Editing Humboldt County, California (section)

=== Party preferences ===
From 1920 to 1984, the county was a noted bellwether area, voting for the national winner of every Presidential election. Since 1988, Humboldt has swung heavily to the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] at the [[President of the United States|Presidential]] and [[United States Congress|congressional]] levels, and is now one of the most Democratic areas in the state outside the Bay Area and Southern California. The last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was [[Ronald Reagan]], a Californian, in [[United States presidential election in California, 1984|1984]].<ref name="HistData">{{Cite web |title=United States Historical Election Returns Series |url=https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/series/59 |access-date=April 27, 2023 |website=www.icpsr.umich.edu}}</ref>

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Humboldt also had a substantial number of people affiliated with the [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]], but that number has declined in recent years; however, the [[Green Party of California|Green Party]] has had its best performance by presidential and gubernatorial candidates of any county in the United States in Humboldt County, with [[Jill Stein]] gaining her largest county-level number of votes in Humboldt in 2016.{{Citation needed|date=March 2024}}

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|21,559|39,800|3,284|California}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|21,770|44,768|2,886|California}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|18,373|33,200|8,441|California}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|18,825|34,457|4,404|California}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|21,713|39,692|2,563|California}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|25,714|37,988|2,184|California}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|23,219|24,851|7,902|California}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|19,803|24,628|11,326|California}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|18,299|28,854|12,868|California}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|21,460|29,781|905|California}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|27,832|25,217|842|California}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|24,047|17,113|7,532|California}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|18,034|23,500|1,838|California}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|22,345|21,132|2,286|California}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|16,719|16,476|3,019|California}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|12,909|25,515|75|California}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|18,074|20,391|226|California}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|19,019|17,025|133|California}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|19,949|12,949|293|California}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|10,979|11,268|1,019|California}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|9,127|12,083|50|California}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|9,470|12,329|225|California}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,808|11,909|208|California}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6,795|8,723|577|California}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|9,162|3,726|247|California}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|6,767|845|4,298|California}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|6,528|1,778|1,034|California}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|5,786|4,103|1,424|California}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|93|2,887|5,572|California}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,221|1,206|1,065|California}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|4,930|1,249|554|California}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|3,902|1,698|284|California}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|3,142|2,465|68|California}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|2,416|1,844|1,166|California}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|2,773|2,014|170|California}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|2,184|1,450|419|California}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|1,490|735|726|California}}