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==Politics== In its early days, Lawrence County was a Democratic-leaning swing county, voting Republican only twice up to 1892 when it supported [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in 1872 and [[Benjamin Harrison]] in 1888. It did not vote for a losing Republican candidate until [[Wendell Willkie]] carried the county in 1940 due to isolationist sentiment. Since that time, however, Lawrence County β like so many in Southern Illinois β has become reliably Republican. The only Democrat to gain an absolute majority in the county since 1936 has been [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964, although [[Bill Clinton]] obtained pluralities in both 1992 and 1996. {{PresHead|place=Lawrence County, Illinois|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|4,715|1,283|128|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,886|1,419|117|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,521|1,290|283|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,857|2,011|121|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,403|3,016|139|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,162|2,518|49|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,594|2,822|162|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|2,568|2,871|953|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,681|3,270|1,537|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,655|3,140|28|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,686|2,924|28|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,453|3,030|373|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|4,345|4,044|53|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|5,347|2,818|16|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|4,883|3,075|988|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|4,176|5,136|0|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|6,120|3,667|13|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,104|3,751|7|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|6,207|3,875|4|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|4,472|4,391|194|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|5,191|4,003|111|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1940|Republican|6,061|5,625|147|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|5,060|6,168|170|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|4,194|6,100|147|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,851|3,806|69|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|4,607|4,103|235|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|4,720|3,707|287|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|4,481|5,052|543|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,617|2,550|1,153|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1908|Democratic|2,197|2,253|209|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,969|1,712|207|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1900|Democratic|1,961|2,021|101|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|1,972|1,948|71|Illinois}} {{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|1,523|1,572|267|Illinois}}
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