Editing Nevada County, Arkansas (section)

==Government==

=== Government ===
The county government is a constitutional body granted specific powers by the [[Constitution of Arkansas]] and the [[Arkansas Code]]. The quorum court is the legislative branch of the county government and controls all spending and revenue collection. Representatives are called ''justices of the peace'' and are elected from county districts every even-numbered year. The number of districts in a county vary from nine to fifteen, and district boundaries are drawn by the county election commission. The Nevada County Quorum Court has nine members. Presiding over quorum court meetings is the ''county judge'', who serves as the [[chief operating officer]] of the county. The county judge is elected at-large and does not vote in quorum court business, although capable of vetoing quorum court decisions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quorum Courts |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/quorum-courts-6348/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Office of County Judge |url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/office-of-county-judge-5720/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=Encyclopedia of Arkansas |language=en-US}}</ref>
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|+Nevada County, Arkansas Elected countywide officials<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Nevada County – Welcome to Prescott, Arkansas |url=https://www.pnpartnership.org/nevada-county/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nevada {{!}} Association of Arkansas Counties |url=https://www.arcounties.org/counties/nevada/ |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=www.arcounties.org}}</ref><ref>https://www.arcounties.org/site/assets/files/6033/november_races.pdf</ref>
!Position
!Officeholder
!Party
|-style="background-color:#F48882;
|County Judge
|Mike Otwell
|Republican
|-style="background-color:#F48882;
|County Clerk
|Tammie Ann Rose
|Republican
|-style="background-color:#F48882;
|Circuit Clerk
|Rita Reyenga
|Republican
|-style="background-color:#92C5DE;
|Sheriff/Collector
|Danny Martin
|Democratic
|-
|Treasurer
|C. Lorelei Hale
|(Unknown)
|-style="background-color:#999999;
|Assessor
|Pam Box
|Independent
|-style="background-color:#F48882;
|Coroner
|David Gummeson
|Republican
|}
The composition of the Quorum Court following the 2024 elections is 5 Democrats and 4 Republicans. Justices of the Peace (members) of the Quorum Court following the elections are:<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Nevada County, Arkansas, elections, 2024 |url=https://ballotpedia.org/Nevada_County,_Arkansas,_elections,_2024 |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=Ballotpedia |language=en}}</ref>

* District 1: Dennis Pruitt (D) of Prescott
* District 2: Willie Wilson (D) of Prescott
* District 3: Patricia Grimes (D) of Prescott
* District 4: James Roy Cornelius (R) of Prescott
* District 5: Eric Jackson (D) of Prescott
* District 6: Herbert Coleman (D) of Rosston
* District 7: Regina Irizarry (R) of Buckner
* District 8: Todd Butler (R) of Emmet
* District 9: Tommy Poole (R) of Prescott

Additionally, the townships of Nevada County are entitled to elect their own respective constables, as set forth by the [[Constitution of Arkansas]]. Constables are largely of historical significance as they were used to keep the peace in rural areas when travel was more difficult.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What is a Constable? |url=https://www.uaex.uada.edu/business-communities/ced-blog/posts/2022/may/what-is-a-constable.aspx |access-date=2025-04-28 |website=What is a Constable? |language=en}}</ref> The township constables as of the 2024 elections are:<ref name=":1" />

* Alabama: Nelson Irizarry (D)
* Albany: Micah Stockton (R)
* Emmet: Ryan McBrayer (R)

=== Politics ===
Historically, the county was a stronghold of the [[Greenback Party]], controlling county offices from 1880 to 1884, and later a stronghold for the [[Populist Party (United States)|Populist Party]] in the 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hild |first=Matthew |title=Arkansas's Gilded Age: The Rise, Decline, and Legacy of Populism and Working-Class Protes |publisher=[[University of Missouri Press]] |year=2018 |isbn=9780826221667 |location=Columbia, Missouri |page=17 |lccn=2018021863 |oclc=1030391765 |ref={{harvid|"Gilded"|2018}}}}</ref>

Prior to 2000, Nevada County was considered an "ancestral" Democratic-voting county, with exceptions for the [[1968 United States presidential election|1968]] [[George Wallace]] campaign and the [[1972 United States presidential election|1972]] and [[1984 United States presidential election|1984]] landslides of [[Richard Nixon]] and [[Ronald Reagan]], respectively.

{{PresHead|place=Nevada County, Arkansas|source=<ref name="DL">{{cite web|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/|access-date=November 18, 2016}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2004|Republican|1,752|1,694|31|Arkansas}}
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{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|976|2,279|395|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,217|2,242|489|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,714|1,732|13|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|2,352|1,783|17|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,697|2,631|112|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|1,163|3,101|5|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,513|1,179|0|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|American Independent|840|1,308|1,773|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|1,406|2,190|29|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|937|1,605|209|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|1,039|1,871|33|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,037|1,972|5|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|202|1,140|430|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|415|1,353|3|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|224|1,399|7|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|204|1,252|5|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|197|2,358|9|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|946|1,242|4|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|386|719|186|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|1,292|1,220|39|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|657|1,376|0|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|322|607|361|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|784|890|290|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|556|585|383|Arkansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|744|732|93|Arkansas}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Democratic|469|1,669|11|Arkansas}}