Editing Bossier Parish, Louisiana (section)

==Law, government and politics==
Bossier Parish is governed by a 12-member elected body: the Bossier Parish Police Jury (which is equivalent to a [[county commission]] in other states). Members are elected from [[single-member districts]].The current members of the police jury are:
* District 1 - Bob Brotherton
* District 2 - Glenn Benton
* District 3 - Philip Rogers
* District 4 - John Ed Jordan
* District 5 - Julianna Parks
* District 6 - Chris Marsiglia
* District 7 - Jimmy Cochran
* District 8 - Douglas E. Rimmer
* District 9 - Charles Gray
* District 10 - Jerome Darby
* District 11 - Tom Salzer
* District 12 - Paul M. "Mac" Plummer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://policejury.mybossier.com/pj/jurors_details.asp?ID%3D12 |title=Edwin T. Shell - Police Jurors - Bossier Parish Police Jury - Your Online Portal to Bossier Parish Government |access-date=May 12, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808163623/http://policejury.mybossier.com/pj/jurors_details.asp?ID=12 |archive-date=August 8, 2007 }}</ref>

Since the late 20th century, the non-Hispanic white population of the parish has shifted from the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] to the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] (as have most conservative whites in Louisiana and other Southern U.S. states). The state was a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party from the period after the turn of the century (when most Blacks were disenfranchised in Louisiana) to the mid-20th century.

Bossier Parish has since reliably voted for Republican candidates in most contested U.S. presidential elections. Since 1952, [[George Wallace]], the former [[governor of Alabama]] who ran in 1968 on the [[American Independent Party]] ticket, has been the only non-Republican to carry Bossier Parish.<ref>[http://www.uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/comparemaps.php?year=2008&fips=22&f=1&off=0&elect=0 David Leip's Presidential election Atlas (Louisiana electoral maps]</ref><ref>[http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1952.htm Geographie Electorale]</ref>

In 2008, [[U.S. Senator]] [[John McCain]] of [[Arizona]] won in Bossier Parish with 32,713 votes (71.4 percent) over Democrat [[Barack H. Obama]] of [[Illinois]], who received 12,703 votes (27.8 percent).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11042008/11042008_08.html|title=Bossier Parish presidential election returns, November 4, 2008|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|access-date=November 11, 2012}}</ref> In 2012, [[Mitt Romney]] polled 34,988 votes (72 percent) in Bossier Parish (2,275 more ballots than McCain drew in 2008). President Obama won 12,956 (26.6) of the votes in Bossier Parish.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/11062012/11062012_08.html|title=Bossier Parish presidential election returns, November 6, 2012|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|access-date=November 11, 2012}}</ref>

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