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=== Presidential elections === Letcher County has a somewhat similar political history to West Virginia. Under the [[Fourth Party System]] it was a reliable Republican county, voting Republican in every election from 1884<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1884.htm|title=Presidential election of 1884 - Map by counties|website=geoelections.free.fr}}</ref> to 1928.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential election of 1928 - Map by counties |url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1928.htm |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=geoelections.free.fr}}</ref> However, with increasing unionization under the [[New Deal]] it turned for the next sixty to seventy years into a fairly solid Democratic county, apart from the 1956 and 1972 landslides and the candidacy of [[John F. Kennedy]]. However, since 2004 as the Democratic Party has become opposed to coal production due to [[global warming]] issues, it has become a solidly Republican county.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wilson-Black |first=Hannah |date=October 20, 2023 |title='I Am Home': In Appalachia, Environmentalists Defy Partisan Categories |url=https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/i-am-home-appalachia-environmentalists-defy-partisan-categories |website=Pulitzer Center}}</ref>
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