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==Politics== For two generations following the Civil War, Calhoun County was typical of the German counties on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River in being heavily Democratic as it had opposed the β[[Yankee]]β [[American Civil War]]. However, many citizens of Calhoun County enlisted in military on the side of Union during the war. The people of Calhoun generally were not sympathetic to the Confederate cause, as there are accounts of Calhoun citizens harassing Confederate sympathizers and Calhoun was often the target of Confederate desperados who would steal horses, burn barns, and generally terrorize the locals. Only when [[German-Americans]] were offended at Woodrow Wilson's policies towards Germany did the county vote Republican for the first time in 1920, and it narrowly repeated that in the GOP landslides of 1924 and 1928. The county did turn strongly Republican due again to opposition to war involvement in 1940, and remained Republican-leaning for three decades.{{Citation needed|reason=Lots of historical claims here with no evidence|date=March 2018}} Between 1970 and 2008 Calhoun turned Democratic once more β [[George H. W. Bush|George Bush senior]] in 1992 won a smaller proportion of the vote than [[Alf Landon]] in 1936 or [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912. The county leaned heavily Republican during the 2010s, so that [[Joe Biden]]βs 2020 vote percentage is the worst ever by a Democrat. Despite Donald Trump defeating Hillary Clinton by almost 40 points in 2016, Calhoun County concurrently voted Democratic in the Senate race, narrowly supporting [[Tammy Duckworth]] over Mark Kirk.<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/senate/illinois/|title = Illinois Election Results 2016: Senate Live Map by County, Real-Time Voting Updates|website = [[Politico]]|access-date = March 15, 2022|archive-date = January 20, 2022|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220120100620/https://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/senate/illinois/|url-status = live}}</ref> As of February 2025, the county is one of 7 that voted to join the state of Indiana.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-counties-secession-vote-indiana-j-b-pritzker-todd-huston-5a93d624</ref> {{PresHead|place=Calhoun 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=October 29, 2018|archive-date=March 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323225526/https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|url-status=live}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|2,059|560|65|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,046|677|50|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,721|739|111|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,440|1,080|56|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|1,221|1,423|62|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2004|Democratic|1,317|1,367|22|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2000|Democratic|1,229|1,310|63|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|941|1,676|396|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|745|1,519|539|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,238|1,544|8|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,648|1,443|16|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,591|1,208|96|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,364|1,549|30|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,705|1,299|13|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,542|1,329|268|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,288|1,805|0|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|1,654|1,608|5|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,892|1,498|1|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,915|1,454|2|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,526|1,377|20|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|1,956|1,271|14|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1940|Republican|2,516|1,625|17|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|1,883|2,058|161|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|1,239|2,229|36|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,594|1,551|33|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|1,136|1,115|110|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,367|703|39|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,168|1,181|64|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|373|602|243|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1908|Democratic|735|905|86|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1904|Democratic|730|815|162|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1900|Democratic|873|1,175|31|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1896|Democratic|795|1,176|15|Illinois}} {{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|563|840|175|Illinois}}
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