Editing Larimer County, Colorado (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|89,680|129,376|6,598|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|91,489|126,120|6,729|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|83,430|93,113|19,438|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|82,376|92,747|5,057|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|73,642|89,823|2,910|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|75,884|68,266|2,286|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|62,429|46,055|10,053|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|45,935|40,965|10,550|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|35,995|38,232|25,433|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|45,967|35,703|1,396|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|49,883|23,896|1,069|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|36,240|17,072|10,817|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|32,169|19,005|1,809|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|27,462|13,731|1,041|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|18,438|9,152|2,086|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|11,636|12,776|173|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|15,671|7,550|34|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|14,364|5,612|39|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|14,484|5,266|110|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|9,813|7,062|154|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|9,914|5,172|58|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|10,720|6,402|126|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|7,243|7,521|457|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|7,040|6,494|584|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|8,213|3,203|162|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|6,538|1,970|1,301|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,487|2,708|333|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,797|4,868|518|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,932|2,597|2,632|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,489|3,629|668|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|4,138|2,070|398|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|2,343|2,456|312|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|734|3,195|124|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|975|0|1,290|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|1,322|769|176|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|1,038|644|240|Colorado}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|646|388|179|Colorado}}

Larimer was long a Republican stronghold. Between 1920 and 2004, the only Democratic presidential candidate to win a majority of votes in the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964. However, increasing urbanization, as well as the influence of Colorado State University, caused the Republican margins to decline steadily in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2008, [[Barack Obama]] became the first Democrat to carry the county with the majority of the vote since 1964, and in so doing recorded the best performance by a Democrat since the days of [[Woodrow Wilson]] and [[William Jennings Bryan]]. In 2020, Joe Biden's margin of victory was even greater and in 2024, Larimer was one of the few counties nationwide to swing towards Kamala Harris.

The city of Fort Collins, which is heavily Democratic, dominates the county's population and thus solidifies its Democratic leaning, and other Democratic areas include Estes Park and some of the more rural, mountainous areas of the central part of the county. The city of Loveland leans Republican, as do the sparsely-populated northern parts of the county.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html | title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election | work=The New York Times | date=February 2, 2021 | last1=Park | first1=Alice | last2=Smart | first2=Charlie | last3=Taylor | first3=Rumsey | last4=Watkins | first4=Miles }}</ref>

Larimer County is a state-level [[List of election bellwether counties in the United States|bellwether county]]; as of the [[2020 US presidential election in Colorado|2020 election]], it has voted for the statewide winner in every election since [[1948 US presidential election in Colorado|1948]], when [[Harry Truman]] carried Colorado without it.