Editing Wendell, Massachusetts (section)

==Politics==
The town provided [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] nominee [[Jill Stein]] with her largest percentage of the vote statewide in both the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]] and [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]] presidential elections. Out of 557 votes cast in the town in 2012, Stein received 43 votes (7.72 percent, more than seven times her statewide percentage of 0.63). She received just 27 less votes than [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Mitt Romney]], who only got 70 votes in Wendell in his loss to [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Barack Obama]], who handily won the town with 427 votes (76.66 percent). [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] [[Gary Johnson]] finished fourth with 17 votes (3.05 percent).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/112698/|title=2012 President General Election - Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth}}</ref> Four years later in 2016, out of 584 total votes cast in the town, Stein received 48 (8.22 percent, more than five times of her statewide percentage of 1.43). [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] won the town with 402 votes (68.84 percent) over [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Donald J. Trump]], who received 104 votes (17.81 percent). [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] [[Gary Johnson]] received 21 votes (3.60 percent) and there were nine write-ins (1.54 percent).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/town.php?year=2016&fips=25&f=1&off=0&elect=0&datatype=town|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - City and Town Map}}</ref>

Four years later in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], the town produced the second-highest percentage of the vote in the state for [[Green Party of the United States|Green Party]] nominee [[Howie Hawkins]]. Out of 614 total votes cast in the town, Hawkins garnered nine votes (1.47 percent). [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian]] [[Jo Jorgensen]] got 13 votes (2.12 percent) to finish third. [[Joe Biden]] won the town with 487 votes (79.32 percent) over then-[[President of the United States|President]] [[Donald J. Trump|Trump]], who received 105 votes (17.10 percent).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/140751/|title=2020 President General Election - Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth}}</ref>

The town awarded U.S. Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] of neighboring [[Vermont]] with his highest percentage of the vote statewide in the [[2020 Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary]]. Out of 403 votes cast, Sanders received 205 (50.87 percent) votes in front of home-state U.S. Senator [[Elizabeth Warren]] with 110 votes (27.30 percent). former [[President of the United States|President]] Joe Biden notched 68 votes (16.87 percent) in the town to come in third ahead of former [[Mayor of New York City]] [[Michael Bloomberg]] with 15 votes (3.72 percent). [[Pete Buttigieg]] and U.S. Senator [[Amy Klobuchar]] of [[Minnesota]] clinched two votes a piece with one vote going to former U.S. Representative [[Tulsi Gabbard]] of [[Hawaii]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://electionstats.state.ma.us/elections/view/140751/|title=2020 President Democratic Primary - Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth}}</ref> Wendell was the only town in Massachusetts to be won with a majority (more than 50 percent) of its vote by a presidential candidate in that year's Democratic primary.