Democracy in Action P2020

WYOMING

3 Electoral Votes

Population
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Wyoming Secretary of State)

Total Resident Population, July 1, 2019 est.	578,759
Total Registration, Nov. 2020	268,837 >

Rep. 186,552 (69.39%) Dem. 48,423 (18.01%) Unaff. 31,277 (11.63%) Lib. 2,012 Const. 526 Other 47
Wyoming has: 23 counties.

Government
Governor: Mark Gordon (R) elected 2018.
State Legislature: Wyoming State Legislature House: 60 seats Senate: 30 seats
Local: Counties and Municipalities... NACO
U.S. House: 1R - L.Cheney (R)
U.S. Senate: Mike Enzi (R) retiring in 2020, John Barrasso (R) re-elected in 2018.

2020
U.S. Senate: Sen. Mike Enzi (R), first elected to the Senate in 1996, is retiring. Sixteen major party candidates ran in the Aug. 18 primaries. Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia Lummis (R) defeated zoology professor Merav Ben-David (D) by 198,100 votes (72.85%) to 72,766 (26.76%).
House: Rep. Liz Cheney (R), seeking a third term, easily defeated Lynnette Grey Bull (D), director of the Wind River/Department of Interior Land Buyback Program for Tribal Nation, Richard Brubaker (L) and Jeff Haggit (C).
State Legislature: 15 of 30 Senate seats and all 60 House seats are up. The Senate went from 27R, 3D to 28R, 2D and the House from 50R, 9D, 1I to 51R, 7D, 2o.
Ballot Measure: Constitutional Amendment A would have "remove[d] the constitutionally specified limit on the amount of debt a municipality can create for sewer projects and would allow the legislature to prescribe by law the debt limit for municipal sewer projects." Although it received a majority of the votes (126,589 to 120,808), it failed to receive a majority of the total ballots cast (139,253) and therefore did not pass. 19LSO-051

State of Wyoming
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The Cowboy State

General Election -- Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Absentee voting begins: Sept. 18, 2020.

Voter registration closes on Oct. 19, 2020, but qualified electors can register at the polls on Election Day.

Official Results >
Trump/Pence (Rep.)	193,559	(69.94)
Biden/Harris (Dem.)	73,491	(26.55)
Jorgensen/Cohen (Lib.)	5,768	(2.08)
Pierce/Ballard (Ind.)	2,208	(0.80)
write-ins	1,739	(0.63)
Total........276,765
under votes 1,459 over votes 279 total ballots cast 278,503

Overview: Wyoming was the strongest state for Trump in 2020, producing his largest share of the vote and margin of any state. Trump's 69.94% showing was higher than any presidential candidate in Wyoming since Ronald Reagan in 1984. He achieved a margin of 120,068 votes (43.39 percentage points), carrying all counties but Albany and Teton.
Celebrity Kanye West, a Cody resident, launched a campaign for president in July, but did not appear on the Wyoming ballot or have an impact on the race nationally.
[SOS]
BALLOT [PDF]

[State Primary: August 18, 2020]

Democratic Presidential Preference Caucus -- Friday, April 17, 2020

Democrats
Ranked Choice Voting (Round 8): Biden 10,912 (72.2%), Sanders 4,206 (27.8%) Total 15,118.
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18 Delegates: 8 District, 4 At-Large, 2 PLEO and 4 Unpledged

Republicans

General Election Winners in Wyoming, 1992-2016

1992	1996	2000	2004	2008	2012	2016
Bush 39.56%	Dole 49.81%	Bush 67.76%	Bush 68.86%	McCain 64.78%	Romney 68.64%	Trump 68.17%

and the details...

General Election -- Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Voting Eligible Population*: 431,011.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 57.0%.

Absentee voting begins: Sept. 23, 2016.

Voter registration closes on Oct. 24, 2016, but qualified electors can register at the polls on Election Day.

Official Results >
+Trump/Pence (Rep.)	174,419	(68.17)
Clinton/Kaine (Dem.)	55,973	(21.88)
Johnson/Weld (Lib.)	13,287	(5.19)
Castle/Bradley (Const.)	2,042	(0.80)
De La Fuente/Steinberg (I)	709	(0.28)
Stein/Baraka (I)	2,515	(0.98)
write-ins	6,904	(2.70)
Total........255,849
over votes 278 under votes 2,661 total ballots cast 258,788

Overview: Trump's 68.17% of the vote was on par with recent Republican showings, while the Clinton ticket obtained a dismal 21.88%–her worst showing of any state. Trump's margin was 118,446 votes (46.29 percentage points). Trump carried all counties except for Teton (Jackson). LBJ was the last Democrat to carry Wyoming, in 1964. Given the one-sided nature of the presidential race in Wyoming, some activists made trips to Colorado to help out there; for example the drive from Laramie to Fort Collins takes little more than an hour.
Sen. Tim Kaine did a couple of fundraisers in Jackson on Aug. 18. Donald Trump Jr. visited Jackson on Oct. 3 for a fundraiser hosted by Foster Friess at the headquarters of his Brandywine Fund. Independent candidate Evan McMullin spoke at a campaign event at the Lodge at Snow King Resort in Jackson on the evening of Oct. 24.
[SOS] | Clinton | Trump
BALLOT [PDF]

General Election -- Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Voting Eligible Population*: 422,784.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 58.9%.

