Editing Saratoga County, New York (section)

==Government==
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Saratoga County is governed by a Board Of Supervisors, with each town Supervisor acting as the representative from that community. The City of Saratoga Springs elects two Supervisors and the City of Mechanicville elects one supervisor to sit on the Board of Supervisors, but have no power in their respective city governments. The Town of Clifton Park also elects two Supervisors, one being the elected Town Supervisor, and one having only County duties. Voting is by weighted vote of each of the communities based on population, which is the reason why Saratoga Springs and Clifton Park, the two largest communities in Saratoga County, elect two Supervisors. The political makeup of the 2016-17 Board consists of 21 [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], and two [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]]. By long-standing tradition, whoever serves as chairman of the Board of Supervisor's powerful Law and Finance Committee one year serves as chairman of the full Board the following year—a tradition that has been broken only three times in Saratoga County's history. Under this custom, current Law and Finance Committee Chairman Arthur "Mo" Wright, the Supervisor of the Town of Hadley, is slated to become chairman of the full Board in 2016. Republicans hold the county-wide offices of [[Sheriffs in the United States|sheriff]], [[District Attorney|district attorney]], county clerk, [[treasurer]], and judges of the county, family, and the surrogate courts.[[File:Saratoga County Airport.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Saratoga County Airport]], Saratoga Springs]]

On the presidential level, like most of the Hudson Valley, Saratoga County was historically powerfully Republican. It only supported a Democrat for president twice in the 20th century, in 1964 and 1996. The Republican edge narrowed somewhat in the 1990s and since then Saratoga County has been a Republican-leaning swing county. [[George W. Bush]] won the county narrowly in 2004 with 53% of the vote, while [[Barack Obama]] slightly edged out [[John McCain]] and [[Mitt Romney]] in both 2008 and 2012, becoming the first Democrat to win a majority in the county since 1964. In 2016, Saratoga County flipped back to the Republicans, with [[Donald Trump]] capturing a narrow plurality of the vote over [[Hillary Clinton]]. The flip proved to be temporary, with Democratic candidate [[Joe Biden]] winning the county in 2020.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Biden-flips-GOP-strongholds-Rensselaer-and-15737887.php | title=Biden wins GOP-rich Rensselaer and Saratoga counties | newspaper=Times Union | date=November 18, 2020 | last1=Munson | first1=Emilie | archive-date=November 26, 2020 | access-date=November 24, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126031112/https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Biden-flips-GOP-strongholds-Rensselaer-and-15737887.php | url-status=live }}</ref>

The county is represented in the [[U.S. Congress]] by Republican [[Elise Stefanik]] and Democrat [[Paul Tonko]]. In the State Senate, the county is divided between Republicans [[Daphne Jordan]] and [[Jim Tedisco]], while in the State Assembly Democrats [[John T. McDonald III]] and [[Carrie Woerner]], along with Republicans [[Mary Beth Walsh]] and [[Dan Stec]], each represent portions of the county.

[[James A. Murphy III]], a Republican, is the County Court Judge and a former District Attorney. James A. Bowen had been the dean of NYS Sheriffs, having served as Sheriff since 1972, when he was appointed by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. Bowen won election in his own right in 1973 and had been elected every four years up until his retirement at the end of his tenth term in office in 2013. Michael H. Zurlo is the current Sheriff, winning the election to succeed Bowen in 2013. Democratic strength is best shown in the City of [[Saratoga Springs]], which has voted Democratic in every presidential election since 1988. Republican strength is concentrated in the western part of the county, which is mostly [[rural]] or [[exurban]]. In 2005, the Democrats gained a majority on the Saratoga Springs City Council after decades of Republican dominance. The Republicans, however, reclaimed the council majority in the 2007 General Elections due to a split Democratic Party in the mayor's race. In 2009, the Republicans reclaimed their supermajority (4-1) on the City Council, by winning every contested election (Mayor, Finance, Public Safety, and Public Works). In 2011, Democrats reclaimed the Majority on the City Council, while Republican Scott Johnson was reelected as Mayor. The Current City Council (2016-2017) is 4-1 Democratic led by Mayor Meg Kelly. At the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, the city is split, with one Republican and one Democrat holding the two Supervisor seats.

===State Assembly===
* [[John T. McDonald III|John McDonald]], Democratic, 108th District
* [[Mary Beth Walsh]], Republican, 112th District
* [[Carrie Woerner]], Democratic, 113th District
* [[Dan Stec]], Republican, 114th District

===State Senate===
* [[Daphne Jordan]], Republican, 43rd District
* [[Jim Tedisco]], Republican, 49th District

===United States House of Representatives===
* [[Paul Tonko]], Democratic, 20th District
* [[Elise Stefanik]], Republican, 21st District