Editing McPherson County, South Dakota (section)

==Politics==
Except during the 1924, 1928 and 1932 elections when [[Prohibition in the United States|anti-Prohibition sentiment]] by the county's German Lutheran populace turned the county against [[Calvin Coolidge]] and [[Herbert Hoover]], McPherson County has been among the most overwhelmingly Republican jurisdictions in the country. Apart from these anomalous elections, the [[free silver]]-influenced 1896 election, and the 1936 Democratic landslide in the aftermath of Prohibition, the best performance by any Democrat has been [[Barack Obama]]’s 32 percent in 2008. In 1968<ref>{{cite web|author=David Leip|publisher=US Election Atlas|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1968&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=1968 Presidential Election Statistics|access-date=March 27, 2018}}</ref> and 1980<ref>{{cite web|author=David Leip|publisher=US Election Atlas|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/stats.php?year=1980&f=1&off=0&elect=0|title=1980 Presidential Election Statistics|access-date=March 27, 2018}}</ref> McPherson was among the five most Republican counties in the country, and in 1964 it was rivalled only by neighbouring [[Campbell County, South Dakota|Campbell County]] and the famous Republican bastions of [[Hooker County, Nebraska]] and [[Jackson County, Kentucky]] as [[Barry Goldwater]]’s best county outside the former Confederacy.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|1,087|188|24|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|1,075|222|27|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|892|192|53|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|921|272|22|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|915|441|19|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,180|369|30|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,073|295|49|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,080|463|192|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|945|478|329|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,358|571|7|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,813|418|5|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|2,056|287|59|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|1,662|693|12|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,950|579|6|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,105|389|126|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|1,891|723|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,354|616|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,225|633|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,915|436|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,034|611|23|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,290|410|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|2,839|826|0|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|1,921|1,556|28|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|606|2,650|46|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|1,234|1,468|9|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1924|Progressive|833|94|1,962|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,470|112|434|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|992|224|23|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|0|327|668|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|785|157|17|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|727|144|63|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|898|297|16|South Dakota}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|512|361|6|South Dakota}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|487|221|256|South Dakota}}