Registration: Rep. 160,361 (66.70%) Dem. 51,109 (21.26%) Unaffiliated 27,695 (11.52%) Lib. 1,139 Const. 90 Country 21 AE 9 Other 14 ...Total 240,438

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+Romney/Ryan (Rep.)	170,962	(68.64)
Obama/Biden (Dem.)	69,286	(27.82)
Johnson/Gray (Lib.)	5,326	(2.14)
Goode/Clymer (Const.)	1,452	(0.58)
write-ins	2,035	(0.82)
Total........249,061
under votes 1,367 over votes 273 total ballots cast 250,701

2012 Overview
Romney/Ryan amassed a margin of 101,676 votes (40.82 percentage points), carrying all counties but Teton County (Jackson). The percentage margin was second biggest after Utah. Principals made a couple of fundraising visits. Mitt Romney appeared at receptions and a dinner hosted by Vice President Dick Cheney in Jackson Hole on July 11, and Michelle Obama appeared at a fundraising luncheon in Jackson Hole on Aug. 11. Libertarian Gary Johnson rallied at the University of Wyoming in Laramie on Oct. 18 and his running mate Jim Gray made a trip on Aug. 10-11, appearing in Cheyenne, Laramie and Casper.
Obama | (Romney)
BALLOT [PDF]

General Election -- Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Voting Eligible Population*: 389,304.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 65.4%.

Wyoming statutes allow voters to register at the polls on Election Day (thus the vote total is higher than the registration number).

In Wyoming, any qualified elector may vote by absentee ballot in person in the office of their county clerk 40 days before an election or by requesting an absentee ballot be mailed.

Registration: Rep. 150,504 (61.48%) Dem. 65,640 (26.81%) Unaffiliated 27,757 (11.34%) Lib. 878 Other 39 ...Total 244,818

Official Results >
+McCain/Palin (Rep.)	164,958	(64.78)
Obama/Biden (Dem.)	82,868	(32.54)
Barr/Root (Lib.)	1,594	(0.63)
Baldwin/Castle (Ind.)	1,192	(0.47)
Nader/Gonzalez (Ind.)	2,525	(0.99)
w/ins	1,521	(0.60)
Total........254,658
under votes 1,131; over votes 246 total ballots cast 256,035

2008 Overview
Wyoming was never in any doubt as the McCain-Palin ticket secured a margin of 82,090 votes (32.24 percentage points). Obama fared 7.5 percentage points better than Kerry had and carried Albany County (Laramie...home of the University of Wyoming) in addition to Teton County (Jackson). Activity by the principals was limited to Cindy McCain's appearance at a Sept. 24 fundraising breakfast/brunch for McCain-Palin Victory 2008 at Teton Pines Country Club in Wilson (Gov. Palin originally scheduled).
Obama/Allies | McCain/Allies | Nader

General Election -- Tuesday, November 2, 2004

Voting Eligible Population*: 370,785.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 65.7%.

Wyoming statutes allow voters to register at the polls on Election Day.

Registration: Rep. 146,328 (62.96%) Dem. 62,385 (26.84%) Other 23,355 (10.05%) Lib. 328 ...Total 232,396

Official Results >
+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	167,629	(68.86)
Kerry/Edwards (Dem.)	70,776	(29.07)
Badnarik/Campagna (Lib.)	1,171	(0.48)
Nader/Camejo (Ind.)	2,741	(1.13)
Peroutka/Baldwin (Ind.)	631	(0.26)
Write-Ins	480	(0.20)
Total........243,428
total ballots cast 245,789 incl. 433 over votes

2004 Overview
The Bush-Cheney ticket amassed a margin of 96,853 votes (39.79 percentage points). Bush carried 22 counties; Kerry did carry Teton County (Jackson). In a Nov. 3, 2004 press release Secretary of State Joe Meyer stated, “Having Wyoming’s Dick Cheney on the ballot has probably driven our high voter turnout the last two Presidential elections.”
General Election Details

General Election -- Tuesday, November 7, 2000

Voting Eligible Population*: 361,078.
VEP Highest Office Turnout Rate: 59.2%.

Notes: Third parties on the ballot: The Libertarian Party qualified as minor party, having won support from more than 5% of the electors in the last general election. The Natural Law Party and the Reform Party qualified as provisional parties (June 1, 2000 deadline). Howard Phillips qualified as an independent candidate by meeting the signature requirement. (An independent candidate needed to submit signatures of 3,484 certified voters (2 percent of the voting population) by the Aug. 28, 2000 deadline). A Nader petition effort fell short.

Official Results >
Gore/Lieberman (Dem.)	60,481	(27.70)
Phillips/Frazier (Ind.)	720	(0.33)
Browne/Olivier (Lib.)	1,443	(0.66)
Hagelin/Goldhaber (NLP)	411	(0.19)
Buchanan/Foster (Ref.)	2,724	(1.25)
+Bush/Cheney (Rep.)	147,947	(67.76)
Nader/LaDuke (w/in)^*	4,625	(2.12)
Total........218,351
total ballots cast 221,685

*The state canvass does not include the Nader write in votes. The state canvassing board did not canvass those votes because they did not affect the outcome of the race. However, Nader requested that his write-in votes be counted according to W.S. 22-16-103(b).

2000 Overview
The Bush-Cheney ticket easily won Wyoming's 3 electoral votes, carrying all 23 counties and securing a margin of 87,466 votes (40.06 percentage points) in Cheney's home state.

1992 and 1996 General Elections

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1992

Bush (Rep.)............79,347	(39.56)
Clinton (Dem.)........68,160	(33.98)
Perot (Ind.).............51,263	(25.56)
Others (2+w/ins).......1,817	(1.10)
Total........200,587

1996

Dole (Rep.)...........105,388	(49.81)
Clinton (Dem.)........77,934	(36.84)
Perot (Ind.).............25,928	(12.26)
Others (2)................2,321	(0.91)
Total........211,571

Note: The 12%-plus for Perot marked his fourth strongest showing.