Editing St. Joseph County, Indiana (section)

==Politics==
St. Joseph County is part of [[Indiana's 2nd congressional district]] and is represented by Republican [[Rudy Yakym]] in the [[United States Congress]]. Indiana's US Senators are Republicans [[Jim Banks]] and [[Todd Young]]. St. Joseph County leans Democratic in presidential elections like most counties with college cities; however it has acted as a swing county in the past, such as in the 1970s and 1980s when it trended Republican. In 2000, Democrat [[Al Gore]] carried the county but only by 122 votes. The last Republican to win the county was [[George W. Bush]], who flipped the county back in 2004. In 2008, Democrat [[Barack Obama]] won the county by 17 points, the first Democrat to gain a full majority since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Since then the county has leaned Democratic but by narrow margins. In 2016 and 2024 the Democratic candidate only carried the county by a plurality; Republican [[Donald Trump]] only lost it by 231 votes in 2016.

{{PresHead|place=St. Joseph County, Indiana|source1=<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=May 20, 2018}}</ref>|source2=<ref>The leading "other" candidate, [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] [[Theodore Roosevelt]], received 5,240 votes, while Socialist candidate [[Eugene V. Debs|Eugene Debs]] received 1,285 votes, [[Prohibition Party|Prohibition]] candidate [[Eugene W. Chafin|Eugene Chafin]] received 452 votes, and [[Socialist Labor Party of America|Socialist Labor]] candidate [[Arthur E. Reimer|Arthur Reimer]] received 87 votes.</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|53,585|55,215|2,024|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|53,164|59,896|2,178|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|52,021|52,252|7,569|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|52,578|56,460|1,971|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|48,510|68,710|1,519|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|55,254|52,637|728|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|47,581|47,703|2,190|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|38,281|45,704|9,203|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|38,934|46,203|19,328|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|49,481|48,056|327|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|54,404|47,513|576|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|50,607|44,218|8,289|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|50,358|49,156|810|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|64,808|41,629|602|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|47,114|47,414|12,336|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|39,872|65,844|630|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|53,621|63,553|325|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|57,827|54,152|493|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|53,537|53,269|826|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|39,593|49,866|1,387|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|39,875|47,149|565|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|36,164|45,620|374|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|25,807|43,131|1,401|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|28,198|38,026|2,339|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|36,844|26,846|316|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|23,682|15,056|2,344|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|17,675|12,355|1,275|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|7,961|9,709|835|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|3,146|5,391|7,064|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|11,222|8,562|1,029|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|11,166|5,967|721|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|8,127|6,948|230|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|7,138|6,247|136|Indiana}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|5,220|6,077|322|Indiana}}
{{PresFoot|1888|Democratic|4,929|5,257|212|Indiana}}