Editing Leslie County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
{{PresHead|place=Leslie County, Kentucky|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=July 3, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,908|382|68|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,321|446|46|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,015|400|77|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|4,439|433|81|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,574|766|57|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,661|1,266|37|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,159|1,210|65|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,296|1,466|328|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,879|1,591|466|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,280|1,105|24|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,385|1,075|15|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,536|1,327|58|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|3,770|1,478|23|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,299|913|24|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,615|828|236|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,971|1,795|8|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,894|795|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,770|531|14|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,239|705|15|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,397|783|62|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,679|499|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,292|626|3|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,716|618|3|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|2,810|569|8|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,806|159|6|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,052|223|33|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,576|142|16|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,516|133|6|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|606|105|433|Kentucky}}
Leslie County is one of forty-four United States counties{{efn|Thirty-eight counties have never voted Democratic since the Civil War, whilst [[Clinton County, Kentucky|Clinton County]] and [[Cumberland County, Kentucky|Cumberland County]] in Kentucky last did so in 1868, while [[Mitchell County, North Carolina]] and [[Lewis County, Kentucky]] alongside Tennessee’s [[Henderson County, Tennessee|Henderson County]] and [[Wayne County, Tennessee|Wayne County]] last voted Democratic for [[Samuel J. Tilden]] in 1876.}} to have never voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since its creation in 1878. In 1892,<ref>Góelections; [http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1892.htm Popular Vote at the Presidential Election of 1892]</ref> 1908, and 1916<ref>Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; [http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1916&f=1&off=0&elect=0 1916 Presidential Election Statistics]</ref> it was the most Republican county in the nation. Leslie's fierce [[Union (American Civil War)|Unionist sympathies]], so strong that areas surrounding it contributed more troops to the [[Union Army]] relative to population than any other part of the United States,<ref>Marshall, Anne E.; ''Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State'', pp. 114-115 {{ISBN|1469609835}}</ref> meant that between 1896 and 1928 no Democrat could receive even ten percent of the county's vote,<ref name="Presidential">Robinson, Edgar Eugene; ''The Presidential Vote 1896-1932'', p. 270 {{ISBN|9780804716963}}</ref> and none received so much as twenty-five percent until [[Lyndon Johnson]] managed over 47 percent in his landslide national triumph against [[Barry Goldwater]] in 1964.

Despite Goldwater's relatively poor performance, every Republican candidate since the county's formation has obtained an absolute majority in Leslie County, and only [[William Howard Taft]] in the divided 1912 election,<ref name="Presidential"/> [[George H. W. Bush]] in 1992, and [[Bob Dole]] in 1996 have otherwise received under seventy percent for the GOP. Both [[Mitt Romney]] and [[Donald Trump]] received almost ninety percent of the vote in this county, making Leslie the strongest GOP county in Kentucky (see chart below).

===Elected officials===
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| colspan="3" |'''Elected officials as of January 3, 2025'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/smembers_county.html |title=Senate Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/hmembers_county.html |title=House Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>
|- 
! scope=row|[[U.S. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Hal Rogers]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|5|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Brandon Smith (politician)|Brandon Smith]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 30th Senate district|30]]
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Derek Lewis (American politician)|Derek Lewis]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|90
|}