Obama ended up winning the county by a surprisingly large margin of 53%-46%.

In 2008, however, Barack Obama won the county with 51.2 percent of the vote.

In 2012, Obama again won the county, this time with a slim plurality of the vote.

However he won the county with only about 52% of the vote, which was not enough to carry the state.

Since, at least, 1990 no Republican candidate for governor has won the county.

In the 1970s Democratic candidates for governor won the county, but this was something of an anomaly.

In 2011 Carrigtwohill won the county final, the first time since 1918.

Obama won the county by an even larger margin of 53.6% in the 2012 election.

In 2004 Bush won the county by a much smaller margin.

The Democratic Presidential candidate has won the county in every election following 1924.