Editing Tuolumne County, California (section)

==Politics==

=== Voter registration statistics ===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
| colspan="2" | 55,736
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 - Report of Registration] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727173649/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=July 27, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 32,101
| 57.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 10,306
| 32.1%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 13,529
| 42.1%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic&ndash;Republican spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-3,223'''</span>
| <span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-10.0%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Independent<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1,313
| 4.1%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 248
| 0.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 248
| 0.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 100
| 0.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans Elect<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1
| 0.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 68
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 6,288
| 19.6%
|}

==== Cities by population and voter registration ====

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|-
! colspan="8" | Cities by population and voter registration
|-
! City
! data-sort-type="number" | Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS"/><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | D&ndash;R spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
! data-sort-type="number" | No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
|-
| [[Sonora, California|Sonora]] || 4,899 || 55.0% || 38.2% || 32.4% || <span style="color: #800080;">'''+5.8%'''</span> || 10.7% || 22.8%
|}

=== Overview ===
Tuolumne county tends to vote Republican in [[President of the United States|Presidential]] and [[United States Congress|congressional]] elections. The last Democrat to win the county was [[Bill Clinton]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1992|1992]]. In the [[United States presidential election in California, 2008|2008 presidential election]], 14,988 votes were counted for [[John McCain]] with former president [[Barack Obama]] receiving 11,532 votes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/individual/#mapPCA|title=Local and National Election Results - Election Center 2008 - Elections & Politics from CNN.com|website=Cnn.com|access-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref>

{{PresHead|place=Tuolumne County, California|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=September 6, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|17,210|10,909|697|California}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|17,689|11,978|741|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|14,551|9,123|2,219|California}}  
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|13,880|9,998|880|California}}  
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|14,988|11,532|783|California}}  
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|15,745|10,104|386|California}}  
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|13,172|9,359|1,196|California}}  
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|10,386|8,950|2,636|California}}  
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|8,525|9,216|6,437|California}}  
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|10,646|8,717|352|California}}  
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|10,485|7,283|283|California}}  
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|8,810|5,449|1,804|California}}  
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|6,104|6,492|407|California}}  
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|5,894|4,596|366|California}}  
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|4,330|3,913|876|California}}  
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,861|4,939|20|California}}  
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|3,691|3,781|44|California}}  
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,619|3,310|14|California}}  
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,050|2,735|59|California}}  
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,639|2,561|274|California}}  
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,864|2,566|32|California}}  
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,004|3,541|79|California}}  
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,199|3,303|40|California}}  
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,145|2,521|128|California}}  
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,731|1,360|68|California}}  
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive|1,287|357|1,347|California}}  
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,285|659|220|California}}  
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,057|1,584|281|California}}  
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|8|1,459|1,158|California}}  
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|943|878|303|California}}  
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,280|1,006|339|California}}  
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|1,309|1,530|64|California}}  
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|834|1,308|49|California}}  
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|739|916|167|California}}

Tuolumne County is in {{Representative|cacd|5|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|4|access-date=March 1, 2013}}</ref> In the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]] Tuolumne is in the 8th Assembly district, which is held by Republican [[Frank Bigelow|Jim Patterson]] and the 4th Senate district, which is held by Republican [[Andreas Borgeas|Marie Alvarado-Gill.]]