Editing Zapata County, Texas (section)

==Government and politics==
In the majority of U.S. presidential elections, Zapata County supported [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidates. However, on three occasions, it gave record-setting margins to Republican presidential nominees, when it delivered the highest percentage of the vote of any county in the nation to them. First in [[1896 United States presidential election|1896]], when it gave 96.3% of the vote to [[William McKinley]], though he lost Texas as a whole (with 30.8% of the statewide popular vote), but won the national election (with 51.0% of the nationwide popular vote). The second time in [[1908 United States presidential election|1908]], when [[William Howard Taft]] won 99.1% of the vote in the county, despite losing the state to Democrat [[William Jennings Bryan]] (and receiving just 22.4% of the statewide vote), but winning the national election (with 51.6% of the nationwide popular vote). The third and final time was in [[1912 United States presidential election|1912]], when it again gave then-incumbent President Taft 80.9% with it being his best county in the nation, but against the state and nation's preference for the Democratic victor, [[Woodrow Wilson]] (in the popular vote, Taft only received 9.5% statewide and 23.2% nationwide).

It voted Republican for President ([[Warren G. Harding]]) in 1920, and then consistently voted Democratic until [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], when Republican [[Donald Trump]] defeated Democrat [[Joe Biden]] 52%-47%, about the same as the statewide margin.<ref>{{Cite web|title=President Donald J. Trump narrowly wins Zapata County|url=http://www.krgv.com/news/president-donald-j-trump-narrowly-wins-zapata-county/|website=KRGV}}</ref> Zapata was the most Hispanic county to vote for Trump in 2020, as well as the county with the lowest non-Hispanic white population to do so. In 2024, this trend continued, with Trump receiving nearly 61% of the vote in the county.

{{PresHead|place=Zapata County, Texas|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 3, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|2,970|1,877|24|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,033|1,826|19|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|1,029|2,063|50|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|997|2,527|19|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|919|1,939|8|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|1,228|1,662|8|Texas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|953|1,638|25|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|521|1,786|143|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|866|2,052|331|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|958|2,171|6|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,214|1,577|10|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|874|1,218|39|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|462|1,216|4|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|695|768|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|251|909|52|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|135|1,009|3|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|260|675|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|637|886|1|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|526|616|1|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|414|632|1|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|43|501|3|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|495|784|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|34|282|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|24|271|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|19|296|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|197|300|1|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|98|50|0|Texas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|214|26|0|Texas}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|199|0|0|Texas}}