Editing Sarpy County, Nebraska (section)

==Government and infrastructure==
The [[Sarpy County Sheriff]]'s Department is responsible for enforcing the law within the unincorporated areas of the county. By contract, the department is also responsible for enforcing the law within the city limits of Gretna and Springfield. The cities of [[Bellevue, Nebraska|Bellevue]], [[La Vista, Nebraska|La Vista]], and [[Papillion, Nebraska|Papillion]] have their own city [[Police]] Departments which are primarily responsible for law enforcement within their respective city limits. The Sheriff's Department has secondary responsibility for law enforcement within these three cities, providing essentials such as backup support.

The Sarpy County Law Enforcement Center, built in 1989, is located within the campus of the Sarpy County [[Courthouse]] in Papillion. It houses the county's jail facility and the Sarpy County Public Defender's Office. The Bellevue and LaVista City Police Departments also have their own holding cells. The county jail was designed to hold 148 people, but the facility frequently holds more than that number.<ref>[https://www.omaha.com/news/metro/sarpy-county-s-jail-is-short-on-space-and-options/article_d1d9328a-465c-59de-81be-330a06a092d1.html ''County Jail is short on space'']</ref>
Fire protection and emergency medical services are provided by a mix of seven full-career, part-time paid, military, and all-volunteer fire departments, representing various municipalities within the county, plus [[Offutt Air Force Base]].

===Politics===
Sarpy County voters have generally voted Republican in national politics. In only one national election since 1948 has the county selected the Democratic Party candidate (as of 2020). Since 1964, only three Democrats - [[Barack Obama]] in 2008, [[Joe Biden]] in 2020, and [[Kamala Harris]] in 2024 have received at least 40 percent of the county's vote. From 1968 to 2016, Republicans always carried Sarpy County by at least 21 points with the exception of a slight drop to 16 points in 2008. However, in 2020, Republican candidate [[Donald Trump]] beat Biden only by 11 points, a 92-year low for a winning Republican candidate. In 2024, Sarpy County very narrowly voted for [[Dan Osborn]], an Independent, over incumbent Republican Senator Deb Fischer in the 2024 Senate race; no Democrat filed for this race.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-11-14 |title=Nebraska Senate Election 2024 Live Results |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/nebraska-senate-results |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=www.nbcnews.com |language=en}}</ref>

This county was the only one in Nebraska to vote for both [[2024 Nebraska Initiative 434|Initiative 434]] and [[2024 Nebraska Initiative 439|Initiative 439]] in 2024. Those two initiatives dealt with abortion and were contradictory to each other, with the former restricting abortion after the first trimester and the latter intending to protect abortion access through fetal viability.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/default/files/doc/elections/2024/2024%20General%20Canvass%20Book.pdf |title=Official Results |website=Nebraska Secretary of State|access-date=2024-12-03}}</ref>

As of December 2020, Republicans hold a plurality in the county voter registration.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 1, 2020 |title=2020 Eligible Voter Statistics |url=https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/sos.nebraska.gov/files/doc/elections/vrstats/2020vr/Statewide-December-2020.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109235434/https://sos.nebraska.gov/sites/sos.nebraska.gov/files/doc/elections/vrstats/2020vr/Statewide-December-2020.pdf |archive-date=January 9, 2021 |website=Nebraska Secretary of State}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|+Registered voters by party in Sarpy County on December 1, 2020
!Democratic
!Republican
!Libertarian
!Non-Partisan
!Total
|-
|33,172 (27.14%)
|54,133 (44.3%)
|2,217 (1.81%)
|32,687 (26.75%)
|'''122,209 (100%)'''
|}
{{PresHead|place=Sarpy County, Nebraska|source=<ref>[http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS Election Results]</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2004|Republican|40,163|17,455|716|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|28,979|14,637|1,662|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|23,023|12,806|4,048|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|20,516|10,741|9,416|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|20,192|10,947|146|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|20,192|6,838|130|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|15,552|5,689|1,961|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|11,917|7,385|414|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|11,514|3,904|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|6,019|3,506|1,945|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,418|5,581|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,672|3,777|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,826|2,501|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,649|2,529|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|2,367|2,635|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|2,641|2,654|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,165|2,537|0|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,569|3,030|50|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,148|3,112|69|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,011|1,900|29|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,411|1,247|973|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,662|1,027|91|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|885|1,320|53|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|404|857|532|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|912|1,090|67|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|998|675|186|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|792|1,090|46|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|674|1,183|59|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|582|351|553|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|658|875|72|Nebraska}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|616|610|23|Nebraska}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|491|516|19|Nebraska}}