Editing Jackson County, Missouri (section)

==Politics==
Jackson County is a solidly Democratic county and has remained so even as most other parts of the state of Missouri have trended rightward. The last Republican presidential candidate to carry the county was [[Richard Nixon]] in [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]], the only Republican to do so since 1932. [[John Ashcroft]] was the last Republican gubernatorial candidate in [[1988 Missouri gubernatorial election|1988]] and [[Kit Bond]] for the Senate in [[1998 United States Senate election in Missouri|1998]]. [[Tom Schweich]] is the last Statewide Republican candidate to win the county in his landslide victory for State Auditor in [[2014 Missouri State Auditor election|2014]].

The county's Democratic lean is due almost entirely to the presence of Kansas City. In 2008, for example, [[John McCain]] barely carried the areas of the county outside Kansas City, but [[Barack Obama]] carried Kansas City by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, enough for him to carry the county as a whole with 62 percent of the vote.

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|125,610|187,026|7,092|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|126,535|199,842|7,678|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|116,211|168,972|19,504|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|122,708|183,953|5,400|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|124,687|210,824|3,755|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|130,500|183,654|1,839|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|104,418|160,419|7,225|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|85,534|140,317|23,807|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|78,611|145,999|67,027|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|107,810|147,964|793|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|132,271|135,067|0|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|106,156|135,805|14,726|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|101,401|130,120|3,920|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|129,989|92,830|0|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|91,086|112,154|28,980|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|78,766|161,290|0|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|123,589|142,869|0|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|122,182|133,522|0|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|133,093|138,792|412|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|86,471|139,186|870|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|95,406|113,803|423|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|101,568|137,285|366|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|79,119|215,120|1,080|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|83,214|172,456|1,215|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|126,589|96,703|385|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|91,141|76,002|8,839|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|79,875|76,791|1,548|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|32,943|44,556|1,530|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|5,618|32,209|25,367|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|26,998|31,461|1,301|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|25,794|20,582|2,145|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|21,581|22,542|1,083|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|18,711|20,705|446|Missouri}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|11,044|15,825|1,438|Missouri}}
{{PresFoot|1888|Democratic|14,350|15,663|752|Missouri}}