1976, wrote in Ronald Reagan.
The first election I voted in was an off-off-year. Fall of 83. I was a freshman in college, 18 by three months, and there was a referendum on moose hunting that I was opposed to at the time. It passed anyway, kicking off a checkered career in voting sucess. The last election was the first time my vote for a Senator went my way (Angus King … I never threw Snowe or Collins any bones).
1972
hTe 26th amendment passed the year I turned 18.
Pretty sure my first election was the 1990 Texas gubernatorial elections (I had turned 18 in September of that year).
1972, McGovern.
Was it 2016?
The first election I can remember voting in was 4th grade class president in the fall of '58. I came in second and was vice president. We may have had elections earlier but I don’t recall them.
The first government elections I voted in were in 1970 elections. I voted for Howard Metzenbaum who lost to Robert Taft, Jr. for the Ohio Senate Seat. Metzenbaum was later appointed to fill the seat of Wm. Saxbe who became Attorney General. He served for less than a year and lost the primary to John Glenn. He resigned to let Glenn (who won election) be appointed to fill the seat he’d filled. He then defeated Taft in the 1976 election and Taft resigned and Metzenbaum was appointed to fill that seat then continue in it. I wonder how many others have been twice appointed to fill a Senate seat.
My first Presidential election was 72. I did not vote Nixon.
… and seven others upthread gave the same answer.
Make me #9.
I walked a precinct for John Vasconcellos when I was fifteen.
2000 primary. Voted in the Republican primary, McCain over Bush. I probably would have voted for McCain again in the general if he’d won the primary. Instead I voted for Gore in the general, and I’ve gone straight Democrat in the general ever since.
Voted for Howard Dean in the 2004 Democratic primary. Besides that, I’ve always voted for the eventual Democratic nominee.
Bill Clinton, 1992.
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1984 Reagan
This.