Editing Marin County, California (section)

=== Overview ===
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For most of the 20th century, Marin County was a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] stronghold in presidential elections. From 1880 until 1984, the only Democrats to win there were [[Woodrow Wilson]], [[Franklin Roosevelt]] and [[Lyndon Johnson]]. However, the brand of Republicanism prevailing in Marin County was historically a moderate one. Like most of the historically Republican suburbs of the Bay Area, it became friendlier to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] as the demographics of the area changed and the national party embraced social and religious conservatism. In 1984, it very narrowly voted for [[Walter Mondale]] and has supported the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since then. In the [[2024 United States presidential election in California|2024 presidential election]], Kamla Harris received 80.59% of the vote in Marin County, which was her highest vote share in any [[California counties|California county]], and the only one higher than notably liberal [[San Francisco|San Francisco County]].

{{PresHead|place=Marin 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=August 31, 2018}}</ref>|source2=<ref group=note>This total comprised 2,750 votes for [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]] (who was official Republican nominee in California), 733 votes for [[Socialist Party of America|Socialist]] [[Eugene V. Debs]] and 68 votes for [[Prohibition Party]] nominee [[Eugene W. Chafin]].</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|24,054|116,152|3,923|California}} 
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|24,612|128,288|2,930|California}} 
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|21,771|108,707|10,205|California}} 
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|30,880|99,896|3,955|California}} 
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|28,384|109,320|2,866|California}} 
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|34,378|99,070|1,877|California}} 
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|34,872|79,135|9,148|California}} 
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|32,714|67,406|16,020|California}} 
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|30,479|76,158|24,070|California}} 
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|46,855|69,394|1,671|California}} 
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|56,887|57,533|1,630|California}} 
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|49,678|39,231|19,598|California}} 
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|53,425|43,590|4,700|California}} 
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|54,123|47,414|2,346|California}} 
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|41,422|36,278|5,055|California}} 
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|28,682|46,462|220|California}} 
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|37,620|27,888|157|California}} 
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|33,792|17,301|151|California}} 
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|31,178|14,824|475|California}} 
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|18,747|12,540|1,568|California}} 
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|13,304|14,516|76|California}} 
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|10,974|11,365|301|California}} 
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,211|12,152|209|California}} 
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|6,480|9,764|752|California}} 
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|7,862|5,686|140|California}} 
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|5,780|656|4,364|California}} 
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,375|1,688|750|California}} 
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,328|3,789|530|California}} 
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|0|2,849|3,551|California}} 
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|2,732|983|288|California}} 
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|2,199|772|139|California}} 
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,681|904|59|California}} 
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|1,448|874|36|California}} 
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|1,186|949|78|California}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|936|802|36|California}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|851|727|9|California}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|761|561|23|California}}

Marin has voted for many gubernatorial candidates who went on to become high-profile national figures, including [[Richard Nixon]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Jerry Brown]], and [[Dianne Feinstein]].

On November 4, 2008, the citizens of Marin County voted strongly against [[California Proposition 8 (2008)|Proposition 8]], a constitutional amendment which eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry, by a 75.1 percent to 24.9 percent margin. The official tally was 103,341 against and 34,324 in favor.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv|title=Elections Department - County of Marin|website=Marincounty.org|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref> Only [[San Francisco County, California|San Francisco County]] voted against the measure by a wider margin (75.2% against).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=70720|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090219011551/http://www.sfgov.org/site/elections_index.asp?id=70720|url-status=dead|title=San Francisco Department of Elections. Election Summary: November 4, 2008.|archive-date=February 19, 2009|access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref>

According to the [[Secretary of State of California|California Secretary of State]], as of February 10, 2019, Marin County has 161,870 registered voters. Of those, 89,526 (55.31%) are registered Democrats, 23,380 (14.44%) are registered [[California Republican Party|Republicans]], 7,020 (4.35%) are registered with other political parties, and 41,908 (25.89%) have [[Decline to State|declined to state]] a political party.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/ror/ror-odd-year-2019/county.pdf|title=Report of Registration as of February 10, 2019 : Registration by County|website=Elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov|accessdate=March 1, 2022}}</ref> Democrats hold wide voter-registration majorities in all political subdivisions in Marin County. Democrats' largest registration advantage in Marin is in the town of [[Fairfax, California|Fairfax]], wherein there are only 344 Republicans (6.1%) out of 5,678 total voters compared to 3,758 Democrats (66.2%) and 1,276 voters who have declined to state a political party (22.5%).

The last time Marin elected a Republican to represent them in the United States House of Representatives was [[William S. Mailliard]] in 1972. The last competitive race for the U.S. House of Representatives in Marin was in 1982 when [[Barbara Boxer]] was first elected. The longest serving representative of Marin in congress was [[Clarence F. Lea]] who served in the [[United States House of Representatives|House]] from 1917 to 1949.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

Due to the dynamic nature of California's population, Marin's congressional district has changed numerous times over the decades. The county has been part of the [[California's 2nd congressional district|2nd congressional district]] of California since 2012; the only other time it was part of the 2nd district was 1902–12. It has also been part of the [[California's 1st congressional district|1st]] (1894–1902 and 1912–66), [[California's 3rd congressional district|3rd]] (1864–94), [[California's 5th congressional district|5th]] (1974–82), and the [[California's 6th congressional district|6th]] (1972–74 and 1982–2012). The only time the county has not been in a single congressional district was between 1966 and 1972, when it was divided between the northern half in the 1st district and the southern half in the 6th district.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}