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==Politics== In the United States House of Representatives, Yamhill County lies in [[Oregon's 6th congressional district]], which also covers Polk County and portions of Marion, Clackamas, and Washington counties.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stites |first=Sam |date=May 3, 2022 |title=Oregon's new Congressional district draws a big field of candidates and big spending |url=https://www.opb.org/article/2022/05/03/oregon-6th-congressional-district-race-primary-election-2022/ |access-date=January 15, 2024 |publisher=Oregon Public Broadcasting}}</ref> In the [[Oregon State Senate]], the county is split between the 12th and 13th districts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Blue Book: State Senators by District |url=https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/state/legislative/senate-district.aspx |access-date=January 15, 2024 |publisher=Oregon Secretary of State}}</ref> Within the [[Oregon House of Representatives]], Yamhill County is part of the 23rd, 24th, and 26th districts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oregon Blue Book: State Representatives by District |url=https://sos.oregon.gov/blue-book/Pages/state/legislative/house-district.aspx |access-date=January 15, 2024 |publisher=Oregon Secretary of State}}</ref> Although located west of the Cascades, Yamhill has remained a Republican-leaning county in Presidential elections at the same time as other Western Oregon counties have become solidly to powerfully Democratic. No Democratic presidential candidate has won Yamhill County since [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s 1964 landslide, and the only other Democrats to carry the county since Oregon's statehood have been [[Franklin Roosevelt]] in 1940, 1936 and 1932, along with [[Woodrow Wilson]] in 1912 when the Republican vote was divided.<ref>Menendez, Albert J.; ''The Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004'', pp. 284-286 {{ISBN|0786422173}}</ref> Yamhill County is currently one of 11 counties in Oregon in which therapeutic psilocybin is legal. {{PresHead|place=Yamhill County, Oregon|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=April 11, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>|source2=<ref>{{Cite web |title=Our Campaigns - U.S. President |url=https://www.ourcampaigns.com/PresidentList.html |access-date=January 22, 2021}}</ref>|source3=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 885 votes, while Socialist [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 350 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 271 votes.</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|29,536|26,011|2,253|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|29,551|27,174|2,198|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|23,250|19,301|6,202|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|22,045|19,260|1,602|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|21,390|20,797|1,339|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|23,839|17,572|731|Oregon}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|19,193|14,254|2,092|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|13,900|13,078|4,157|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|11,693|11,148|8,565|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|13,321|11,423|644|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|15,797|9,450|104|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|12,054|8,694|2,820|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|9,885|8,881|854|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|9,660|6,008|841|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|7,936|5,487|862|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|5,508|8,949|6|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|8,295|5,528|6|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|8,555|5,253|0|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|9,332|4,472|68|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|6,379|4,794|355|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|5,672|5,067|298|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|5,545|5,566|96|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|3,443|5,366|787|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|3,584|4,798|337|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,248|2,382|91|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|3,803|2,015|1,342|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|4,102|2,353|440|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,010|3,342|676|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,312|1,378|1,506|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,980|1,246|408|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|2,004|652|518|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,583|1,235|203|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|1,782|1,736|124|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1892|Republican|1,469|682|1,032|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1888|Republican|1,298|994|97|Oregon}} {{PresRow|1884|Republican|1,184|1,034|49|Oregon}} {{PresFoot|1880|Republican|1,057|942|0|Oregon}}
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