Editing Yuma County, Arizona (section)

==Government==
The Board of Supervisors is the governing body of the county and a number of special districts. The board has members from five districts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.yumacountyaz.gov/government/board-of-supervisors|title=Board of Supervisors {{!}} Yuma County|website=www.yumacountyaz.gov|language=en|access-date=March 29, 2018}}</ref> The Board adopts ordinances, establishes programs, levies taxes, appropriates funds, appoints certain officials, and zones property and regulates development in the unincorporated area. In addition, members of the Board represent the county on numerous intergovernmental agencies.<ref>{{cite web|title=Committees served by Board Members {{!}} Yuma County|url=https://www.yumacountyaz.gov/government/board-of-supervisors/committees-served-by-board-members|access-date=July 6, 2020|website=www.yumacountyaz.gov}}</ref>

In Arizona's first 52 years as a state, Yuma County was a primarily Democratic county, only voting for the Republican candidates four times in presidential elections prior to 1968. From 1968 onward, it has consistently voted for Republican presidential candidates. In 2016, county voters elected more Democrats to the Board than Republicans for the first time since 2004.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Santos |first=Fernanda |date=December 13, 2016 |title=In Arizona County Where Latinos Have an Edge, So Did Trump |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/yuma-county-arizona-latinos-trump.html |access-date=February 10, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> However, their margins of victory have been reduced in recent years as the county has rapidly grown in population and become majority-Hispanic. [[Donald Trump]] only won the county by 560 votes over [[Hillary Clinton]] in the [[2016 United States presidential election in Arizona|presidential election of 2016]]. However, Trump's margin did improve to over 4,000 votes as he won the county again in [[2020 United States presidential election in Arizona|2020]] over [[Joe Biden]]. 

In [[2024 United States presidential election in Arizona|2024]], Trump won Yuma County by over 20 percentage points against [[Kamala Harris]], the best performance by a Republican since [[Ronald Reagan]] in [[1984 United States presidential election in Arizona|1984]].  
{{PresHead|place=Yuma County, Arizona|source=<ref>{{cite web|title = Dave Leip's Atlas of United States Presidential Elections | access-date = June 11, 2011 | url = http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|40,745|26,823|767|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|36,534|32,210|1,328|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|25,165|24,605|3,240|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|23,352|18,059|662|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|24,577|18,559|636|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|22,184|16,032|313|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|15,708|12,055|889|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|13,013|12,267|2,391|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|11,652|10,367|6,026|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|13,253|8,952|275|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|13,848|6,458|175|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|13,393|6,014|1,738|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|9,324|7,998|558|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|9,596|4,755|755|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|6,856|5,770|2,007|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|6,548|7,857|5|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|5,547|6,642|15|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|5,330|5,776|7|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,761|4,444|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,324|4,483|157|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,831|3,472|10|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,870|4,138|23|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|976|3,428|195|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,162|3,463|205|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,328|1,589|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,280|851|935|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,606|1,177|0|Arizona}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|727|1,322|191|Arizona}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|90|424|553|Arizona}}