Editing Lake County, Ohio (section)

==Politics==
Lake County has traditionally been known as a "purple" or "[[Swing state|swing]]" county within the state.  A 2008 analysis of Ohio presidential election results from [[1960 United States presidential election|1960]] to [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] found no other county more closely followed Ohio's statewide voting pattern.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2008/08/ohios_presidential_election_be.html | title=Ohio's presidential election bellwether: Lake County | work=Cleveland Plain Dealer | date=August 19, 2008 | access-date=June 24, 2012 | author=Exner, Rich | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026130458/http://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/index.ssf/2008/08/ohios_presidential_election_be.html | archive-date=October 26, 2012 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Although it did not always vote with the winner, it had consistently been closer to the winner's Ohio vote percentage than any other Ohio county.  More recently, however, the county has trended more strongly Republican than the state as a whole.  For example, in [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]] Republican presidential candidate [[Donald Trump]] won the county by nearly a fourteen point margin while [[2020 United States presidential election in Ohio|winning the state as a whole]] by only eight points.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|72,924|54,484|1,751|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|73,278|55,514|1,990|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|64,255|46,397|6,538|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|58,744|57,680|2,241|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|59,142|60,155|2,345|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|62,193|59,049|581|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|51,747|46,497|4,320|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|40,974|43,186|13,576|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|40,766|37,682|27,542|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|52,963|39,667|894|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|54,587|36,711|1,027|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|43,485|35,246|7,697|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|36,390|40,734|2,284|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|42,488|27,523|2,130|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|28,450|27,932|9,177|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|23,282|38,552|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|32,038|33,425|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|31,017|19,718|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|23,483|15,346|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|12,973|10,844|291|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|13,697|12,713|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|13,464|12,408|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|9,386|11,213|1,108|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|11,792|6,801|603|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|11,823|4,024|79|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|7,727|974|2,226|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|7,465|2,711|147|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,887|2,596|135|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|1,155|1,429|2,458|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|3,635|1,605|188|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,824|871|309|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|3,929|1,733|81|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|3,745|1,682|48|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|2,846|1,158|215|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|2,987|1,157|225|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|2,925|1,120|155|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|2,978|1,104|109|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1876|Republican|2,941|1,141|44|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1872|Republican|2,751|979|10|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1868|Republican|2,909|889|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1864|Republican|2,787|586|0|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1860|Republican|2,521|622|100|Ohio}}
{{PresRow|1856|Republican|2,371|628|39|Ohio}}
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{{U.S. SenHead|place=Lake County, Ohio|Seat=1|source=<ref>{{cite news |title=2024 Senate Election (Official Returns) |website=Commonwealth of Texas by county |date=November 5, 2024 |access-date=December 5, 2024 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/ohio-senate-results}}</ref>}}
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{{U.S. SenRow|2024|Republican|64,089|58,125|4,045|Ohio}}
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