Woah! Loving County:
1940
Roosevelt 98, Willkie 21
2004
Bush 65, Kerry 12, Badnarik 3
lol! LESS VOTERS!
More remarkable is the 2000 census and election. The census showed 67 persons living in the county, while there were 156 voters (that's 233% turnout of the AAP, all-ages voting population). It looks like maybe they kept the turnout down a bit this year to avoid too much suspicion.
Loving County is the least populous county in the country. It had a short oil boom in the early 1930s when the population reached 600, and the county was organized (in Texas, counties were chalked off, and then when there were 150 settlers, the county was organized). An earlier organization of Loving County was fraudulent - organizers of an irrigation company held a fraudulent election with make-believe voters who elected a county government made up of company officials.
I have visited Mentone, the county seat. The thing I remember most is that there was a dog sleeping in the parking in front of the courthouse square just off the road. There was so little traffic it was apparently a safe thing to do.
Loving County - Texas Handbook Loving County is named in honor of Oliver Loving, a pioneering cattleman who with his partner Charles Goodnight developed the Goodnight-Loving trail up the Pecos River into New Mexico and then on to the Pikes Peak gold mining areas around Denver. The novel
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry which was made into a TV miniseries was based. Note the story about Goodnight bring Loving's body back to Texas in the following article.
Oliver Loving - Texas Handbook 
