Editing Clatsop County, Oregon (section)

==Politics==
Like all of the northern Oregon coast, Clatsop County was consistently Republican up to and including [[1928 United States presidential election in Oregon|the 1928 election]],<ref name="Geography">
{{cite book
  | last = Menendez
  | first = Albert J.
  | title = The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004
  | pages = 284–285 
  | publisher = Jefferson: McFarland & Company
  | location = London
  | year = 2005
  | isbn = 0786422173
  | oclc = 750587959
}}</ref> except in 1912 when third-party former President Theodore Roosevelt won by one vote with the lowest percentage for a winning candidate in any county since the Civil War.<ref>
{{cite web
  | title = Dave Leip's US Election Atlas {{hyphen}} 1912 Presidential Election Statistics
  | url = http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1912&f=0&off=0&elect=0
  | website = uselectionatlas.org
  | author = David Leip
  | access-date = April 10, 2018
}}</ref> Since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] won the county in 1932, Clatsop has generally been carried by the Democratic candidate in presidential elections. The only exception to this is [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], who won the county twice, thereby making this Oregon county the one to have gone the longest without supporting a Republican nominee.<ref name="Geography"/> However, [[George McGovern]] won it by just nineteen votes in [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]],<ref>
{{cite web
  | title = Dave Leip's US Election Atlas {{hyphen}} 1972 Presidential General Election Data Graphs: Oregon
  | url = http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1972&fips=41&f=0&off=0&elect=0
  | website = uselectionatlas.org
  | author = David Leip
  | access-date = April 10, 2018
}}</ref> and [[Walter Mondale]] by a mere three votes (or 0.02 percent) [[1984 United States presidential election|in 1984]].<ref>
{{cite web
  | title = Dave Leip's US Election Atlas {{hyphen}} 1984 Presidential General Election Data Graphs: Oregon
  | url = http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1984&fips=41&f=0&off=0&elect=0
  | website = uselectionatlas.org
  | author = David Leip
  | access-date = April 10, 2018
}}</ref>

In gubernatorial elections, the county has been won by the Democratic Party candidate since 1982, starting with a streak of seven consecutive elections with the Democratic Party carrying Clatsop County. That winning streak ended in 2014, with the GOP gubernatorial candidate, [[Dennis Richardson (politician)|Dennis Richardson]], unexpectedly carrying Clatsop with a final vote total of 6,550 votes (46.33 percent) for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] and 6,449 votes (45.62 percent) cast for the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] and future governor-elect [[John Kitzhaber]].<ref>
{{cite web| url = http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/comparemaps.php?year=2010&fips=41&f=1&off=5&elect=0
  | title = Gubernatorial General Election Map Comparison: Oregon (1982-2014)
  | author = David Leip
  | website = uselectionatlas.org
  | access-date = April 10, 2018
}}</ref>

Clatsop County is located in [[Oregon's 1st congressional district]], which has a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of D+18 and is represented by [[Suzanne Bonamici]]. In the [[Oregon State Senate]], it is represented by Republican [[Suzanne Weber]]. In the [[Oregon House of Representatives]], it is represented by Republican [[Cyrus Javadi]].

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|9,913|12,533|844|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|10,218|12,916|776|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|8,138|9,252|2,274|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|7,249|9,861|708|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|7,192|10,701|655|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|8,503|10,461|345|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|6,950|8,296|1,228|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|5,334|7,732|2,339|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|4,683|7,700|4,429|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|5,956|8,074|286|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|7,522|7,525|38|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|6,124|6,482|2,353|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|6,178|6,690|748|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|5,998|6,017|632|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|5,810|6,243|685|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,023|8,371|19|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|6,286|6,530|50|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,616|6,372|0|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|7,569|5,814|128|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|5,076|5,574|663|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|3,921|6,038|72|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|3,758|6,686|70|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,261|6,267|304|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,570|4,473|414|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|4,087|2,208|159|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,313|1,373|1,195|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,498|1,687|512|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,568|2,239|387|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|722|728|1,226|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,482|658|339|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,408|336|306|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,329|688|105|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|1,849|1,135|69|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|1,148|713|487|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|1,060|647|51|Oregon}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|872|670|9|Oregon}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|536|434|0|Oregon}}