Editing Peoria County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|36,896|40,564|2,262|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|38,252|43,578|2,143|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|35,633|38,060|5,409|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|36,774|40,209|1,428|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|34,579|45,906|1,219|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|41,051|41,121|599|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|36,398|38,604|1,810|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|30,990|37,383|5,729|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|30,718|38,099|12,511|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|37,605|35,253|372|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|45,607|36,830|462|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|47,815|28,276|7,419|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|46,526|34,606|991|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|50,324|27,264|444|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|37,021|30,937|6,147|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|33,327|47,360|0|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|45,529|39,061|86|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|50,888|30,145|108|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|49,245|33,955|139|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|35,018|31,026|308|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|34,171|32,837|243|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|34,911|42,009|301|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|25,425|48,063|1,377|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|25,166|37,605|945|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|31,024|23,150|739|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|25,243|6,343|11,526|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|24,541|9,453|3,188|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|18,615|18,718|1,145|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|9,229|8,364|4,427|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|10,828|8,898|909|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|11,868|5,697|1,570|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|10,700|9,433|514|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|10,486|9,068|344|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Democratic|7,266|8,053|605|Illinois}}

Prior to 1992, Peoria County, like most of central Illinois, was powerfully [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]. Usually, it only voted for [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] presidential candidates when they won nationally by a landslide. It began trending away from the GOP in the mid-1980s, as evidenced when [[Ronald Reagan]] only carried it with 55 percent of the vote in 1984 even as he was winning reelection in a landslide nationally.

From 1992 onward, the county has backed the Democratic candidate in every presidential election, though never by a margin greater than 10 percent aside from 2008 when Illinoisan [[Barack Obama]] won it by nearly 14 points. This relative closeness in results was most evident in 2004 when the county backed [[John Kerry]] over [[George W. Bush]] by only 70 votes.

In Congress, Peoria County is represented by Democrat [[Eric Sorensen (politician)|Eric Sorensen]] of [[Illinois's 17th congressional district]] and Republican [[Darin LaHood]] of the [[Illinois's 18th congressional district]].

In the [[Illinois Senate]], Peoria County is represented by Republican [[Win Stoller]] of the 37th Legislative District and Democrat [[Dave Koehler]] of the 46th Legislative District. In the [[Illinois House of Representatives]], Peoria County is represented by Republican [[Ryan Spain]] of the 73rd Representative District, Republican Travis Weaver of the 91st Representative District and Democrat [[Jehan Gordon-Booth]] of the 92nd Representative District.