Editing Hamilton County, New York (section)

==Government and politics==
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Hamilton County has long been one of the most consistently Republican counties in New York. Since [[Woodrow Wilson]] carried the county in [[1916 United States presidential election in New York|1916]],<ref>The Political Graveyard; [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/HA-votes.html Hamilton County, New York]</ref> the Republican candidate has lost only once, when [[Barry Goldwater]] in [[1964 United States presidential election in New York|1964]] failed to win a single county in the state. The county was Goldwater's third strongest in the state however.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/datagraph.php?year=1964&fips=36&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - Data Graphs}}</ref> In the [[2008 United States presidential election in New York|2008 U.S. presidential election]], [[John McCain]] carried Hamilton County by a 26.9% margin over [[Barack Obama]], with Obama winning statewide by a virtually equal margin over McCain; Republican nominee [[Mitt Romney]] won the county over President Obama in the 2012 election, too.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref> Hamilton gave McCain the highest margin of victory in the state.<ref>{{Cite web |title=County Results - Election Center 2008 |url=http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/county/#val=NYP00p3 |website=CNN}}</ref>

It was the only county won by [[Howard Mills]] over incumbent [[Chuck Schumer]] in the [[2004 United States Senate election in New York|2004 U.S. Senate election]]. It also voted for [[John Faso]] over [[Eliot Spitzer]] for governor in [[New York gubernatorial election, 2006|2006]], and for [[John Spencer (mayor)|John Spencer]] 55.5%-42.1% over incumbent [[Hillary Clinton]] for the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] in [[United States Senate election in New York, 2006|2006]], despite Faso and Spencer both losing in landslides statewide. It was one of only a handful of counties outside [[Western New York]] to have voted for [[Carl Paladino]] over eventual winner [[Andrew Cuomo]] for [[Governor of New York|Governor]] in [[2010 New York gubernatorial election|2010]].

Democrat [[Kirsten Gillibrand]], however, won the county in her bid to be elected for a full term to the U.S. Senate in [[2012 United States Senate election in New York|2012]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hamiltoncountyexpress.com/news/11142012_gillibrand|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306025413/http://hamiltoncountyexpress.com/news/11142012_gillibrand|title=The county backs Gillibrand|archive-date=March 6, 2016}}</ref>