Editing Waushara County, Wisconsin (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|9,625|4,571|167|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|9,016|4,388|164|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|7,667|3,791|616|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|6,562|5,335|151|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|5,770|5,868|211|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|6,888|5,257|101|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,571|4,239|438|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|3,573|3,824|1,433|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|4,045|3,402|2,882|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,953|3,535|65|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,769|2,782|86|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|5,576|2,987|514|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|4,449|3,485|164|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,466|2,094|179|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|4,187|1,652|568|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,437|3,004|0|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,906|1,888|5|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,717|1,387|23|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|5,447|1,242|24|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|3,594|1,430|140|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|4,675|1,485|29|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|4,872|1,747|66|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|3,302|2,636|483|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,541|3,073|124|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|4,068|1,260|66|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive (Wisconsin)|1,602|249|2,671|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|4,176|482|245|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|2,345|1,015|124|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|1,343|772|908|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|2,820|507|210|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,140|325|130|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,990|525|130|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|3,210|456|139|Wisconsin}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|2,091|786|177|Wisconsin}}
Waushara County has long been one of the most Republican counties in Wisconsin. Only three Democrats have carried the county at a presidential level since the formation of the Republican Party – [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1932, [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996, and [[Barack Obama]] in 2008 – of whom only Roosevelt won an absolute majority; Obama only won the county by 98 votes in 2008. In 1936, when Roosevelt carried Wisconsin by a two-to-one majority, [[Alf Landon]] won Waushara County by double digits, while it was one of only three Wisconsin counties, alongside [[Walworth County, Wisconsin|Walworth]] and [[Waupaca County, Wisconsin|Waupaca]], to vote for [[Barry Goldwater]] over [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964. It has voted Republican since 2012. In 2024, [[Donald Trump]] received the highest percentage of the vote for a Republican since 1960.<ref>https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/</ref>

In other statewide races, the county is equally Republican. Waushara County has never backed a Democrat for Governor since before 1900.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/compare.php?year=1964&fips=55&f=0&off=5&elect=0&type=state|publisher=Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas|title=Gubernatorial General Election Results Comparison – Wisconsin}}</ref> Senators [[Herb Kohl]] in 2006 and [[William Proxmire]] in 1976 and 1970 did carry Waushara County when they swept every county in the state, but no other Democratic senatorial candidate has won the county since [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|the Seventeenth Amendment]].