Editing Imperial 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">U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey, 2011 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, Table B02001. [https://www.census.gov U.S. Census website]  . Retrieved October 26, 2013.</ref>
| colspan="2" | 171,343
|-
! 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>
| 60,690
| 35.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 30,599
| 50.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 14,413
| 23.7%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic–Republican spread<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+16,186'''</span>
| <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+26.7%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;American Independent<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 1,402
| 2.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 141
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 215
| 0.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 255
| 0.4%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Americans Elect<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 8
| 0.0%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 358
| 0.6%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="CA-SS"/>
| 13,299
| 21.9%
|}

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

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed sortable" style="width: 100%;"
|+ 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–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"/>
|-
| [[Brawley, California|Brawley]] || 24,645 || 37.1% || 50.5% || 26.7% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+23.8%'''</span> || 5.9% || 19.1%
|-
| [[Calexico, California|Calexico]] || 37,378 || 39.0% || 61.8% || 9.7% || <span style="color: #0000ff;">'''+52.1%'''</span> || 4.2% || 25.6%
|-
| [[Calipatria, California|Calipatria]] || 7,292 || 16.0% || 53.7% || 18.7% || <span style="color: #0000ff;">'''+35.0%'''</span> || 6.5% || 23.4%
|-
| [[El Centro, California|El Centro]] || 42,141 || 38.1% || 49.0% || 25.6% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+23.4%'''</span> || 6.0% || 21.6%
|-
| [[Holtville, California|Holtville]] || 5,908 || 35.3% || 45.0% || 28.4% || <span style="color: #2b00d6;">'''+16.6%'''</span> || 8.2% || 21.5%
|-
| [[Imperial, California|Imperial]] || 14,017 || 40.9% || 39.6% || 32.4% || <span style="color: #800080;">'''+7.2%'''</span> || 7.9% || 23.1%
|-
| [[Westmorland, California|Westmorland]] || 1,714 || 42.8% || 56.0% || 19.5% || <span style="color: #0000ff;">'''+36.5%'''</span> || 7.1% || 20.0%
|}

=== Overview ===
Previously strongly Republican, Imperial County was a Democratic stronghold in presidential, congressional, and local elections until 2024. The last Republican to win a majority in the county was [[George H. W. Bush]] in [[United States presidential election in California, 1988|1988]].

However, in [[2024 United States presidential election in California|2024]], Republican [[Donald Trump]] flipped the county, receiving 49.12% of the vote, the highest percentage since 1988. The county swung over 25 points to the right from 2020 to 2024, the most of any county in California. This was in line with a trend of Trump winning most [[List of majority-Hispanic or Latino counties in the United States|majority-Hispanic]] counties along the [[Mexico–United States border|Mexico-U.S. border]] in 2024.

{{PresHead|place=Imperial County, California|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=November 7, 2017}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|26,546|26,083|1,409|California}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|20,847|34,678|1,218|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|12,704|32,667|2,720|California}}  
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|12,777|25,136|652|California}}  
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|14,008|24,162|650|California}}  
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|15,890|17,964|420|California}}  
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|12,524|15,489|924|California}}  
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|9,705|14,591|2,104|California}}  
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|9,759|11,109|4,450|California}}  
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|12,889|10,243|233|California}}  
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|13,829|8,237|235|California}}  
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|12,068|7,961|1,550|California}}  
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|10,618|10,244|400|California}}  
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|14,178|7,982|689|California}}  
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|10,818|7,481|2,147|California}}  
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|10,330|11,143|19|California}}  
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|10,606|9,119|81|California}}  
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|10,526|8,197|58|California}}  
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|11,044|6,619|112|California}}  
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|6,217|5,301|292|California}}  
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|5,979|5,085|48|California}}  
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|6,854|7,728|130|California}}  
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|4,771|7,560|113|California}}  
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|3,783|8,772|484|California}}  
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,417|2,486|109|California}}  
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,455|759|2,658|California}}  
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|4,699|2,022|563|California}}  
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,694|3,273|692|California}}  
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|13|1,295|2,059|California}}  
{{PresFoot|1908|Republican|909|675|324|California}}

On November 4, 2008, Imperial County voted 69.7% for [[California Proposition 8 (2008)|Proposition 8]], which amended the California Constitution to ban same-sex marriages, showing more support for the proposition than any other strongly Democratic county.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/maps/returns/props/prop-8.htm|title=Proposition 8 Map – November 4, 2008, General Election – California Secretary of State|website=Sos.ca.gov|access-date=August 17, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090808223850/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/sov/2008_general/maps/returns/props/prop-8.htm|archive-date=August 8, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/15day-stwdsp-09/county.xls|title=Registration by County|website=Sos.ca.gov|access-date=August 17, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091012044147/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/15day-stwdsp-09/county.xls|archive-date=October 12, 2009}}</ref> After Prop 8 was declared unconstitutional by a lower federal court, Imperial County continued to defend Proposition 8 in the federal judicial system.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/08/22/MNTK1F0U3N.DTL | work=The San Francisco Chronicle | title=Imperial County steps up to defend Prop. 8 | first=Kevin | last=Fagan | date=August 26, 2010 | access-date=August 25, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100825161408/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2010%2F08%2F22%2FMNTK1F0U3N.DTL | archive-date=August 25, 2010 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}</ref> However, on February 6, 2012, the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit]] denied Imperial County [[legal standing]] in the case [[Hollingsworth v. Perry]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Denniston|first=Lyle|title=Prop. 8: Final ruling due|url=http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/02/prop-8-final-ruling-due/|access-date=June 18, 2013|newspaper=[[SCOTUSblog]]|date=February 6, 2012}}</ref> In 2024, Imperial County also voted against [[2024 California Proposition 3]], which superseded Proposition 8.

Imperial County is in {{Representative|cacd|25|fmt=district}}.<ref>{{Cite GovTrack|CA|25|access-date=April 7, 2013}}</ref> In the [[California State Legislature|state legislature]], the county is in {{Representative|caad|36|fmt=adistrict}},<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://assembly.ca.gov/assemblymembers |title=Members Assembly |access-date=April 7, 2013 |publisher=State of California}}</ref> and {{Representative|casd|18|fmt=sdistrict}}.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://senate.ca.gov/senators |title=Senators |access-date=April 7, 2013 |publisher=State of California}}</ref>