Editing Berkeley County, West Virginia (section)

==Politics==
After having leaned strongly towards the Democratic Party between the New Deal and [[presidency of Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton’s presidency]], most of West Virginia has since 2000 seen a powerful swing towards the Republican Party due to declining unionization<ref>Schwartzman, Gabe; [http://www.dailyyonder.com/how-coalfields-went-gop/2015/01/13/7668/ ‘How Central Appalachia Went Right’]; ''Daily Yonder'', January 13, 2015</ref> and differences with the Democratic Party’s liberal views on social issues.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> Berkeley County, in contrast, was in the majority opposed to secession at [[Virginia Secession Convention of 1861|the Virginia Secession Convention]]<ref>Hinkle, Harlan H.; ''Grayback Mountaineers: The Confederate Face of Western Virginia'', p. 176 {{ISBN|0595268404}}</ref><ref>Brisbin, Richard A.; ''West Virginia Politics and Government'', p. 107 {{ISBN|0803219369}}</ref> and has voted solidly Republican over most of the century and a half since, with the exception of Democratic landslides. No Democratic presidential candidate has carried Berkeley County since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. However, likely due to its exurban DC status, it has not swung to the right as much as West Virginia as a whole, and has voted increasingly more Democratic than the state beginning in 2008.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|37,580|17,500|1,022|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|33,279|17,186|1,074|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|28,244|12,321|2,799|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|22,156|14,275|876|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|20,841|15,994|565|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|21,293|12,244|248|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|13,619|8,797|594|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|9,859|8,321|2,396|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|9,134|7,159|3,736|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|10,761|6,313|61|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|12,887|6,181|24|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|9,955|6,783|716|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|8,935|8,216|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|10,954|4,523|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|7,223|4,929|2,321|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|5,457|8,628|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|8,369|7,072|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|9,071|5,649|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|8,149|7,111|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|6,042|6,797|34|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|6,151|5,819|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|6,562|8,658|0|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,585|8,336|39|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6,370|7,009|148|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|8,477|3,540|42|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|5,427|4,366|412|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,259|4,399|90|West Virginia}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,802|2,938|86|West Virginia}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|1,349|2,703|1,339|West Virginia}}