Editing Ogle County, Illinois (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|1972|Republican|13,512|4,743|35|Illinois}}
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{{PresRow|1936|Republican|9,576|5,776|194|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|8,224|5,416|272|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|9,808|2,691|47|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|8,449|1,591|1,759|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|9,322|1,720|191|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|8,639|3,207|442|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|2,014|1,750|2,981|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|4,848|1,761|393|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|5,109|1,209|481|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,255|2,171|193|Illinois}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,210|2,142|177|Illinois}}
{{PresFoot|1892|Republican|3,939|2,244|316|Illinois}}

[[Image:Ogle County Judicial Center Oregon Il.jpg|thumb|right|The Ogle County Judicial Center, across the street from the [[Old Ogle County Courthouse]] in Oregon, Illinois]]
Along with its neighbor [[Lee County, Illinois|Lee County]], Ogle County is one of the most consistently [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] counties in the nation when it comes to presidential elections. Except for the 1912 election when the GOP was divided between [[Progressive Party (United States, 1912)|Progressive]] nominee [[Theodore Roosevelt]] and incumbent president [[William Howard Taft]], Ogle County has voted Republican in every Presidential election since the Republican Party first participated in 1856. No Democratic candidate has ever won the county, which favored the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]] before the Republican Party was formed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential election of 1840 - Map by counties |url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1840.htm |access-date=November 11, 2018 |website=geoelections.free.fr}}</ref>

Historically, Republicans have easily carried the county in statewide and national Democratic landslides. [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] never garnered more than 39 percent of the county's vote in any of his four runs for president, and [[Barry Goldwater]] won over 60 percent here in 1964–almost identical to [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s winning margin statewide. Illinois' own [[Barack Obama]] is the only Democrat to ever win at least 40 percent of the county's vote.

The county is part of [[Illinois's 16th congressional district]]. represented by Republican [[Darin LaHood]].