Editing Macon County, Alabama (section)

==Government==
Macon County has been overwhelmingly Democratic for most of the past century and a quarter. Apart from the "[[dealignment]]" era between 1948 and 1972, and [[Herbert Hoover]] in the highly controversial 1928 election, no Republican has won so much as twenty percent of the county's vote in the past century. No Republican has obtained a majority in that time span, although [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] won a narrow plurality in 1956. Although [[Donald Trump]] in 2024 was able to crack 20% of the vote for the first time since Nixon in 1972, Macon County was still the most Democratic county in Alabama in that election.

In the elections of 1980,<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1980&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1980 Presidential Election statistics]</ref> Macon was the most Democratic county in the nation while in 1984 it was the most Democratic outside of the District of Columbia.<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1984&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1984 Presidential Election statistics]</ref> Macon County was only 0.02 percent shy of this in 1992,<ref>Dave Leip's U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1992&f=0&off=0&elect=0 1992 Presidential Election statistics]</ref> when it gave both [[George H. W. Bush]] his smallest proportion outside of the District of Columbia and independent [[Ross Perot]] his smallest vote share in any county nationwide.

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{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|1,091|7,665|75|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|987|7,018|198|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,134|7,253|375|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,304|6,351|101|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|1,543|7,857|99|Alabama}}
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{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,387|5,915|147|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|1,931|3,636|278|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|257|4,450|1,674|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1964|Dixiecrat|1,858|0|2,973|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|877|1,327|25|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,067|1,024|102|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|621|1,457|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1948|Dixiecrat|110|0|1,101|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|82|1,032|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|41|1,259|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|39|1,146|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|56|905|1|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|348|526|3|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|48|538|3|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|64|693|2|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|43|575|3|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|24|647|23|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|38|482|9|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|51|562|7|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|511|1,295|45|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|259|1,043|61|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|13|200|704|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|268|931|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|80|323|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1880|Democratic|191|538|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1876|Democratic|881|1,493|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1872|Republican|2,073|948|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1868|Republican|2,327|1,075|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1860|Constitutional Union|0|46|2,394|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1856|Know Nothing |0|1,039|1,239|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1852|Whig|772|658|99|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1848|Whig|1,464|532|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1844|Whig|1,087|626|0|Alabama}}
{{PresRow|1840|Whig|731|340|0|Alabama}}
{{PresFoot|1836|Whig|150|34|0|Alabama}}

The Sheriff of Macon County is Andre Brunson, who also was the former strength coach at Tuskegee University.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://goldentigersports.com/staff.aspx?staff=22|title = Andre Brunson - Life Coach - Staff Directory}}</ref>