increase after World War II, becoming a Republican-leaning county. However, in 1964, it rejected Arizona's native son Barry Goldwater by seven points, who won statewide by one point. However, despite the county's Republican lean, Democrats would not win 40% of the vote only twice - in 1972, when [[George McGovern]] lost in a 49-state landslide and due to a balloting error in the county, the [[Socialist Workers Party (United States)|Socialist Workers Party]] came a distant third with 18% of the vote;<ref>{{Cite web|last=Seeley|first=John|date=November 22, 2000|title=Early and Often|url=https://www.laweekly.com/early-and-often-3/|access-date=September 3, 2021|website=LA Weekly|language=en-US}}</ref> and in 1980, when [[Jimmy Carter]], being largely insensitive to Western states' issues, also lost many votes to independent [[John B. Anderson]]. Following Bill Clinton's plurality victory by 12 points in 1992, all Democrats since 1996 have won the county by a majority and no Republican has come closer than six points in recapturing the county. In both 2016 and 2020, [[Donald Trump]] became the first Republican since [[Bob Dole]] in 1996 to fail to win 40% of the county's vote. However, Trump won 41.7% of the county's vote in his third presidential run in 2024.
{{PresHead|place=Pima County, Arizona|source=<ref>{{cite web|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of United States Presidential Elections|access-date=June 11, 2011|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|214,669|292,450|7,908|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|207,758|304,981|9,435|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|167,428|224,661|29,551|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|174,779|201,251|7,143|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|182,406|206,254|6,180|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|171,109|193,128|3,255|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|124,579|147,688|15,373|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|104,121|137,983|22,448|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|97,036|128,569|55,879|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|117,899|113,824|2,750|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|123,830|91,585|2,197|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|93,055|64,418|29,584|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|77,264|71,214|6,583|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|73,154|56,223|31,733|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|49,479|39,786|8,501|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|46,955|54,120|203|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|46,734|42,171|239|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|39,298|23,536|51|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|32,113|21,237|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|16,968|17,692|965|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|10,850|13,006|57|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|9,445|14,035|82|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,079|12,249|262|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6,152|11,061|514|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|6,635|4,976|42|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,559|2,594|2,286|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,392|2,455|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,616|2,079|227|Arizona}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|353|693|758|Arizona}}