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==Politics== [[File:Barack Obama luncheon in Cairo, Illinois (April 15, 2004).jpg|thumb|left|April 15, 2004, [[Barack Obama]] speaks at a luncheon in the city of Cairo, during his [[United States Senate election in Illinois, 2004|US Senate campaign]]]] Alexander County is unique among [[slave states and free states|antebellum free state]] rural counties in having a postbellum political history largely determined by a significant black electorate. It is most similar in this respect to β though still substantially different from β some counties of the [[Southern Maryland|south]] and [[Eastern Shore of Maryland|the Eastern Shore]] of [[Maryland]]. The county was thus solidly Republican until the [[New Deal]], and gradually turned solidly Democratic up through the [[presidency of Bill Clinton]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} In the twenty-first century, the county has shown a trend towards the GOP due to large-scale black emigration and a rapid swing of its Caucasian population toward Republican candidates.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} This became clear in [[2016 United States presidential election in Illinois|2016]], when [[Donald Trump]] carried the county by 8.3 pointsβa hard swing from favorite son [[Barack Obama|Obama's]] 13.6-point victory four years earlier, and the first time the county voted Republican since [[1972 United States presidential election in Illinois|1972]]. An even harder swing was taken in [[2020 United States presidential election in Illinois|2020]], when he carried Alexander again by 14.2 points, even as the nation as a whole trended slightly leftward. Furthermore, [[Dick Durbin]] lost the county in the [[2020 United States Senate election in Illinois|simultaneous U.S. Senate election]], making it his first Senate election in which he failed to win the county and the first Senate election since [[1972 United States Senate election in Illinois|1972]] in which a Republican won the county.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} Despite the rightward swing taken by the county, the city and county seat of [[Cairo, Illinois|Cairo]] remains overwhelmingly Democratic.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}} {{PresHead|place=Alexander County, Illinois|source=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=October 29, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|1,341|904|31|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|1,486|1,114|21|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,496|1,262|62|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2012|Democratic|1,487|1,965|49|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|1,692|2,189|66|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2004|Democratic|1,831|2,016|26|Illinois}} {{PresRow|2000|Democratic|1,588|2,357|77|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,212|2,753|339|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,301|2,566|495|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,954|2,693|16|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1984|Democratic|2,574|2,872|21|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1980|Democratic|2,650|2,925|103|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|2,349|3,246|63|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,669|2,482|58|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1968|Democratic|2,540|2,929|1,465|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|2,895|4,763|0|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|4,143|4,477|18|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|4,425|4,167|21|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|5,219|4,305|29|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|4,561|4,641|96|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|4,792|4,767|78|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|6,260|6,591|137|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|5,553|6,972|128|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|4,729|5,653|151|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|5,666|3,558|28|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|4,465|2,639|581|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,287|3,167|85|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|5,395|3,940|170|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1912|Republican|2,003|1,936|854|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|3,790|2,027|119|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,203|1,686|186|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,790|1,760|42|Illinois}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|2,802|1,813|28|Illinois}} {{PresFoot|1892|Republican|2,053|1,674|80|Illinois}}
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