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==Government== Most government offices in the county are located at the Douglas County Courthouse complex, about {{convert|1|mi|km|adj=on}} south of the downtown area of Douglasville. The exception is the Douglas County Board of Education, located adjacent to Hunter Park. The Douglas County Chamber of Commerce is located in downtown Douglasville. The county courthouse was constructed in 1997β98 and opened in 1998 after the county services needed a new courthouse for the ever-growing and changing county. The services prior to the opening were scattered all over downtown Douglasville in seven or eight office buildings. The old Douglas County courthouse, built in 1956, remains in downtown and is now used as a museum and a satellite school for the [[University of West Georgia]] an institution of the [[University System of Georgia]] with the main campus located in the city of [[Carrollton, Georgia|Carrollton]] in [[Carroll County, Georgia|Carroll County]],<ref name="GR6" /> which is included in the [[Atlanta Metropolitan Area]] historically, a commercial center for several mostly rural counties in both Georgia and Alabama. Douglas County is governed by the Douglas County Board of Commissioners with an elected chairman and commissioners from Douglas County's four districts. ===Politics=== In presidential elections, Douglas County had been a reliably Republican county between [[1980 United States presidential election in Georgia|1980]] and [[2004 United States presidential election in Georgia|2004]], voting Republican by a double-digit margin even in [[1992 United States presidential election in Georgia|1992]], when Democrat [[Bill Clinton]] carried the state of Georgia. The county gave over 60% of the vote to Republican [[George W. Bush]] in both of his presidential runs in [[2000 United States presidential election in Georgia|2000]] and 2004. The county has since become increasingly Democratic, voting for Democrats since [[2008 United States presidential election in Georgia|2008]]. In [[2024 United States presidential election in Georgia|2024]], Democrat [[Kamala Harris]] won 65% of the vote, the highest share of the vote in the county since [[1976 United States presidential election in Georgia|1976]]. {{PresHead|place=Douglas County, Georgia|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=March 19, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Democratic|23,996|46,240|917|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2020|Democratic|25,454|42,814|871|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2016|Democratic|24,817|31,005|2,301|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2012|Democratic|26,241|28,441|697|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2008|Democratic|26,812|27,825|560|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|25,846|15,997|281|Georgia}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|18,893|11,162|909|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|14,495|9,631|2,351|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|13,349|8,869|4,439|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|13,493|5,086|99|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|12,428|4,371|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|6,945|6,807|486|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1976|Democratic|3,959|7,805|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|6,610|982|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1968|American Independent|1,848|1,242|4,159|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,315|2,501|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1960|Democratic|1,136|2,576|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1956|Democratic|1,001|2,111|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1952|Democratic|645|2,102|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|1,019|1,336|991|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1944|Democratic|280|828|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|195|833|5|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|237|1,015|3|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|57|1,013|17|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|606|452|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1924|Democratic|86|355|134|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|475|427|0|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1916|Democratic|61|416|78|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1912|Progressive|18|266|307|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1908|Populist|181|152|192|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1904|Populist|133|230|281|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1900|Democratic|300|345|93|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|641|463|17|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1892|Democratic|234|467|493|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1888|Democratic|151|493|4|Georgia}} {{PresRow|1884|Democratic|205|458|0|Georgia}} {{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|124|482|0|Georgia}} {| class="wikitable" |- ! colspan="3" | Board of Commissioners |- ! District ! Commissioner !Party |- {{Party shading/Democratic}} | CHAIR (at-large) | Dr. Romona Jackson Jones |Democratic |- {{Party shading/Democratic}} | District 1 | Henry Mitchell III |Democratic |- {{Party shading/Democratic}} | District 2 | Whitney Kenner Jones |Democratic |- {{Party shading/Democratic}} | District 3 | Martin Raxton |Democratic |- {{Party shading/Republican}} | District 4 | Mark Alcarez |Republican |} ===Law enforcement=== {{unreferenced section|date=April 2024}} Douglas County [[Law enforcement agency|law enforcement]] is handled by the Douglas County Sheriffs Department. Inside Douglasville [[city limit]]s, law enforcement is handled by the Douglasville Police Department.
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