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==Politics== [[File:2020 Presidential Election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.svg|thumb|2020 presidential election by township and city:<br/>Biden: {{legend0|#86b6f2ff|50β60%}} {{legend0|#4389e3ff|60β70%}} {{legend0|#1666cbff|70β80%}} {{legend0|#0645b4ff|80β90%}} {{legend0|#002b84ff|90β100%}}<br/>Trump: {{legend0|#f2b3beff|40β50%}} {{legend0|#e27f90ff|50β60%}} {{legend0|#cc2f4aff|60β70%}}]] Like many major urban counties, Cuyahoga County is heavily Democratic. Given its New England heritage and diverse population, plus union and labor involvement, the county often provides the Democratic Party with the largest margins in Ohio. In the 19th century, the Western Reserve, which Cleveland is the economic center of "probably the most intensely antislavery section of the country."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Letcher |first=John |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102721446 |title=Communication enclosing letters from the governor of Ohio relative to requisitions for fugitives from justice. |date=March 14, 1860 |series=Doc.No.LIX |location=Richmond, Virginia}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Hinton |first=Richard J. |url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/ack4822.0001.001 |title=John Brown and his men; with some account of the roads they traveled to reach Harper's Ferry, by Richard J. Hinton. |date=1894 |publisher=Boston: Funk & Wagnalls}}</ref> It last voted Republican at the presidential level in 1972, when [[Richard Nixon]] carried it with a plurality. The last Republican presidential candidate to win an absolute majority was [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in 1956. However, it has occasionally voted Republican in statewide landslides since then, such as for [[John Kasich]] in the [[2014 Ohio gubernatorial election|2014 gubernatorial election]] and for [[George Voinovich]] in the [[2004 United States Senate election in Ohio|2004 Senate election]]. Democratic strength is concentrated in the City of Cleveland and suburbs in eastern Cuyahoga County, such as Shaker Heights and Solon. Republican strength is concentrated in the southern Cuyahoga County suburbs, such as Strongsville and North Royalton. Suburbs in western Cuyahoga County, such as North Olmsted and Westlake tend to be more moderate. Since around 2016, formerly Democratic working-class suburbs such as Middleburg Heights and Parma have trended to the GOP, while formerly GOP upscale suburbs such as Bay Village and Chagrin Falls have trended Democratic.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2016/11/find_if_your_neighborhood_vote.html/|title=Find if your neighborhood voted for Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton; Cuyahoga County vote details|access-date=June 7, 2022|website=Cleveland.com|language=en-US|archive-date=July 4, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704152716/https://www.cleveland.com/datacentral/2016/11/find_if_your_neighborhood_vote.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{PresHead|place=Cuyahoga County, Ohio|source=<!-- <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=February 22, 2021}}</ref> --> }} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Democratic|195,165|376,385|9,965|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2020|Democratic|202,699|416,176|8,285|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2016|Democratic|184,212|398,276|26,391|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2012|Democratic|190,660|447,273|7,329|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|199,880|458,422|8,997|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2004|Democratic|221,600|448,503|3,674|Ohio}} {{PresRow|2000|Democratic|192,099|359,913|22,770|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|163,770|341,357|56,765|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|187,186|337,548|115,507|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1988|Democratic|242,439|353,401|5,277|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1984|Democratic|284,094|362,626|4,913|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1980|Democratic|254,883|307,448|52,351|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|255,594|349,186|18,442|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|329,493|317,670|12,588|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1968|Democratic|238,791|363,540|71,508|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|196,436|492,911|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|288,056|429,030|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|353,474|304,558|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|329,465|324,962|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|214,889|257,958|17,781|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|217,824|330,659|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|209,070|347,118|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|128,947|311,117|35,354|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|166,337|185,731|18,510|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|194,508|166,188|3,412|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|130,169|24,000|109,897|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|148,857|70,518|11,904|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|51,287|71,553|6,080|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|14,176|43,610|44,838|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|56,344|39,954|5,431|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|57,367|24,202|9,687|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|45,299|42,440|1,870|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|42,993|37,542|955|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1892|Democratic|26,657|29,543|2,214|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1888|Republican|25,994|23,949|1,103|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1884|Republican|24,052|18,764|797|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1880|Republican|22,123|15,130|463|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1876|Republican|18,198|14,425|340|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1872|Republican|14,451|8,033|184|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1868|Republican|12,582|7,933|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1864|Republican|10,009|5,864|0|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1860|Republican|8,686|4,814|408|Ohio}} {{PresRow|1856|Republican|6,360|4,446|296|Ohio}} |} {{U.S. SenHead|place=Cuyahoga County, Ohio|Seat=1|source=<ref>{{cite news |title=2024 Senate Election (Official Returns) |website=Commonwealth of Texas by county |date=November 5, 2024 |access-date=December 5, 2024 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/ohio-senate-results}}</ref>}} <!-- U.S. SenRow should be {{U.S. SenRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{U.S. SenRow|2024|Democratic|170,671|384,042|14,352|Ohio}} {{U.S. SenFoot}}
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