Number of elections | 34 |
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Voted Democratic | 8 |
Voted Republican | 26 |
Voted other | 0 |
Voted for winning candidate | 24 |
Voted for losing candidate | 10 |
Elections in Wyoming |
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Since becoming a state on July 10, 1890,[1] Wyoming has been involved in 33 presidential elections in the United States, consistently holding 3 electoral votes. Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869, prior to joining the Union, and was the first place in America to do so. This was a significant milestone for women's suffrage and paved the way for other states to follow suit.[2] As a state with a strong Republican tradition, Wyoming tends to favor the Republican Party in presidential elections. It has consistently voted for Republican candidates in recent decades and is considered a reliably red state. When Wyoming participated in its first presidential election in 1892, Republican candidate Benjamin Harrison won the state with 50.52% of the vote. Harrison's Democratic opponent, Grover Cleveland, who went on to win the election, did not even appear on the ballot in Wyoming.[3][4][5]
Since the 1892 presidential election, the Democratic Party has rarely carried Wyoming in presidential elections. The Democrats' best showing in the state was in the 1936 presidential election, when President Franklin Roosevelt won a decisive victory nationwide.[6][7] The last time the Democratic Party won Wyoming in a presidential election was in 1964, when Lyndon B. Johnson won a landslide victory across the country.[8]
While much of Wyoming is a stronghold for the Republican Party, Teton County is an exception. In presidential elections since 1988, the county has only supported a Republican candidate once, in 2000, and is considered to be the most Democratic-leaning county in the state.[9]
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American Independent Party – (AI)
Democratic Party – (D)
Farmer-Labor Party – (FL)
Green Party – (G)
Independent candidate – (I)
Libertarian Party – (LI)
People's Party – (PO)
Progressive Party (1912) – (PR-1912)
Progressive Party (1924) – (PR-1924)
Progressive Party (1948) – (PR-1948)
Prohibition Party – (PRO)
Reform Party – (RE)
Republican Party – (R)
Union Party – (U)
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Benjamin Harrison (R) | 8,454 | 50.52% | James B. Weaver (PO) | 7,722 | 46.14% | John Bidwell (PRO) | 530 | 3.17% | 3 | |||||
William Jennings Bryan (D) | 10,861 | 51.49% | William McKinley (R) ‡ | 10,072 | 47.75% | Joshua Levering (PRO) | 159 | 0.75% | 3 | |||||
William McKinley (R) ‡ | 14,482 | 58.66% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 10,164 | 41.17% | Eugene V. Debs (SD) | 21 | 0.09% | 3 | |||||
Theodore Roosevelt (R) ‡ | 20,489 | 66.93% | Alton B. Parker (D) | 8,930 | 29.17% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 987 | 3.22% | 3 | |||||
William Howard Taft (R) ‡ | 20,846 | 55.43% | William Jennings Bryan (D) | 14,918 | 39.67% | Eugene V. Debs (S) | 1,715 | 4.56% | 3 | |||||
Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡ | 15,310 | 36.2% | William Howard Taft (R) | 14,560 | 34.42% | Theodore Roosevelt (PR-1912) | 9,232 | 21.83% | 3 | |||||
Woodrow Wilson (D) ‡ | 28,316 | 54.62% | Charles Evans Hughes (R) | 21,698 | 41.86% | Allan Benson (S) | 1,453 | 2.8% | 3 | |||||
Warren G. Harding (R) ‡ | 35,091 | 64.15% | James M. Cox (D) | 17,429 | 31.86% | Parley P. Christensen (FL) | 2,180 | 3.99% | 3 | |||||
Calvin Coolidge (R) ‡ | 41,858 | 52.39% | Robert M. La Follette (PR-1924) | 25,174 | 31.51% | John W. Davis (D) | 12,868 | 16.11% | 3 | |||||
