Editing Montrose County, Colorado (section)

==Politics==
Montrose is a staunch Republican county. It has not been won by a Democratic presidential nominee since [[Lyndon Johnson]]‘s 1964 landslide – indeed since then, no Democrat has managed forty percent of the county's vote. The county has leaned Republican ever since 1920; although before this, it did tend to vote Democratic between 1896 and 1916 except during the landslide loss of [[Alton B. Parker]] in 1904.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|16,704|8,354|568|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|16,770|7,687|465|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|14,382|5,466|1,338|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|13,552|6,138|440|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|12,199|6,495|459|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|11,218|4,776|225|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|9,266|4,041|908|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|6,730|4,019|1,490|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|4,847|3,713|3,163|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|6,012|3,748|233|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|7,162|2,864|147|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|6,685|2,232|883|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|4,838|3,164|280|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,571|1,870|618|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,547|2,394|771|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,678|4,009|22|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,040|2,861|24|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,054|2,461|19|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,279|2,037|55|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,473|2,544|99|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,952|2,258|27|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,744|3,013|98|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,248|2,938|239|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,992|2,516|350|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,873|1,297|101|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,077|1,239|1,217|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,225|1,522|311|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,315|2,571|293|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|631|1,478|1,643|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|1,193|1,461|428|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,306|922|305|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|658|1,038|138|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|182|1,348|34|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|301|0|562|Colorado}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|512|372|36|Colorado}}
{{PresFoot|1884|Republican|420|230|20|Colorado}}

In other offices, Montrose also is strongly Republican. The last Democratic Senatorial candidate it backed was [[Ben Nighthorse Campbell]], who later shifted to the Republican Party, in the 1992 election.<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1992&fips=8&f=0&off=3&elect=0&class=3 1992 Senatorial General Election Results – Colorado]</ref>  Montrose County did back [[Constitution Party (United States)|Constitution Party]] nominee [[Tom Tancredo]] in [[Colorado gubernatorial election, 2010|the 2010 gubernatorial election]],<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2010&off=5&elect=0&fips=8&f=0 2010 Gubernatorial General Election Results]</ref> and [[Bill Ritter]] did win 46 percent [[Colorado gubernatorial election, 2006|in 2006]],<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2006&off=5&elect=0&fips=8&f=0 2006 Gubernatorial General Election Results]</ref> but [[Roy Romer]] in 1990 remains the last Democratic candidate for governor to win Montrose County.<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1990&off=5&elect=0&fips=8&f=0 1990 Gubernatorial General Election Results]</ref>