Editing Dodge County, Wisconsin (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|33,067|16,518|715|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|31,355|16,356|725|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|26,635|13,968|2,475|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|25,211|18,762|515|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|23,015|19,183|625|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|27,201|16,690|445|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|21,684|14,580|1,437|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|12,890|12,625|3,907|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|14,971|11,438|9,300|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|17,003|12,663|261|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|20,458|11,052|251|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|19,435|11,966|2,281|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|17,335|13,643|663|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|17,068|9,898|771|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|14,909|8,948|1,901|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|10,772|15,497|39|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|17,152|10,113|30|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|17,569|6,704|93|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|19,298|7,001|37|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|10,831|8,212|245|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|14,102|7,667|114|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|14,651|8,948|260|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,829|14,782|988|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|4,936|15,874|338|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|9,660|9,536|238|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive (Wisconsin)|5,167|2,019|9,785|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|11,354|2,293|1,011|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,887|4,519|240|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,559|5,246|942|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|4,015|5,883|225|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|4,248|5,005|206|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|4,780|5,813|185|Wisconsin}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,610|4,900|372|Wisconsin}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|2,653|6,810|246|Wisconsin}}

Since 1940, Dodge County has been a Republican stronghold in presidential elections. It has voted Republican in every election in that span with the exception of the 1964 landslide victory of Democrat [[Lyndon B. Johnson]]. Only six other times in that span has the Democratic candidate obtained at least 40% of the vote. In 2024, [[Donald Trump]] received over 65% of the vote in Dodge County, the best Republican performance since the 1956 landslide reelection of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]].

Historically, Dodge County had been a major stronghold of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, from the establishment of the state, in 1848, until the 1910s, when a combination of {{nowrap|[[World War I]]}} and the rise of the [[Progressive Era|progressive faction]] of Republicans began to eat into the Democratic vote in the county. A significant factor in the switch was the anti-war attitude among the county's large [[German Americans|German American]] population.  Democratic president [[Woodrow Wilson]] and Wisconsin's Democratic U.S. senator [[Paul&nbsp;O. Husting]] (who was actually from Dodge County) supported the declaration of war against Germany in 1917, while progressive Republican leader [[Robert&nbsp;M. La&nbsp;Follette]] was one of only six senators who voted against the resolution.  In the next presidential election, Dodge County gave 77% of its votes to the Republican nominee&mdash;the largest majority the county has given to either party in the last 130 years.