Editing Washington County, New York (section)

==Politics==
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|+ Gubernatorial elections results<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?fips=36&f=0&off=99|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections – Sate Data|first=David|last=Leip|website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>
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! Year
! [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
! [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]
! [[Third Party (United States)|Third parties]]
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[2022 New York gubernatorial election|2022]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''63.96%''' ''14,155''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|35.91% ''7,946''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.13% ''29''
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[2018 New York gubernatorial election|2018]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''62.76%''' ''12,879''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|31.24% ''6,411''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|6.00% ''1,232''
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[2014 New York gubernatorial election|2014]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''58.26%''' ''8,699''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|32.59% ''4,866''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|9.15% ''1,367''
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2010 New York gubernatorial election|2010]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|42.03% ''7,669''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''51.98%''' ''9,485''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.99% ''1,093''
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''[[2006 New York gubernatorial election|2006]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|38.62% ''7,024''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|'''59.51%''' ''10,822''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.87% ''340''
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|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''[[2002 New York gubernatorial election|2002]]'''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Republican}}|'''56.50%''' ''9,491''
|  style="text-align:center;" {{Party shading/Democratic}}|22.42% ''3,767''
|  style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|21.07% ''3,541''
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Prior to 1996, Washington County was a Republican stronghold, with the only time between 1884 and 1992 that a Republican presidential candidate failed to win the county being 1964 when [[Barry Goldwater]] lost every county in New York in his statewide and national landslide loss. Since 1996, it has become a bellwether county, but Republican candidate margins of victory have been greater than those by Democratic candidates and broke its bellwether streak in 2020 when [[Donald Trump]] won the county. In his 2020 performance, Trump received the highest percentage of the vote for a Republican since 1988 when [[George H. W. Bush]] received 62 percent, proceeding to expand his success further four years later. No Democrat aside from [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in the aforementioned 1964 election has managed to win majority of the county's votes.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|17,268|11,224|224|New York}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|15,941|11,565|632|New York}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|13,610|9,098|1,820|New York}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|11,085|11,523|487|New York}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|12,533|12,741|456|New York}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|13,827|10,624|652|New York}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|12,596|9,641|1,318|New York}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|8,954|9,572|4,018|New York}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|10,305|8,429|6,401|New York}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|14,103|8,201|211|New York}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|16,580|5,909|74|New York}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|12,835|7,144|1,927|New York}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|13,946|7,262|116|New York}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|16,136|5,677|51|New York}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|12,694|6,806|1,069|New York}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|8,160|13,826|7|New York}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|15,037|8,274|6|New York}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|18,449|4,817|0|New York}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|17,551|6,210|22|New York}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|13,975|6,017|472|New York}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|13,861|7,100|31|New York}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|15,960|7,977|38|New York}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|15,186|7,713|418|New York}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|14,478|7,512|194|New York}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|15,499|7,221|443|New York}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|13,774|4,321|1,169|New York}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|13,647|4,124|322|New York}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|7,310|3,907|246|New York}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|4,593|3,555|3,072|New York}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|7,933|3,593|561|New York}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|8,324|3,517|514|New York}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|8,209|3,357|446|New York}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|8,139|3,239|397|New York}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|6,794|3,731|885|New York}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|8,023|4,284|386|New York}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|7,337|4,222|370|New York}}
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