Editing Franklin County, Vermont (section)

==Politics==
In [[1828 United States presidential election in Vermont|1828]], Franklin County was won by [[National Republican Party]] candidate [[John Quincy Adams]]

In [[1832 United States presidential election in Vermont|1832]], the county was won by [[Anti-Masonic Party]] candidate [[William Wirt (Attorney General)|William Wirt]].

In [[1836 United States presidential election in Vermont|1836]], the county was won by [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] candidate [[Martin Van Buren]]

From [[William Henry Harrison]] in [[1840 United States presidential election in Vermont|1840]] to [[Winfield Scott]] in [[1852 United States presidential election in Vermont|1852]], the county would vote the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] candidates.

From [[John C. Frémont]] in [[1856 United States presidential election in Vermont|1856]] to [[Herbert Hoover]] in [[1928 United States presidential election in Vermont|1928]] (barring [[1912 United States presidential election in Vermont|1912]], where the county was won by [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]] candidate and former president [[Theodore Roosevelt]]), the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] would have a 72-year winning streak in the county.

In [[1932 United States presidential election in Vermont|1932]], the county was won by Democratic candidate [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and would be won by him in all four of his presidential runs from 1932 to [[1944 United States presidential election in Vermont|1944]]. During that time, Franklin County, along with [[Chittenden County, Vermont|Chittenden]] and [[Grand Isle County, Vermont|Grand Isle Counties]] would become Democratic enclaves in an otherwise Republican-voting Vermont. The county would also be won by [[Harry S. Truman]] in [[1948 United States presidential election in Vermont|1948]].

[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was able to win back Franklin County for the Republicans during the [[1952 United States presidential election in Vermont|1952]] and [[1956 United States presidential election in Vermont|1956 elections]].

The county would go to Democratic candidates [[John F. Kennedy]] in [[1960 United States presidential election in Vermont|1960]], [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in [[1964 United States presidential election in Vermont|1964]], and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in [[1968 United States presidential election in Vermont|1968]].

Incumbent President [[Richard Nixon]] would carry the county in [[1972 United States presidential election in Vermont|1972]] as would [[Gerald Ford]] in [[1976 United States presidential election in Vermont|1976]].

In [[1980 United States presidential election in Vermont|1980]] and [[1984 United States presidential election in Vermont|1984]], the county was won by Republican [[Ronald Reagan]], who would become the last Republican presidential candidate to win Franklin County.

Since [[Michael Dukakis]] won the county in [[1988 United States presidential election in Vermont|1988]], it has been won by Democratic candidates ever since.

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{{PresRow|1884|Republican|2,619|1,396|370|Vermont}}
{{PresRow|1880|Republican|3,018|1,652|354|Vermont}}
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