Editing Marshall County, Kansas (section)

==Government==

===Presidential elections===
Marshall County is, in common with most rural regions of the Great Plains states, a predominantly Republican county. The county has not been carried by a Democratic candidate in a presidential election since 1932,  and has only failed to back the Republican candidate in two other elections from 1888 on. The closest Democrats have come to winning the county since 1932 was in 1964, when [[Barry Goldwater]] only won it by 98 votes in the midst of a national landslide by [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], and 1992 when [[George H. W. Bush]] only won it by eight votes in conjunction with independent candidate [[Ross Perot]] winning a significant share of the vote.
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,644|1,205|119|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|3,729|1,259|126|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,307|1,072|294|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,195|1,469|109|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,157|1,784|95|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,261|1,789|58|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,066|1,831|218|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,811|1,932|757|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,030|2,022|1,806|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,140|2,560|90|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,098|1,813|72|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|4,127|1,555|415|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|6,187|5,366|307|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|4,127|1,823|148|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|3,835|1,949|733|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|3,432|3,334|56|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|4,932|2,931|28|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|5,664|2,487|28|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|6,851|2,215|26|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|5,122|3,148|59|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|6,184|2,681|21|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|7,286|3,588|57|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|5,929|5,238|24|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|4,455|5,970|119|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|6,918|3,329|69|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|5,809|2,369|1,139|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|5,706|2,026|252|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,581|4,275|291|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|1,492|2,278|1,759|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|3,296|2,514|85|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|3,530|1,564|243|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|3,413|2,669|53|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|3,052|2,776|70|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|2,531|0|3,054|Kansas}}
{{PresFoot|1888|Republican|2,547|1,815|908|Kansas}}
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===Laws===
Marshall County was a prohibition, or [[dry county|"dry"]], county until the [[Kansas Constitution]] was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 percent food sales requirement.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm |title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties |publisher=Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue |date=November 2006 |access-date=December 28, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008013617/http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2007 }}</ref>