Editing Fayette County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
Until the beginning of the twentieth century, Fayette County was rock-ribbed Democratic. It was not won by a Republican until [[Theodore Roosevelt]]’s landslide win of 1904. The county voted after that for the winning candidate in every election until 1940, when opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]’s economic and war policies gave the county to [[Wendell Willkie]]. Since then only two Democratic presidential candidates have gained an absolute majority in the county – the more recent of these two, [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976, doing so by a single vote.

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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|7,847|1,632|147|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|8,055|1,826|195|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|7,372|1,819|400|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,951|2,853|208|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,499|3,967|242|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|5,880|3,571|98|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|5,200|3,886|252|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|3,881|3,887|1,024|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|3,508|4,833|1,777|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|5,452|4,632|34|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|6,607|3,844|22|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|6,523|3,614|271|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|5,059|5,128|68|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,574|4,192|2|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|5,449|4,011|943|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,492|6,295|0|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|6,586|4,907|11|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,739|4,914|5|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|7,028|5,299|12|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|5,717|5,771|120|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|6,332|5,435|120|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|7,486|7,286|143|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|6,419|6,824|128|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|5,122|7,053|185|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|6,545|3,998|73|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|5,010|4,668|666|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,758|3,824|264|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|5,316|5,669|434|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,481|2,782|1,779|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|3,261|3,193|246|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,253|2,650|399|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|2,920|3,423|176|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|2,769|3,627|126|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|1,980|2,433|988|Illinois}}