Editing Eau Claire County, Wisconsin (section)

==Government==
[[File:2009-0711-EauClaire-CH.jpg|thumb|left|Eau Claire City Hall (listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin|NRHP]])]]

The legislative body of Eau Claire County is the non-partisan 29-member [[Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=/cffiles/counties/county.cfm&id=55035 |title= Find a County|website=www.naco.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091103101042/http://www.naco.org/Template.cfm?Section=Find_a_County&Template=%2Fcffiles%2Fcounties%2Fcounty.cfm&id=55035 |archive-date=November 3, 2009}}</ref> Members of the [[board of supervisors]] are elected by district and the chairperson and vice-chair positions are elected from within members of the board.

The board meets in the Eau Claire County Courthouse in downtown [[Eau Claire, Wisconsin|Eau Claire]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.co.eau-claire.wi.us/eau_claire/Calendar_2010.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=September 29, 2012|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302012541/http://www.co.eau-claire.wi.us/eau_claire/Calendar_2010.pdf |archive-date=March 2, 2012}}</ref> with its weekly meetings televised on local public television and transcripts published online. Most items are approved on a "consent calendar" without discussion.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.co.eau-claire.wi.us/CountyGovernment/countyboardmembers/index.htm |title=Eau Claire County – County Board of Supervisors |publisher=Co.eau-claire.wi.us |access-date=November 2, 2011|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112234719/http://www.co.eau-claire.wi.us/CountyGovernment/countyboardmembers/index.htm |archive-date=November 12, 2011}}</ref> Public comment is limited to three minutes per individual per item.

Eau Claire County is in [[Wisconsin State Senate]] district 31, represented by [[Jeff Smith (Wisconsin politician)|Jeff Smith]] (D). The county is divided into two [[Wisconsin State Assembly|Wisconsin assembly districts]]: Assembly district 93 which is represented by [[Christian Phelps]] (D), as well as district 91 which is represented by [[Jodi Emerson]] (D). At the federal level, the entire county is contained within Wisconsin's [[WI-03|third congressional district]], which is represented in the [[United States House of Representatives]] by [[Derrick Van Orden]] (R).

In presidential elections, due in part to the presence of the [[University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire]], Eau Claire County is solidly Democratic. The last Republican to win the county was [[Ronald Reagan]] in his landslide re-election of [[1984 United States presidential election|1984]], and even then he only won the county by a margin of 2.64 percent, smaller than [[Richard Nixon]]'s margin of 5.12 percent in his landslide [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]] re-election.

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