Editing Jersey County, Illinois (section)

==Government==
===Local===
{{Illinois county elected officials
| name              =Jersey County, Illinois
| assessor          =
| assessorparty     =
| auditor             =
| auditorparty    =
|boardchair =Gary Krueger
|boardchairparty=Republican
|boardmajority=11-1
|boardmajorityparty=Republican
|circuitclerk      = Daniel Schetter
| circuitclerkparty =Republican
| countyclerk       =Pam Warford
| countyclerkparty  =Republican
| coroner             =Kevin Ayres
| coronerparty    =Republican
| recorder          =
| recorderparty     =
| statesattorney        =Benjamin L. Goetten
| statesattorneyparty   =Democratic
| sheriff           =Nicholas Manns
| sheriffparty      =Independent
| superintendent    =Michelle Mueller
| superintendentparty     =Democratic
| treasurer         =Katie Steckel-Abbey
| treasurerparty    =Republican
}}

The [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]] holds five of eight countywide elected positions as of 2022 as well as an eleven to one majority on the county board.<ref>SEARCH FOR LOCAL OFFICIALS - JERSEY COUNTY CLERK https://www.jerseycountyclerk-il.gov/search/</ref>

Jersey County is part of Regional Office of Education #40 which includes neighboring [[Macoupin County, Illinois|Macoupin]], [[Calhoun County, Illinois|Calhoun]] and [[Greene County, Illinois|Greene]] counties. The office operates a facility in Jerseyville.

===State===
Jersey County is divided into two legislative districts in the [[Illinois House of Representatives]]:
* District 100 - Currently represented by [[C. D. Davidsmeyer]] (R-[[Jacksonville, Illinois|Jacksonville]]) and consists of the majority of the county and includes the cities of Jerseyville and Grafton.
* District 111 - Currently represented by [[Amy Elik]] (R-[[Fosterburg, Illinois|Fosterburg]]) and consists of the southern portion of the county and includes the village of Elsah.

The county is also divided into two legislative districts in the [[Illinois Senate]]:
* District 50 - Currently represented by [[Steve McClure (politician)|Steve McClure]] (R-[[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]) and consists of the majority of the county and includes the cities of Jerseyville and Grafton.
* District 56 - Currently represented by [[Kristopher Tharp]] (D-[[Wood River, Illinois|Wood River]]) and consists of the southern portion of the county and includes the village of Elsah.
As of February 2025, the county is one of 7 that voted to join the state of Indiana.<ref>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/illinois-counties-secession-vote-indiana-j-b-pritzker-todd-huston-5a93d624</ref>

===Federal===
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{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|2,933|4,749|2,411|Illinois}}
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{{PresRow|1972|Republican|5,164|3,317|26|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,806|3,350|974|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|3,041|3,936|0|Illinois}}
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{{PresRow|1952|Republican|4,031|3,424|6|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|3,021|3,092|26|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|3,546|2,910|30|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,958|3,692|44|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|3,023|3,955|83|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,157|3,807|105|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,993|2,473|14|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|2,460|2,723|353|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,873|1,999|90|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|2,644|3,052|135|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|838|1,573|446|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|1,460|1,818|104|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|1,531|1,713|136|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|1,496|2,145|92|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|1,641|2,377|62|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|1,314|2,011|191|Illinois}}

Jersey County's federal political history is fairly typical of “anti-Yankee” Southern Illinois counties.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}} It voted solidly Democratic until [[Warren G. Harding]] carried the county in his record 1920 landslide. It voted Republican again in [[Herbert Hoover]]'s landslide of 1928, but otherwise was firmly Democratic until [[World War II]], when opposition to US involvement turned the county to [[Wendell Willkie]] and then [[Thomas E. Dewey]]. Between 1948 and 2004, Jersey County became something of a [[bellwether]] county, voting for every winning presidential candidate except in the Catholicism-influenced 1960 election, and that of 1988 which was heavily influenced by [[1988–89 North American drought|a major Midwestern drought]]. Disagreement with the Democratic Party's liberal views on social issues since the 1990s has caused a powerful swing back to the Republicans in the past quarter-century.<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> As is typical of the [[Upland South]], [[Hillary Clinton]] in 2016 did far worse than any previous Democrat, while [[Joe Biden]] performed marginally better in the 2020 election.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Jersey County is located in [[Illinois's 15th congressional district]] and is currently represented by [[Mary Miller (politician)|Mary Miller]] (R-[[Oakland, Illinois|Oakland]]) in the [[U.S. House of Representatives]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Edmondson |first=Catie |date=June 28, 2022 |title=In Illinois, MAGA Congresswoman Rallies to Oust Her G.O.P. Colleague |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/us/politics/mary-miller-rodney-davis-il.html |access-date=November 7, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>