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 Wyoming's political history defies easy classification. The state was the first to grant women the right to vote and to elect a woman governor.<ref name="Today in History">{{cite web |url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec10.html |title=Today in History |publisher=The Library of Congress |access-date=July 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608171436/http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec10.html |archive-date=June 8, 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> On December 10, 1869, [[John Allen Campbell]], the first Governor of the Wyoming Territory, approved the first law in United States history explicitly granting women the right to vote. This day was later commemorated as Wyoming Day.<ref name="Today in History"/> On November 5, 1889, voters approved the first constitution in the world granting full voting rights to women.<ref name="Today in History"/>
-While the state elected notable Democrats to federal office in the 1960s and 1970s, politics have become decidedly more conservative since the 1980s as the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] came to dominate the state's congressional delegation. Today, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, [[John Barrasso]] and [[Cynthia Lummis]], and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman [[Harriet Hageman]]. All three are Republicans; a Democrat has not represented Wyoming in the Senate since 1977 or in the House since 1978. The state has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, one of only eight times since statehood. In the 2004 presidential election, [[George W. Bush]] won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1989.
+While the state elected notable Democrats to federal office in the 1960s and 1970s, politics have become decidedly more conservative since the 1980s as the Republican Party came to dominate the state's congressional delegation. Today, Wyoming is represented in Washington by its two Senators, [[John Barrasso]] and [[Cynthia Lummis]], and its one member of the House of Representatives, Congresswoman [[Harriet Hageman]]. All three are Republicans; a Democrat has not represented Wyoming in the Senate since 1977 or in the House since 1978. The state has not voted for a Democrat for president since 1964, one of only eight times since statehood. In the 2004 presidential election, [[George W. Bush]] won his second-largest victory, with 69% of the vote. Former Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] is a Wyoming resident and represented the state in Congress from 1979 to 1989.
 The last time a Democrat won a statewide election in Wyoming was in [[2006 Wyoming gubernatorial election|2006]], when Democratic governor [[Dave Freudenthal]] was re-elected to a second term by a wide margin, winning every county in the state. For 19 of Wyoming's 23 counties, 2006 marked the last time that they voted for the Democratic nominee in a statewide race. Of the remaining 4, [[Sweetwater County]] last voted Democratic in the [[2008 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming|2008 U.S. House race]] and [[Laramie County]] last voted Democratic in the [[2014 Wyoming elections#Superintendent of Public Instruction|2014 Superintendent of Public Instruction race]], leaving [[Teton County, Wyoming|Teton]] and [[Albany County, Wyoming|Albany]] as the only counties that Democrats are able to win. Teton, which is composed of affluent resort communities, is reliably Democratic, except in Republican landslides like the [[2022 Wyoming gubernatorial election|2022 gubernatorial election]]; Albany, which contains the college town of [[Laramie, Wyoming|Laramie]], is more competitive.