Editing Costilla County, Colorado (section)

==Politics==
Costilla County has a heavily Hispanic population and has long been a Democratic stronghold. The last Republican to carry the county was [[Calvin Coolidge]] in 1924,<ref>[http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1924.htm Geographie Electorale]</ref> and the last to gain an absolute majority [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912 – an era when most votes in these high valley counties were done for the voters by [[political machine]]s. In the last eleven Presidential elections the Democratic candidate has consistently received over sixty percent of the county's vote and four times won over seventy percent. In recent years, however, Republicans have gained ground in Costilla County and other areas of southern Colorado, with Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]] breaking 40% of the vote while holding Democratic candidate [[Kamala Harris]] below 60% of the vote, both for the first time since 1972. This was the strongest shift toward the Republican party out of all Colorado counties in this election, mirroring the trends seen in other majority-Hispanic counties in the rest of the country.

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{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|1,121|1,698|26|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|930|1,518|56|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|707|1,475|33|Colorado}}
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{{PresRow|1904|Republican|917|506|22|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|884|453|14|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|96|2,388|8|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|526|0|303|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|507|383|8|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|498|484|0|Colorado}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|334|379|0|Colorado}}

In Colorado's first elections as a state in 1876, [[Auguste Lacome|Auguste Lacome (D)]] ran against [[William H. Meyer (Colorado politician)|William H. Meyer (R)]] for State Senate in Costilla County, then Colorado's 18th District. Meyer would later become the Lt. Governor of Colorado. Votes cast for “Locome” and “Lacompte” were included in the count for Lacome. Meyer carried the election 349–204.

It is part of [[Colorado's 3rd congressional district]], which has a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of R+7 and is represented by Republican [[Jeff Hurd (politician)|Jeff Hurd]]. In the [[Colorado Senate]], it is in [[Colorado's 6th Senate district|District 6]] and is represented by Republican [[Cleave Simpson]]. In the [[Colorado House of Representatives]], it is in District 62 and is represented by Democrat [[Matthew Martinez (Colorado politician)|Matthew Martinez]].