Editing Clinton County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|4,276|549|66|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|4,280|603|49|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|3,809|547|106|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|3,569|752|72|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|3,366|761|45|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|3,369|952|31|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|3,224|1,032|49|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,521|1,072|383|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,830|1,241|365|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|3,248|899|28|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,459|838|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|3,539|1,000|51|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,354|987|48|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,632|659|16|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,572|568|285|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,351|994|24|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|3,524|666|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,396|747|4|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,856|678|12|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,295|709|88|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,618|564|3|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|2,573|755|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,147|701|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|2,422|908|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,580|325|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,069|543|17|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,356|431|11|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,260|379|14|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Republican|828|310|131|Kentucky}}
Clinton County, like other counties in South Central and Southeastern Kentucky, has voted overwhelmingly Republican in presidential elections ever since [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]] ended. Counties in the [[Appalachian Mountains]] were less conducive to large-scale [[plantation]] farming that utilized [[Slavery|slave labor]] and thus were more resistant to [[Secession in the United States|secession]] from the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]]. Clinton County, being located on the western foothills of the [[Cumberland Plateau]], reflected this with its voting patterns, having voted Republican even through the several party [[Political realignment|realignments]] since Reconstruction. Relative to population, Clinton County was a leader in providing soldiers for the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War|U.S. Civil War]], seeing 12.54% of its white population volunteer for Union service, exceeded only by the now-similarly Republican [[Owsley County, Kentucky|Owsley]], [[Estill County, Kentucky|Estill]] and [[Clay County, Kentucky|Clay]] counties.<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> 

The last Democrat to carry Clinton County was [[Horatio Seymour]] in 1868 – when party realignment was just beginning – and the last Democrat to pass so much as 30 percent of the county's vote was [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1888. Nor has any Republican in this time span – even [[William Howard Taft]] during the divided 1912 election – fallen short of 60 percent. [[Jackson County, Kentucky|Jackson County]] is the only other county in the United States that has seen no Democrat reach 30 percent since the beginning of the 1890s, and apart from these two only [[Hooker County, Nebraska]] has seen no Democrat reach 30 percent since 1940.

===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>
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! scope=row|[[U.S. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[James Comer]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|1|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Rick Girdler]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 15th Senate district|15]]
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Josh Branscum]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|83
|}