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==Politics== {{PresHead|place=Garrard County, Kentucky|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=July 1, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}} <!-- PresRow should be {{PresRow|Year|Winning party|GOP/Whig vote #|Dem vote #|3rd party vote #|State}} --> {{PresRow|2024|Republican|7,086|1,719|112|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2020|Republican|6,754|1,830|122|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2016|Republican|5,904|1,453|266|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2012|Republican|5,310|1,661|106|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2008|Republican|5,118|2,012|80|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2004|Republican|4,784|1,841|33|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|2000|Republican|4,043|1,713|67|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1996|Republican|2,540|1,486|345|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1992|Republican|2,359|1,730|708|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1988|Republican|2,681|1,710|64|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1984|Republican|3,284|1,566|36|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1980|Republican|2,585|1,774|121|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,045|1,887|56|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1972|Republican|3,143|1,441|73|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,205|1,000|722|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,828|2,092|15|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,759|1,780|0|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1956|Republican|2,311|1,798|24|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1952|Republican|2,398|1,927|6|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1948|Republican|1,890|1,725|82|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,042|1,764|14|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1940|Democratic|2,148|2,162|8|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1936|Democratic|2,252|2,276|7|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,276|2,582|1|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1928|Republican|2,862|1,729|0|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,592|2,126|27|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,994|2,434|41|Kentucky}} {{PresRow|1916|Republican|1,628|1,375|24|Kentucky}} {{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|481|1,232|1,062|Kentucky}} Garrard County is governed by the Garrard County Fiscal Court, composed of the '''[[County Judge/Executive|Judge Executive]]''', who is elected countywide, and five Magistrates who are elected in magisterial districts representing different geographic areas of the county. Each member of the Fiscal Court is elected to a four-year term, pursuant to the Kentucky Constitution. Magistrates are addressed by the honorific "Squire." The Fiscal Court is represented by the County Attorney. The County Clerk archives all court records and keeps the minutes of meetings. Garrard County lies at the northeastern end of the historically Unionist belt of Kentucky, covering the eastern [[Pennyroyal Plateau]], the southern tip of the Bluegrass Plateau, and the southwestern part of the [[Eastern Kentucky Coalfield|Eastern Coalfield]]. Although it only provided a modest level of volunteers for the [[Union Army]] during [[Kentucky in the American Civil War|the Civil War]] and had a very high proportion of slave owners amongst its 1860 electorate,<ref>Copeland, James E.; ‘Where Were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists’; ''The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society'', vol. 71, no. 4 (October 1973), pp. 344–363</ref> Garrard County nonetheless came to form the northernmost border of the rock-ribbed Republican bloc of south-central Kentucky that includes such counties as [[Clinton County, Kentucky|Clinton]], [[Cumberland County, Kentucky|Cumberland]], [[Russell County, Kentucky|Russell]], [[Casey County, Kentucky|Casey]], [[Pulaski County, Kentucky|Pulaski]], [[Laurel County, Kentucky|Laurel]], [[Rockcastle County, Kentucky|Rockcastle]], [[Monroe County, Kentucky|Monroe]], [[McCreary County, Kentucky|McCreary]], [[Clay County, Kentucky|Clay]], [[Jackson County, Kentucky|Jackson]], [[Owsley County, Kentucky|Owsley]] and [[Leslie County, Kentucky|Leslie]]. The only Democratic presidential candidates to carry Garrard County since the end of Reconstruction have been [[Woodrow Wilson]] in 1912, [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1932, 1936 and 1940, and [[Lyndon Johnson]] in 1964, and Roosevelt only won by 24 votes over [[Alf Landon]] and 14 votes over [[Wendell Willkie]]. Since 1944, when Thomas Dewey defeated Franklin Roosevelt by 278 votes, Garrard has voted Democratic in a presidential contest only once. ===Elected officials=== {| class=wikitable |- | 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}}|[[Donald Douglas (politician)|Donald Douglas]] (R) | {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 22nd Senate district|22]] |- ! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]] | {{party shading/Republican}}|[[David Meade]] (R) | {{party shading/Republican}}|80 |}
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