Editing Hamilton County, Indiana (section)

==Politics==
The county is located in [[Indiana's 5th congressional district]], which is currently (2022) represented by [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Victoria Spartz]].

Hamilton County has long been reckoned as a classic [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] suburban stronghold. [[Woodrow Wilson]] remains the only Democratic presidential candidate to carry Hamilton County, a feat he accomplished in 1912, when [[Theodore Roosevelt]]'s third party candidacy split the Republican vote and allowed Wilson to carry the county with a slim plurality over incumbent President [[William H. Taft]].<ref>[http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/comparemaps.php?year=2008&fips=18&f=1&off=0&elect=0 David Leip's Presidential Atlas (Maps for Indiana by election)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081130204636/http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/comparemaps.php?year=2008&fips=18&f=1&off=0&elect=0|date=November 30, 2008}} Results prior to 1960 available through subscription only</ref> Otherwise, the county has reliably voted Republican in every presidential race since 1856, prior to which it supported the Whig candidate in every election of the [[Second Party System]].

In modern political history, the county rejected [[Franklin Roosevelt]] in all four of his bids for president and [[Barry Goldwater]] easily carried the county in 1964 with 61 percent of the vote. In 2018, Senator [[Joe Donnelly]] came within 10 percent of winning the county, winning 44.4% of the vote in his [[2018 US Senate election in Indiana|re-election loss]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Indiana Election Results 2018|url=https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/indiana/|website=Politico}}</ref>

In 2020, Democrat [[Joe Biden]] won 45.4% of the vote in the county, while Donald Trump won 52.2% of the vote. It was the first time since 1936 that a Democrat even managed 40 percent of the county's vote, and only the second time in 88 years that a Republican had won the county by fewer than 10 points. Biden carried both Carmel and Fishers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Shambaugh|first=Ann Marie|date=November 9, 2020|title=Biden earned more than half of presidential votes in Carmel|url=https://www.youarecurrent.com/2020/11/09/biden-earned-more-than-half-of-presidential-votes-in-carmel/|website=Current}}</ref> 

In 2024, [[Kamala Harris]] improved slightly on Biden's performance, winning 46% of the vote in the county. This the highest percentage of the vote ever won by a Democratic presidential nominee despite Harris losing the presidential election, while Trump received 52% of the vote. 

{{PresHead|place=Hamilton County, Indiana|whig=yes|source1=<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323225526/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|archive-date=March 23, 2018}}</ref>|source2=<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burnham |first1=Walter Dean |title=Presidential Ballots, 1836-1893 |date=1955 |publisher=Johns Hopkins Press |location=Baltimore |pages=396–97 |url=https://archive.org/details/presidentialball00burn/page/396/mode/2up}}</ref>|source3=<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dubin |first1=Michael J. |title=United States Presidential Elections, 1788-1860 |date=2002 |publisher=McFarland & Company |location=Jefferson, N.C. |pages=33, 43, 53}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2020|Republican|101,587|88,390|4,600|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|87,404|57,263|11,291|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|90,747|43,796|2,546|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|78,401|49,704|1,174|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|77,887|26,388|631|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|56,372|18,002|1,552|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|42,792|14,153|4,674|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|34,622|10,215|10,597|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|36,654|8,853|108|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|30,254|6,364|143|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|26,218|7,036|2,073|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|21,828|7,857|273|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|20,247|4,151|72|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|14,250|4,586|2,233|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|12,060|7,553|68|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|13,409|5,511|64|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|11,220|4,974|77|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|10,843|4,564|153|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|7,521|4,384|202|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|8,297|4,101|162|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|8,931|4,791|75|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|7,323|5,396|151|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|7,100|5,999|277|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|7,960|3,611|74|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|7,463|3,785|250|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|7,897|4,280|350|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|3,951|2,799|462|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,247|2,463|2,342|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,421|2,947|460|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|4,832|2,469|309|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|4,788|2,931|449|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|4,643|2,947|171|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|3,627|2,492|533|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|3,599|2,412|411|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|3,565|2,357|310|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|3,638|2,093|166|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1876|Republican|3,259|1,897|186|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1872|Republican|3,180|1,462|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1868|Republican|3,242|1,278|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1864|Republican|3,225|1,093|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1860|Republican|2,195|1,144|102|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1856|Republican|1,748|1,185|38|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1852|Whig|971|961|401|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1848|Whig|809|805|317|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1844|Whig|859|766|139|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1840|Whig|972|688|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1836|Whig|569|262|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1832|Whig|251|166|0|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1828|Whig|156|55|0|Indiana}}
{{PresFoot|1824|Democratic-Republican|10|4|31|Indiana}}