Editing Wyoming County, New York (section)

===Politics===
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Wyoming County is extremely conservative. In state and national politics, Wyoming County is one of the most [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] counties in New York, a state that characteristically votes [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]]. In both the [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]] and [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 U.S. presidential elections]], it was the second-reddest county in New York, behind [[Hamilton County, New York|Hamilton County]]. In fact, the only Democrat to carry the county since [[American Civil War|the Civil War]] has been [[Lyndon Baines Johnson]] in [[United States presidential election in New York, 1964|1964]], during an election when no county in the Empire State supported Republican [[Barry Goldwater]].<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 90, 263 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> In [[2004 United States presidential election in New York|2004]], [[George W. Bush]] carried Wyoming County by a 30.9 percent margin over [[John Kerry]], with Kerry carrying the state by an 18.3 percent margin. However, Senator [[Chuck Schumer]] [[2004 United States Senate election in New York|concurrently won]] the county very narrowly; this was the last time that Wyoming County voted Democratic in a statewide federal election. In [[2008 United States presidential election in New York|2008]], [[John McCain]] won the county by a 26.1 percent margin over [[Barack Obama]], with Obama defeating McCain statewide by 26.7 percent. In [[United States Senate election in New York, 2006|New York's 2006 U.S. Senatorial election]], Wyoming County voted for [[John Spencer (mayor)|John Spencer]] by a 4% margin over [[Hillary Clinton]], with Clinton being re-elected by a 36% margin over Spencer.<ref>[http://www.uselectionatlas.org/ U.S. Election Atlas]</ref> In [[2010 United States Senate election in New York|2010]], Wyoming County was one of only three counties to favor Republican Jay Townsend over Schumer. In the [[2010 United States Senate special election in New York|Senate Special election that same year]], the county favored Republican [[Joe DioGuardi]] over the Democratic incumbent, [[Kirsten Gillibrand]]. In [[2012 United States Senate election in New York|2012]], Wyoming County again selected a Republican for this seat, being one of only two counties (the other being neighboring [[Allegany County, New York|Allegany County]]) to vote in favor of Republican candidate [[Wendy Long]] rather than Gillibrand. In [[2016 United States Senate election in New York|2016]], Wyoming County once again favored Long as she lost statewide to Schumer. In [[2018 United States Senate election in New York|2018]], the county once again rejected Gillibrand by favoring Republican Chele Farley. From 2012 onward, Wyoming has been the most Republican out of all New York's counties at the federal level; in 2024, [[Donald Trump]] won the county with over 73% of the vote, the best Republican performance since [[Dwight D. Eisenhower|Dwight Eisenhower]] in 1956.<ref>https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/</ref>

In 2017 Jon Campbell of the ''[[Democrat & Chronicle]]'' wrote that the county "is solid [[Donald Trump|Trump]] Country."<ref>{{cite web|last=Campbell|first=Jon|url=https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/politics/albany/2017/01/12/trump-new-york-rural/96445434/|title=In his home state, rural New York is Trump Country|newspaper=[[Democrat & Chronicle]]|date=2017-01-12|access-date=2024-07-21}}</ref>