Editing Genesee County, New York (section)

==Government and politics==
Genesee County is governed by a 9–member legislature headed by a chairperson. Genesee County is part of the 8th Judicial District of the [[New York Supreme Court]] and the 4th Department of the [[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Office !! District !! Area of the county !! Officeholder !! Party !! First took office
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| Congressman || [[New York's 24th congressional district]] || All<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/fc27.pdf | title = Congressional District 27 | last1 = W | first1 = Eric | date = April 2, 2012 | work = View 2012 Congressional Maps | publisher = The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment | location = [[Albany, New York]] | access-date = January 13, 2013}}</ref> || [[Claudia Tenney]] || Republican || 2021
|- {{party shading/Democratic}}
| State Senator || [[New York State Senate|61st State Senate District]] || All<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/fs61.pdf | title = Senate District 61 | last1 = W | first1 = Eric | date = March 2, 2012 | work = View 2012 Senate District Maps | publisher = The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment | location = [[Albany, New York]] | access-date = January 6, 2013}}</ref> || [[Sean Ryan (American politician)|Sean Ryan]] || Democratic || 2021
|- {{party shading/Republican}}
| State Assemblyman || [[New York State Assembly|139th State Assembly District]] || All <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/prop2012a/pa139.pdf | title = Assembly District 139 | last1 = W | first1 = Eric | date = January 25, 2012 | work = View Proposed 2012 Assembly District Maps | publisher = The New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment | location = [[Albany, New York]] | access-date = January 13, 2013}}</ref> || [[Stephen Hawley|Stephen M. Hawley]] || Republican || 2006
|}

===Presidential elections===
Genesee County is solidly Republican at the Presidential level with [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964 being the only Democrat to ever carry the county. Since then the closest a Democrat has gotten to winning the county was [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996 when he lost to [[Bob Dole]] by 3 percent. In 2024 [[Donald Trump]] received 66.8 percent of the vote which was the best result for a Republican since 1956 when [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] received 74.6 percent.

{{PresHead|place=Genesee County, New York|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 22, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|18,997|9,367|80|New York}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|18,876|9,625|716|New York}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|16,915|7,650|1,867|New York}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|14,607|9,601|538|New York}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|15,705|10,762|423|New York}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|16,725|10,331|524|New York}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|14,459|10,191|1,424|New York}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|10,821|10,074|3,343|New York}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|11,663|8,071|6,491|New York}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|14,182|9,945|205|New York}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|16,582|8,549|79|New York}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|11,650|10,677|2,162|New York}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|14,567|10,803|166|New York}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|17,107|8,631|73|New York}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|12,418|9,533|1,199|New York}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|8,114|15,713|14|New York}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|14,724|10,343|18|New York}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|17,614|5,986|0|New York}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|16,606|6,819|12|New York}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|12,650|7,024|468|New York}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|13,478|6,796|50|New York}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|14,503|6,664|62|New York}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|13,292|6,177|600|New York}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|11,881|6,152|302|New York}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|13,251|5,181|763|New York}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|11,101|3,384|1,057|New York}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|9,628|2,570|725|New York}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|5,590|2,802|290|New York}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|3,231|2,656|2,377|New York}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|5,794|3,171|341|New York}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|5,810|2,883|401|New York}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,385|3,267|350|New York}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,190|3,004|245|New York}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|4,289|3,250|710|New York}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|4,952|3,633|408|New York}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|4,631|3,643|427|New York}}
|}

===Law enforcement===
The primary law enforcement agency is the [[Genesee County Sheriff's Office (New York)|Genesee County Sheriff's Office]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sheriff's Office|url=https://www.co.genesee.ny.us/departments/sheriff/index.php|access-date=October 24, 2021|website=www.co.genesee.ny.us}}</ref>

In most counties in N.Y., the [[undersheriff]] is the [[Prison warden|warden]] of the county [[jail]].<ref>See N.Y. County Law, article 17, sections 652, found online at [http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menugetf.cgi?COMMONQUERY=LAWS NYPublicLaw], type in CNT, then Article 17, and finally click on 652.</ref> In Genesee County, the sheriff has ultimate authority to operate the 80-bed county jail, built in 1985. In this county, rather than an undersheriff, it is managed by a "jail superintendent" with 27 other employees and managers. The current Genesee County Jail was built in 1985.<ref name=jail>"County Law, Article 17, Section 650, acknowledges the Sheriff as an Officer of the Court; Correction Law, Article 20, Section 500C, designates the Sheriff as custodian of the County Jail," from [http://www.co.genesee.ny.us/dpt/sheriff/jail.html Genesee County government web site Jail page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110225192906/http://www.co.genesee.ny.us/dpt/sheriff/jail.html |date=February 25, 2011 }}. Accessed June 26, 2008.</ref>