Editing McCreary County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|5,531|641|40|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|5,664|725|49|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,012|664|100|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|4,564|1,069|74|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|4,078|1,258|71|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,121|1,530|42|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,321|1,418|60|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,527|1,710|558|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|3,588|1,934|688|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,477|1,644|72|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|4,028|1,609|70|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,786|1,377|149|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|3,272|1,827|43|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,203|684|89|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,670|759|520|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,230|1,428|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,671|924|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,812|814|4|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,360|937|12|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|3,031|933|28|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|3,419|880|2|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,172|1,248|9|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,953|1,105|11|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|3,360|1,194|22|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,622|435|8|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,317|533|240|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,889|525|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,630|324|27|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Progressive|411|225|596|Kentucky}}

McCreary County has only once voted for a non-Republican for president, in the year of its formation, when it voted for [[Theodore Roosevelt]] of the [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive Party]], with President William Howard Taft second and Democrat Woodrow Wilson a distant third at 18.1%.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n2MTAAAAYAAJ&q=editions:6gVxSv1pGsAC |title=The Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year Book for 1913, Vol. 29 |publisher=Chicago Daily News |year=1913 |location=Chicago}}</ref> This trend has only strengthened in recent elections, with Republican [[Donald Trump]] winning 89.05% of the vote in 2024, the highest vote share for a Republican in the county since [[Herbert Hoover]] in 1928.

===Local government===
* [[County Judge/Executive|Judge Executive]] — Hon. Jimmie "Bevo" Greene II (R)
* Deputy Judge Executive — Vacant
* [[State court magistrate judge#County Magistrates in Kentucky|County Magistrates]]:
** Magistrate Dist. 1 — William "Bill" Hale Jr. (R)
** Magistrate Dist. 2 — Bill Taylor (R)
** Magistrate Dist. 3 — Bobbie Strunk (R)
** Magistrate Dist. 4 — Randy Maxwell (R)
* [[County Clerk]] — Eric Haynes (R)
* [[Sheriff#Kentucky|Sheriff]] — David Sampson (R)
* [[Prison officer|Jailer]] — Jesse Hatfield (R)
* Coroner — Timothy L. Corder (R)
* Tourism Director — Michelle Perry
* Economic Development Director — Vacant
* Property Valuation Administrator — Dwight Ross
* McCreary County Attorney — Austin Price

The [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]] [[U.S. Penitentiary, McCreary]] is in the county, near [[Pine Knot, Kentucky|Pine Knot]].<ref name="PineKnotMap" /><ref>[http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=mcr USP McCreary Contact Information] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203062339/http://www.bop.gov/DataSource/execute/dsFacilityAddressLoc?start=y&facilityCode=mcr |date=December 3, 2010 }}. [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]. Retrieved February 22, 2011. "USP MCCREARY U.S. PENITENTIARY 330 FEDERAL WAY PINE KNOT, KY 42635."</ref>

===Elected officials===
{| class=wikitable
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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}}|[[Hal Rogers]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|5|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Robert Stivers]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 25th Senate district|25]]
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Ken Upchurch]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|52
|}