Editing Estill County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,091|1,114|85|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|5,100|1,355|85|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|4,236|1,108|201|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,749|1,356|79|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,685|1,555|74|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,633|1,907|35|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,033|1,591|86|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,220|1,724|506|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,453|1,837|749|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,077|1,692|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,512|1,593|17|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|2,818|1,965|78|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,250|2,034|30|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,054|1,322|23|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,236|1,261|677|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,996|2,105|1|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,238|1,755|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,946|1,912|10|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,630|1,900|20|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,056|1,937|104|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,493|2,000|24|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|2,889|2,587|10|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,931|2,646|13|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,963|3,150|23|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,641|1,886|5|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,152|2,052|220|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,552|1,823|12|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,524|1,180|21|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|869|875|371|Kentucky}}
Although it lies in the [[Bluegrass Region|Bluegrass]] and [[Knobs Region|Knobs]] regions, Estill County was more akin to the eastern [[Pennyroyal Plateau]] to its southwest in being strongly pro-[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] during [[American Civil War|the Civil War]]. Indeed, a larger proportion of Estill County's population volunteered for the [[Union Army]] than the population of any [[Slave states and free states|free state]],<ref>Marshall, Anne E.; ''Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State'', pp. 114-115 {{ISBN|1469609835}}</ref> or of any Kentucky county except the famous Republican bastion of [[Owsley County, Kentucky|Owsley County]].<ref>Copeland, James E.; ‘Where Were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists’; ''The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society'', volume 71, no. 4 (October 1973), pp. 344-363</ref> Consequently, Estill County has been strongly Republican ever since the end of [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]] – since 1888 the county has voted Democratic only for [[Woodrow Wilson]] in 1912, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1932 and [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964, with the biggest of these three victories in 1932 being FDR's by a mere one hundred and eighty-seven votes out of over six thousand one hundred.

===Elected officials===
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| colspan="3" |'''Elected officials as of January 3, 2025'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/smembers_county.html |title=Senate Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/hmembers_county.html |title=House Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>
|- 
! scope=row|[[U.S. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Andy Barr (American politician)|Andy Barr]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|6|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Brandon Smith (politician)|Brandon Smith]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 30th Senate district|30]]
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Billy Wesley|Bill Wesley]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|91
|}