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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 [[Democratic Party (United States)|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 (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.
 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.