Editing Stevens County, Kansas (section)

==Government==

===County===
Stevens County is governed by the Stevens County Commissioners. The current members are Joe D. Thompson, Tron Stegman, and Shannon Crawford.

===Presidential elections===
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|1,595|210|30|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|1,760|237|34|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,599|220|72|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,749|252|33|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|1,815|283|29|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,936|310|19|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,714|345|52|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,548|405|231|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|1,408|390|679|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,642|612|53|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,863|386|22|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,502|478|105|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|1,262|901|42|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,392|408|69|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|1,157|528|297|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|992|1,006|22|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|1,405|630|9|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|1,273|565|7|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|1,480|423|15|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|822|666|33|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|760|414|2|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|851|674|21|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|701|1,023|6|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|578|1,225|57|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|1,133|300|10|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|913|302|157|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|876|346|39|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|391|646|131|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|117|237|251|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|258|215|62|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|122|40|28|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|66|89|1|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|48|101|0|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|85|0|185|Kansas}}
{{PresFoot|1888|Republican|307|268|174|Kansas}}
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Stevens County is overwhelmingly Republican. It has not been won by a Democrat at Presidential level since [[Lyndon Johnson]] won by fourteen votes in 1964. In fact, the last Democrat to crack thirty percent of the county's vote was [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1976, and since Carter only [[Michael Dukakis]] during the [[1988–89 North American drought|drought]] and farm crisis-influenced 1988 election has received so much as twenty percent.

=== Laws ===
The [[Kansas Constitution]] was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, either with or without a minimum of 30% of sales coming from food. Stevens County is one of 35 counties in the state that allows for the sale of liquor by the drink without the minimum food sales stipulation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 30, 2019|title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties|url=https://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/abcwetdrymap.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104064913/https://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/abcwetdrymap.pdf|archive-date=November 4, 2020|access-date=November 4, 2020|publisher=[[Kansas Department of Revenue]] Alcoholic Beverage Control}}</ref>