Editing Kane County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
As one of the [[Yankee]]-settled and prosperous suburban "[[collar counties]]", Kane County was a stronghold of the [[Free Soil Party]] in its first few elections, being one of nine Illinois counties to give a plurality to [[Martin van Buren]] in 1848. Kane County then unsurprisingly became solidly Republican for the century and a half following that party's formation. It voted for the GOP presidential nominee in every election between 1856 and 2004 except that of 1912 when the Republican Party was mortally divided and [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] candidate [[Theodore Roosevelt]] carried the county with a majority of the vote over conservative incumbent [[William Howard Taft]].

The gradual shift of the GOP towards white [[Southern United States|Southern]] Evangelicals, however, has led the generally moderate electorate of Kane and the other "collar counties" to trend towards the Democratic Party. In 2008, Senator [[Barack Obama]] became the first Democrat to carry Kane County since [[Franklin Pierce]] in 1852, and the first ever to win an absolute majority of the county's vote (the previous two Democratic winners, Pierce and [[James K. Polk]] in 1844 had both gained only pluralities due to strong Free Soil votes). Obama won a plurality in 2012, and [[Hillary Clinton]] improved upon Obama's showing to become the second Democrat to win a majority in 2016. In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] had the best performance ever by a Democrat in the county, even besting Obama's 2008 victory.

Kane County is represented in the [[United States House of Representatives]] by Democrats [[Bill Foster (politician)|Bill Foster]] ([[Illinois's 11th congressional district|11th District]]), [[Raja Krishnamoorthi]] ([[Illinois's 8th congressional district|8th District]]), and [[Lauren Underwood]] ([[Illinois's 14th congressional district|14th District]]).<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 12, 2022 |title=2022 Cook PVI: District Map and List |url=https://www.cookpolitical.com/cook-pvi/2022-partisan-voting-index/district-map-and-list |access-date=December 3, 2023 |website=Cook Political Report |language=en}}</ref>

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{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|99,260|120,077|5,323|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|96,775|130,166|4,935|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|82,734|103,665|13,288|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|88,335|90,332|3,058|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|83,963|106,756|2,644|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|92,065|73,813|1,419|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|76,996|60,127|4,282|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|54,375|47,902|12,416|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|55,684|44,568|27,686|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|66,283|36,366|763|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|72,655|31,875|629|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|64,106|29,015|10,663|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|59,275|34,057|2,042|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|64,546|27,525|306|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|54,144|26,609|6,667|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|46,391|40,703|0|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|55,389|31,279|93|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|56,009|20,848|59|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|50,801|24,058|96|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|39,284|21,176|532|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|38,689|23,362|185|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|41,949|25,676|289|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|33,491|28,187|2,051|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|32,934|24,638|1,084|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|38,236|16,184|253|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|32,717|3,517|6,624|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|26,832|4,323|1,243|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|23,868|9,875|1,506|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|2,415|4,394|12,257|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|12,840|4,316|1,111|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|12,638|2,799|1,271|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|12,031|5,259|521|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|12,133|4,852|362|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|7,977|5,778|1,072|Illinois}}