Editing Carroll County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,082|2,600|175|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|5,105|2,748|184|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,434|2,447|564|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|3,555|3,665|186|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|3,596|3,965|132|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,534|3,537|64|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,835|3,113|229|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|3,029|2,926|844|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,297|2,854|1,528|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|4,464|2,990|58|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|5,237|2,398|23|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|5,084|2,154|785|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|5,059|3,372|95|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,041|2,571|19|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|5,275|2,558|449|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|4,487|4,062|0|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|6,282|3,097|39|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|6,503|2,693|15|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|6,978|2,584|14|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|5,318|2,809|62|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|6,101|2,843|18|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|6,398|3,592|23|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|4,886|4,368|74|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|4,571|3,812|112|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|6,197|1,876|45|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|4,559|603|2,320|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,194|606|194|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,496|1,980|234|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|1,577|1,098|1,436|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|2,875|1,129|306|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,128|691|273|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|3,425|1,266|97|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|3,314|1,480|86|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|2,456|1,444|277|Illinois}}
As a part of [[Yankee]]-settled [[Northern Illinois]], Carroll County became solidly Republican upon that party's formation in the 1850s. Of all the counties won by inaugural Republican Party presidential nominee [[John C. Frémont|John Charles Frémont]] [[1856 United States presidential election|in 1856]], Carroll County was to maintain the longest unbroken string of supporting the GOP in subsequent elections. It would give a plurality to every subsequent Republican Presidential nominee up to [[George W. Bush]] in 2004, beating by three elections the second longest run of Indiana's [[Porter County, Indiana|Porter County]] which was to give a plurality to [[Bill Clinton]] [[United States presidential election in Indiana, 1996|in 1996]].

In that 1996 election [[Bob Dole]] won Carroll County by only 1.51 percentage points – the smallest margin by a Republican to that point – and in 2008 Illinois native [[Barack Obama]] broke this last remaining GOP streak stretching back to Frémont by carrying the county by 4.80 percentage points. Obama was to repeat his win in 2012 by 1.49 percent, but a dramatic swing to Republican Donald Trump in 2016 saw him win by the largest margin since [[Ronald Reagan]]’s 1984 landslide by gaining 59.6% of the vote in Carroll County, scoring slightly higher than George H.W. Bush's victory in 1988 in which Bush won 59.4% of the vote in Carroll County.

The largest margin of victory ever in Carroll County was achieved by [[Warren G. Harding]] who won 86.7% of votes in the county during the [[1920 United States presidential election]].