Gillespie County has been won by Republicans in every election since 1896 with only a handful of exceptions. Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive Party won the county in 1912 (but carried no other counties in the state). In 1924, it was one of only two Texas counties won by Progressive candidate Robert M. La Follette. Gillespie County has only backed a Democratic nominee twice: in 1932 and 1964, both of which were landslide victories for the party, and the latter being for county native Lyndon Johnson. Indeed, no Democrat since Jimmy Carter in 1976 has received so much as 22 percent of the county's vote.