Editing Charlotte County, Florida (section)

==Government and politics==

[[File:Charlotte County Fire & EMS at Hospital.jpg|thumb|Charlotte County Fire & EMS apparatus at [[Fawcett Memorial Hospital]]]]
The county is governed by a five-person Commission, all of them elected to represent districts within the county for a four-year term. The elections are partisan according to political party affiliation and primaries are held months earlier in the event there are numerous candidates. All registered voters in the county are allowed to vote for a candidate Commissioner in each the five districts, not just the voters living in a particular district.

The five current Commissioners for Charlotte County, Florida and terms of office expirations:
* Ken Doherty (R), District 1, November 3, 2020<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://enr.electionsfl.org/CHA/Summary/1621/|title=Summary Results - Election Night Reporting|website=enr.electionsfl.org|language=en|access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref>
* Christopher Constance (R), District 2, November 8, 2022<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://enr.electionsfl.org/CHA/Summary/1968/|title=Summary Results - Election Night Reporting|website=enr.electionsfl.org|language=en|access-date=November 7, 2018}}</ref>
* Bill Truex (R) District 3, November 3, 2020<ref name="auto"/>
* Stephen R. Deutsch (R) District 4, November 8, 2022<ref name="auto1"/>
* Joe Tiseo (R) District 5, November 3, 2020<ref name="auto"/>

Charlotte County, as is typical for the southwestern Florida coast, became and remained a solidly Republican county in the years following the [[World War II|Second World War]]. No Democrat has won the county since [[Lyndon Johnson]] did so during his [[1964 United States presidential election|1964 landslide]],<ref>Sullivan, Robert David; [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/unconventional-wisdom/how-red-and-blue-map-evolved-over-past-century ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’]; ''America Magazine'' in ''The National Catholic Review''; June 29, 2016</ref> the only time a Democrat has carried the county since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1944. In the last 60 years, [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 and 1996 was the only Democrat not being outvoted by an absolute majority due to the appeal of [[Ross Perot]]. Charlotte resisted [[George Wallace]] in the [[1968 United States presidential election|1968 election]] to still return an absolute Republican majority, unlike several neighboring counties.
{{PresHead|place=Charlotte County, Florida|whig=no|source1=<ref>David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=2016&fips=12&f=1&off=0&elect=0 2016 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Florida by County] (and earlier election years)</ref>}}
<!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} -->
{{PresRow|2024|Republican|82,480|40,450|1,188|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|73,243|42,273|1,042|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|60,218|33,445|3,524|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|47,996|35,906|1,021|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|45,205|39,031|1,263|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|44,428|34,256|1,102|Florida}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|35,428|29,646|1,826|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|27,847|27,121|8,059|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|24,311|22,907|14,846|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|28,893|15,974|292|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|27,486|11,305|2|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|20,486|9,769|1,445|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|12,703|10,300|330|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|12,888|3,874|55|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|6,056|3,647|2,270|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,163|4,831|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,026|1,941|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,589|929|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,134|795|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|559|520|189|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|404|789|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|407|910|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|548|782|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|396|954|0|Florida}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|593|441|30|Florida}}
{{PresFoot|1924|Democratic|167|321|47|Florida}}

=== Voter Registration ===
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="4" |Voter Registration and Party Membership as of August 31, 2024:<ref>{{cite web|date=April 20, 2022|title=Sarasota County, FL : Supervisor of Elections|url=https://dos.myflorida.com/elections/data-statistics/voter-registration-statistics/voter-registration-reports/voter-registration-by-county-and-party/|access-date=April 20, 2022|website=Sarasota County, FL : Supervisor of Elections|agency=SOE Software Corporation}}</ref>
|-
! colspan="2" |Party
!Number of Votes
!Percentage
|-
| {{party color cell|Republican Party (United States)}}
|[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|78,449
|51.23%
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (United States)}}
| No Party Affiliation
|37,196
|24.29%
|-
| {{party color cell|Democratic Party (United States)}}
|[[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
|31,980
|20.88%
|-
|
|Minor parties
|5,506
|3.60%
|-
! colspan="2" |Total
!153,131
!100.0%
|}