Editing Jefferson County, Arkansas (section)

===Politics===
Jefferson County is strongly [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] in races for president, governor, and the United States Senate. In the [[Reconstruction Era]], the county's majority black residents favored presidential candidates from the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] in every election from 1868 to 1888.{{citation needed|date=August 2018}} In the early 1890s, white Southern Democrats passed laws to disenfranchise black voters from engaging in the political process, a process which ended by the 1960s, and blacks began to favor voting for Democrats and southern whites favored the Republicans. Since 1892, Democrats have carried the county in all but three presidential elections, when Republican [[William McKinley]] won it in 1900, [[American Independent Party]] candidate [[George Wallace]] won it in [[United States presidential election in Arkansas, 1968|1968]] and Republican [[Richard Nixon]] won it in [[United States presidential election in Arkansas, 1972|1972]], the latter whom carried every county in Arkansas. No Republican since [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1988 has won over 40% of the county's vote, although [[Joe Biden]] is the first Democrat since that year to get under 60% in the county.

In the style of many urban counties in the [[Barack Obama]] and post-Obama eras, the Democratic Party continues to enjoy a strong following in Jefferson County, even as the non-urban areas have deeply turned against the party.

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|8,468|12,802|338|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|9,521|14,981|656|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|9,250|15,772|872|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|9,520|17,470|393|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|10,655|18,465|569|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|10,218|19,675|600|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|8,765|17,716|720|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|6,330|19,701|1,646|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|7,525|21,819|2,348|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|12,520|16,664|568|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|14,514|18,082|313|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|10,697|17,292|2,057|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|8,034|21,001|0|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|16,888|10,346|26|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|4,860|9,125|10,053|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|9,968|12,872|129|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|4,839|8,442|1,954|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|5,743|6,426|389|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|5,925|8,300|27|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,176|5,086|1,952|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|1,578|4,095|3|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|587|3,829|13|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|224|3,414|7|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|419|2,548|23|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|1,830|2,611|9|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|707|1,950|515|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|1,048|2,670|65|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|923|2,173|0|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|579|1,659|899|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|1,386|1,585|154|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|1,324|1,520|99|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,477|1,363|4|Arkansas}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Democratic|1,050|1,653|47|Arkansas}}