Editing Jasper County, South Carolina (section)

==Law and government==
Jasper County is governed by a five-member partisan county council, who are elected in staggered four year terms. The council appoints a county administrator who is tasked with running the day-to-day operations of the county, with the exception of the Sheriff's Office.

[[Mary Gordon Ellis]], the first woman elected to the South Carolina legislature, represented Jasper County in the state senate for one term, from 1928 to 1932, after having served as state superintendent of schools.<ref name="nwhm.org">{{cite web|url=https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/South_Carolina.html|title=Women Wielding Power-South Carolina|work=nwhm.org|access-date=September 10, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906090551/https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/legislators/South_Carolina.html|archive-date=September 6, 2015}}</ref>

===Politics===
Like most counties in the rural [[Black Belt in the American South|Black Belt]] of South Carolina, Jasper has long leaned Democratic. However, in [[2024 United States presidential election in South Carolina|2024]], [[Donald Trump]] was able to flip the county Republican for the first time since [[Richard Nixon]] carried it in [[1972 United States presidential election in South Carolina|1972]].{{PresHead|place=Jasper County, South Carolina|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 13, 2018}}</ref>}}
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