Editing Buffalo County, Wisconsin (section)

==Politics==

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,213|2,765|122|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,834|2,860|122|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,048|2,525|408|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|3,364|3,570|105|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|2,923|3,949|128|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|3,502|3,998|91|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|3,038|3,237|366|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,800|2,681|1,076|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,029|2,996|1,925|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|2,783|3,481|49|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,325|2,921|58|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,569|3,276|573|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,844|3,448|135|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,079|2,461|120|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,992|2,112|415|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,091|3,663|5|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,464|2,790|2|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,387|2,266|8|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,233|1,988|11|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,350|2,563|80|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|3,416|1,948|42|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|4,056|2,516|103|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,481|3,434|279|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,711|3,252|65|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,027|1,836|29|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive (Wisconsin)|1,324|176|2,506|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|3,082|299|228|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,492|1,043|104|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|1,239|848|460|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,937|1,027|76|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|2,147|911|83|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,091|1,205|55|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|2,301|1,302|115|Wisconsin}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|1,523|1,393|163|Wisconsin}}

Between 1948 and 1984, Buffalo County voted for the nationwide winner in every election with the exception of the very close 1960 election. Then, from 1988 to 2012, like most of the rural counties in southwestern Wisconsin, it backed the Democratic candidate in each election, and did so by more than a 6% margin each time except for 2000 and 2012, which were both decided by less than a 3% margin. The results from 2012 foreshadowed the shift in the electorate in Buffalo County, as in 2016, once again like the rest of rural southwestern Wisconsin, the county dramatically swung to the right, shifting 25 points and giving a 22% victory to Republican [[Donald Trump]]. Trump further expanded his margin of victory to over 25% in 2020 and to over 30% in 2024, achieving the two highest vote shares for a Republican in the county since [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in his 1952 landslide victory.