Editing Amador County, California (section)

== Politics, government, and policing ==
===County Supervisors===
The county is governed by a five-person elected Board of Supervisors and a County Administrator. The county seat is Jackson.

===Policing===
The unincorporated areas of Amador County are patrolled by the county sheriff's department, which also operates the county jail and protects the courts. Municipal police departments within the county are at Ione, Jackson, and Sutter Creek.

=== Voter registration statistics ===

{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
|-
! colspan="3" | Population and registered voters
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | Total eligible population<ref name="2022reg">{{cite web |title=Statement of Vote, November 8, 2022, General Election |url=https://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov/sov/2022-general/sov/complete.pdf |website=California Secretary of State |access-date=May 5, 2023}}</ref>
| colspan="2" | 29,593
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;Registered voters<ref name="2022reg"/><ref name="PCT-RV" group=note>Percentage of registered voters with respect to total population. Percentages of party members with respect to registered voters follow.</ref>
| 25,954
| 87.7%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 7,065
| 23.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Republican<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 12,251
| 41.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Democratic–Republican spread<ref name="2022reg"/>
| <span style="color:#d6002b;">'''-5,186'''</span>
| <span style="color:#d6002b;">'''-16.5%'''</span>
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;American Independent<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 1,427
| 4.8%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Libertarian<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 516
| 1.7%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Green<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 109
| 0.3%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Peace and Freedom<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 81
| 0.2%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Other<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 128
| 0.4%
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Unknown<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 32
| 0.1%
|-
! scope="row" style="text-align: left;" | &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;No party preference<ref name="2022reg"/>
| 4,353
| 14.7%
|}

==== Cities by population and voter registration ====

{| class="wikitable collapsible sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:right;"
|+ class="nowrap"| Cities by population and voter registration
|-
!scope="col"| City
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Population<ref name="US-CB-B02001" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Registered voters<ref name="CA-SS">California Secretary of State. [http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf February 10, 2013 – Report of Registration] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103114419/http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ror/ror-pages/ror-odd-year-2013/political-sub.pdf |date=November 3, 2013 }}. Retrieved October 31, 2013.</ref><br /><ref name="PCT-RV" group="note" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Democratic<ref name="CA-SS" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Republican<ref name="CA-SS" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| D–R spread<ref name="CA-SS" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| Other<ref name="CA-SS" />
!scope="col" data-sort-type="number"| No party preference<ref name="CA-SS" />
|-
!scope="row"| [[Amador City, California|Amador]]
| 158 || 83.5% || 34.1% || 41.7% ||<span style="color: #800080;">'''-7.6%'''</span>|| 9.8% || 18.2%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Ione, California|Ione]]
| 7,873 || 29.0% || 27.3% || 49.4% ||<span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-22.1%'''</span>|| 11.4% || 16.8%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Jackson, California|Jackson]]
| 4,626 || 55.7% || 32.3% || 42.6% ||<span style="color: #d6002b;">'''-10.3%'''</span>|| 11.2% || 18.4%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Plymouth, California|Plymouth]]
| 1,055 || 49.4% || 30.9% || 38.8% ||<span style="color: #800080;">'''-7.9%'''</span>|| 13.2% || 22.5%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Sutter Creek, California|Sutter Creek]]
| 2,497 || 68.4% || 35.9% || 41.9% ||<span style="color: #800080;">'''-6.0%'''</span>|| 9.6% || 16.7%
|}

===Politics===
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{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,279|915|155|California}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,384|1,209|36|California}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,144|1,398|35|California}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|1,125|1,255|234|California}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|1,373|1,429|90|California}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|1,317|1,358|85|California}}
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