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===Federal=== All of Cape Girardeau County is included in [[MO-08|Missouri's 8th Congressional District]] and is currently represented by [[Jason Smith (American politician)|Jason Smith]] (R-[[Salem, Missouri|Salem]]) in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]]. Smith was elected to a fifth term in [[2020 United States House of Representatives elections|2020]] over Democratic challenger Kathy Ellis. {{Election box begin | title=U.S. House of Representatives β Missouriβs 8th Congressional District β Cape Girardeau County (2020)}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = '''Jason Smith''' |votes = '''29,028''' |percentage = '''72.93%''' |change = '''-0.54''' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Kathy Ellis |votes = 10,036 |percentage = 25.21% |change = +0.25 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Libertarian Party (United States) |candidate = Tom Schmitz |votes = 739 |percentage = 1.86% |change = +0.29 }} {{Election box end}} {{Election box begin|title=U.S. House of Representatives β Missouri's 8th Congressional District β Cape Girardeau County (2018)}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = '''Jason Smith''' |votes = '''23,687''' |percentage = '''73.47%''' |change = '''-0.94''' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Kathy Ellis |votes = 8,048 |percentage = 24.96% |change = +2.66 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Libertarian Party (United States) |candidate = Jonathan L. Shell |votes = 505 |percentage = 1.57% |change = -1.72 }} {{Election box end}} Cape Girardeau County, along with the rest of the state of Missouri, is represented in the [[U.S. Senate]] by [[Josh Hawley]] (R-[[Columbia, Missouri|Columbia]]) and [[Roy Blunt]] (R-[[Strafford, Missouri|Strafford]]). {{Election box begin|title=U.S. Senate β Class I β Cape Girardeau County (2018)}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = '''Josh Hawley''' |votes = '''22,964''' |percentage = '''70.65%''' |change = '''+16.98''' }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Claire McCaskill |votes = 8,886 |percentage = 27.34% |change = -13.49 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Libertarian Party (United States) |candidate = Japheth Campbell |votes = 307 |percentage = 0.95% |change = -4.55 }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Independent (politician) |candidate = Craig O'Dear |votes = 232 |percentage = 0.71% |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Green Party (United States) |candidate = Jo Crain |votes = 114 |percentage = 0.35% |change = +0.35 }} {{Election box end}} Blunt was elected to a second term in [[2016 United States Senate elections|2016]] over then-Missouri Secretary of State [[Jason Kander]]. {{Election box begin|title=U.S. Senate - Class III - Cape Girardeau County (2016)}} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Republican Party (United States) |candidate = '''Roy Blunt''' |votes = '''24,173''' |percentage = '''65.66%''' |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Democratic Party (United States) |candidate = Jason Kander |votes = 11,219 |percentage = 30.47% |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Libertarian Party (United States) |candidate = Jonathan Dine |votes = 863 |percentage = 2.34% |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Green Party (United States) |candidate = Johnathan McFarland |votes = 289 |percentage = 0.79% |change = }} {{Election box candidate with party link| |party = Constitution Party (United States) |candidate = Fred Ryman |votes = 268 |percentage = 0.73% |change = }} {{Election box end}} ====Political culture==== {{PresHead|place=Cape Girardeau County, Missouri|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 24, 2018}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|29,315|10,561|661|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|28,907|10,760|759|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|27,017|8,492|1,802|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|25,370|9,728|731|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|24,768|12,208|470|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|23,814|10,568|183|Missouri}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|19,832|9,334|693|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|15,557|9,957|2,108|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|13,464|9,605|5,286|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|16,583|7,904|69|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|17,404|7,346|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|14,861|8,625|1,063|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|12,607|10,440|117|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|15,693|6,280|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|10,298|6,656|2,351|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|8,776|11,431|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|11,331|8,172|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|10,638|7,633|0|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|10,729|7,933|22|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1948|Democratic|7,084|7,872|15|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|8,339|6,845|11|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1940|Republican|9,297|8,642|39|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|7,374|8,892|64|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|5,796|8,394|117|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|7,344|5,464|21|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|6,076|4,967|623|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|7,537|4,584|152|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|3,753|2,993|127|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1912|Democratic|2,203|2,587|1,064|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1908|Republican|3,381|2,621|89|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,090|2,187|210|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1900|Republican|2,778|2,318|187|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1896|Republican|2,482|2,473|49|Missouri}} {{PresRow|1892|Republican|2,203|1,996|407|Missouri}} {{PresFoot|1888|Republican|2,198|1,894|216|Missouri}} Cape Girardeau County is something of an outlier in southern Missouri. Unusually for a rural [[Southern United States|Southern]] county (straddling the [[Mississippi embayment]]), it has generally voted Republican since the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], this was due to Unionist sentiment in the county. In contrast, much of southern Missouri was solidly Democratic for much of the 20th century before swinging heavily Republican at the turn of the millennium. After voting for Lincoln in 1864 and Grant in 1868, Cape Girardeau County voted Democratic four times in a row. Since 1888, it has voted Democratic only in Franklin Roosevelt's and Lyndon Johnson's 40-state landslides of 1932, 1936, and 1964; in the three-way race in 1912 (when it gave Woodrow Wilson a plurality); and for Missouri native Harry Truman in 1948. Unlike most demographically similar counties, it rejected [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976; Carter is the last Democrat to manage even 40 percent of the county's vote.<ref>{{Cite web|title=County winners, 1836-2016|url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZmDRzvm83BYurKX7LsrET-C7tcIsE5Em42Wt-gTydXk/edit?usp=embed_facebook|access-date=January 16, 2021|website=Google Docs|language=en-US}}</ref> Like most areas throughout rural Missouri, voters in Cape Girardeau County generally adhere to socially and culturally [[Conservatism|conservative]] principles which have influenced their shift to Republicans. In 2004, Missourians voted on [[Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2004)|a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the union between a man and a woman]]βit overwhelmingly passed Cape Girardeau County with 83.19 percent of the vote. The initiative passed the state with 71 percent of support, as Missouri became the first state to ban [[same-sex marriage]]. In 2006, Cape Girardeau County voted against a state [[Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (2006)|constitutional amendment to fund and legalize embryonic stem cell research]], with 63.12 percent opposed. The initiative narrowly passed the state with 51 percent of support, and Missouri became one of the first states to approve such research. Cape Girardeau County's voters have supported such [[Populism|populist]] causes as increasing the [[minimum wage]]. In 2006, Cape Girardeau County voted to increase the minimum wage to $6.50 an hour with 60.04 percent of the vote. The proposition strongly passed every county in Missouri, with 75.94 percent voting in favor. (During the same election, voters in five other states also strongly approved increases in the minimum wage.)
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