Editing Clallam County, Washington (section)

==Politics==
Modern Clallam County is generally regarded as a competitive area politically. It was a [[bellwether]], holding the longest record, until 2024, for [[List of election bellwether counties in the United States|predicting official presidential election winners]] in the entire country.<ref name="king5">{{Cite web |title=Clallam County continues its streak of picking every presidential winner since 1980 |url=https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/clallam-county-has-picked-every-presidential-winner-since-1980/281-802bd344-c6db-41eb-9d38-94bdffc1638e |access-date=November 8, 2020 |website=king5.com |language=en-US}}</ref> In every election since [[1920 United States presidential election in Washington (state)|1920]], except for [[1968 United States presidential election in Washington (state)|1968]], [[1976 United States presidential election in Washington (state)|1976]], and [[2024 United States presidential election in Washington (state)|2024]], it has voted for the presidential election winner. Since 2004, the county has seen a Democratic trend, and even though it flipped Republican in 2016, this was largely due to a stronger third-party presence that year. In 2020 it supported Democrat Joe Biden with a majority, and in 2024 it defied the national average when it shifted further to the left, giving [[Kamala Harris]] the best performance by a Democrat since [[Lyndon B. Johnson|Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964.

It voted the winning candidate in every presidential election from [[1980 United States presidential election|1980]] to [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]], the longest streak of any county in the country before ending its streak in 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What does Clallam County know? Voters just chose a winner for the tenth straight election |url=https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2020/11/07/clallam-county-extends-three-decade-streak-picking-president-elect/6182335002/ |access-date=November 8, 2020 |website=kitsapsun.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="king5" /> Clallam County also voted for [[Bob Ferguson (politician)|Bob Ferguson]], [[Nicholas W. Brown (lawyer)|Nick Brown]], and [[Emily Randall]] in the [[2024 Washington gubernatorial election]], the [[2024 Washington Attorney General election]], and the [[2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Washington#District 6|2024 Washington's 6th congressional district election]]. Ferguson won the county for the first time since the [[2000 Washington gubernatorial election]], despite underperforming Kamala Harris, indicating a potential leftward shift in the county.<ref name="first time"/>

Democratic candidates are generally most successful in the county seat and largest city, [[Port Angeles]], which casts a significant number of votes. The city of [[Sequim, Washington|Sequim]] and its general vicinity (excepting newer developments such as [[Bell Hill, Washington|Bell Hill]] which tend to be Republican) is generally considered a battleground area. The [[Forks, Washington|Forks]] area is generally Republican, with the exception of American Indian areas. The [[Makah people|Makah]] tribe areas around Neah Bay are some of the most Democratic areas in the state. Otherwise, with the exception of a few locations (such as [[Blyn, Washington|Blyn]] and [[Jamestown, Washington|Jamestown]] near Sequim), unincorporated Clallam County has a strong Republican lean.

{{PresHead|place=Clallam County, Washington|whig=no|source1=<ref name="atlas">{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=April 5, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 686 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 610 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 36 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur Reimer]] received 13 votes.</ref>}}
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