Herbert Hoover (R) ‡ | 52,748 | 63.68% | Al Smith (D) | 29,299 | 35.37% | Norman Thomas (S) | 788 | 0.95% | 3 | |||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 54,370 | 56.07% | Herbert Hoover (R) | 39,583 | 40.82% | Norman Thomas (S) | 2,829 | 2.92% | 3 | |||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 62,624 | 64.59% | Alf Landon (R) | 38,739 | 39.95% | William Lemke (U) | 1,653 | 1.7% | 3 | |||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 59,287 | 52.82% | Wendell Willkie (R) | 52,633 | 46.89% | Roger W. Babson (U) | 172 | 0.15% | 3 | |||||
Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 51,921 | 51.23% | Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) ‡ | 49,419 | 48.77% | –
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Harry S. Truman (D) ‡ | 52,354 | 51.62% | Thomas E. Dewey (R) | 47,947 | 47.27% | Henry A. Wallace (PR-1948) | 931 | 0.92% | 3 | |||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 81,049 | 62.71% | Adlai Stevenson II (D) | 47,934 | 37.09% | Stuart Hamblen (PRO) | 194 | 0.15% | 3 | |||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) ‡ | 74,573 | 60.08% | Adlai Stevenson II (D) | 49,554 | 39.92% | –
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Richard Nixon (R) | 77,451 | 55.01% | John F. Kennedy (D) ‡ | 63,331 | 44.99% | –
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Lyndon B. Johnson (D) ‡ | 80,718 | 56.56% | Barry Goldwater (R) | 61,998 | 43.44% | –
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Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 70,927 | 55.76% | Hubert Humphrey (D) | 45,173 | 35.51% | George Wallace (AI) | 11,105 | 8.73% | 3 | |||||
Richard Nixon (R) ‡ | 100,464 | 69.01% | George McGovern (D) | 44,358 | 30.47% | John G. Schmitz (Write-in) | 748 | 0.51% | 3 | |||||
Gerald Ford (R) | 92,717 | 59.3% | Jimmy Carter (D) ‡ | 62,239 | 39.81% | Eugene McCarthy (Write-in) | 624 | 0.4% | 3 | |||||
Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 110,700 | 62.64% | Jimmy Carter (D) | 49,427 | 27.97% | John B. Anderson (I) | 12,072 | 6.83% | 3 | |||||
Ronald Reagan (R) ‡ | 133,241 | 70.51% | Walter Mondale (D) | 53,370 | 28.24% | David Bergland (LI) | 2,357 | 1.25% | 3 | |||||
George H. W. Bush (R) ‡ | 106,867 | 60.53% | Michael Dukakis (D) | 67,113 | 38.01% | Ron Paul (LI) | 2,026 | 1.15% | 3 | |||||
George H. W. Bush (R) | 79,347 | 39.7% | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 68,160 | 34.1% | Ross Perot (I) | 51,263 | 25.65% | 3 | |||||
Bob Dole (R) | 105,388 | 49.7% | Bill Clinton (D) ‡ | 77,934 | 36.75% | Ross Perot (RE) | 25,928 | 12.23% | 3 | |||||
George W. Bush[c] (R) ‡ | 147,947 | 67.76% | Al Gore (D) | 60,481 | 27.7% | Ralph Nader (G) | 4,625 | 2.12% | 3 | |||||
George W. Bush[c] (R) ‡ | 167,629 | 68.86% | John Kerry (D) | 70,776 | 29.07% | Ralph Nader (RE) | 2,741 | 1.13% | 3 | |||||
John McCain (R) | 164,958 | 64.78% | Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 82,868 | 32.54% | Ralph Nader (I) | 2,525 | 0.99% | 3 | |||||
Mitt Romney (R) | 170,962 | 68.64% | Barack Obama (D) ‡ | 69,286 | 27.82% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 5,326 | 2.14% | 3 | |||||
Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 174,419 | 68.17% | Hillary Clinton (D) | 55,973 | 21.88% | Gary Johnson (LI) | 13,287 | 5.19% | 3 | |||||
Donald Trump (R) | 193,559 | 69.94% | Joe Biden (D) ‡ | 73,491 | 26.55% | Jo Jorgensen (LI) | 5,768 | 2.08% | 3 | |||||
Donald Trump (R) ‡ | 192,633 | 71.6% | Kamala Harris (D) | 69,527 | 25.84% | Chase Oliver (LI) | 4,193 | 1.56% | 3 |