Editing Wayne County, Michigan (section)

==Politics==
Wayne County has backed the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] presidential nominee in every election since 1932, at times by large margins. From 1896 to 1928, it had always voted Republican for president, or at least more Republican than Democratic. <!-- this is important because the 1932 election is a realignment. this is a very rare streak. --> Its large population has helped swing the election to Democrats in many statewide elections since then, with candidates running up large margins here offsetting Republican majorities in most rural counties of Michigan. In fact, between 1944 and 2012, the county had the largest margin of victory for the Democratic candidate in Michigan in every presidential election except for 1976 and 1984, both times coming in second place to [[Gogebic County, Michigan|Gogebic County]] in the [[Upper Peninsula of Michigan|Upper Peninsula]] by less than 1.5%.

More recently, however, the margin of victory for the Democrats has started to shrink. Beginning in 2016, neighboring [[Washtenaw County, Michigan|Washtenaw County]], home of the [[University of Michigan]], has surpassed Wayne County as the most Democratic county in Michigan; and in 2024, [[Ingham County, Michigan|Ingham County]], home of [[Michigan State University]], also voted more Democratic than Wayne County. In 2020, [[Donald Trump]] became the first Republican since 1988 to crack 30% of the vote in the county. 

The 2024 election saw an even bigger shift, with Trump taking more than one-third of the county's vote, and [[Kamala Harris]] turning in the worst performance for a Democrat in Wayne County in 36 years, winning by less than 30% for the first time since 1988. The shift was due in part to many [[Arab Americans|Arab American]] and [[Islam in the United States|American Muslim]] voters in [[Dearborn, Michigan|Dearborn]] and [[Hamtramck, Michigan|Hamtramck]] voting for a third-party candidate or for Trump, to protest the [[Presidency of Joe Biden|Biden Administration]]'s handling of the [[Gaza War]].

The last Republican candidate to carry Wayne County in a statewide election was [[Candice Miller]] when she won re-election to the [[Michigan Secretary of State|Secretary of State]] office in [[1998 Michigan Secretary of State election|1998]].

===Federal representation===
Wayne County is split between three congressional districts:
* [[Michigan's 6th congressional district|6th]]
* [[Michigan's 12th congressional district|12th]]
* [[Michigan's 13th congressional district|13th]]

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|288,860|537,032|33,434|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|264,553|597,170|12,295|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|228,993|519,444|34,282|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|213,814|595,846|8,476|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|219,582|660,085|12,064|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|257,750|600,047|6,931|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|223,021|530,414|15,192|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|175,886|504,466|51,245|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|227,002|508,464|106,499|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|291,996|450,222|5,938|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|367,391|496,632|4,320|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|315,532|522,024|53,288|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|348,588|548,767|15,635|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|435,877|514,913|16,087|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|270,566|654,157|109,537|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|260,901|831,674|2,149|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|394,485|773,327|4,097|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|481,783|664,618|1,844|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|456,371|622,236|4,774|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|321,773|489,654|34,679|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|316,270|554,670|4,153|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|275,974|451,003|5,592|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|190,732|404,055|31,333|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|212,678|310,686|20,237|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|265,852|157,047|3,819|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|268,653|23,817|42,866|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|220,482|51,773|22,688|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|70,056|60,935|4,193|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|26,599|22,678|39,144|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|49,580|24,128|4,132|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|48,393|19,548|1,809|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|36,671|28,337|1,348|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|36,400|26,231|1,527|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|26,361|27,508|1,197|Michigan}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|21,326|25,986|900|Michigan}}
{{PresFoot|1884|Democratic|17,315|20,930|703|Michigan}}