Editing Norton County, Kansas (section)

==Government==

===County===
Noah H. Billings was an early county settler, county superintendent of schools, county attorney, and state representative. [[Keith Sebelius]] served as a U.S. congressman from 1969 to 1981.<ref name=Pedia>[http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/norton-county-kansas/15324 Norton County, Kansas], ''Kansas Historical Society''</ref>

===Presidential elections===
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|1,882|346|47|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,007|364|44|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|1,840|281|113|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,878|398|49|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|1,878|497|40|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,092|473|34|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,744|598|109|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,814|640|277|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|1,469|779|820|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,923|855|69|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|2,515|611|50|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|2,625|666|186|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|2,201|1,337|97|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|2,688|776|82|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|2,543|841|202|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|2,245|1,449|42|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|2,781|1,300|8|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|3,052|1,194|18|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|3,530|1,047|54|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|2,461|1,414|161|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|2,890|1,159|29|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|3,415|1,378|66|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|2,829|2,307|24|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|2,272|2,705|168|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|3,365|1,087|96|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|2,778|1,261|643|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|2,288|1,082|137|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|1,616|2,876|222|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|598|1,081|815|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|1,448|1,337|125|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|1,570|417|350|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|1,329|1,212|31|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|941|1,260|36|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|1,054|0|1,130|Kansas}}
{{PresFoot|1888|Republican|1,471|631|497|Kansas}}
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Like all the High Plains, Norton County is overwhelmingly Republican. In 1964, the last time the Republicans did ''not'' carry Kansas’ electoral votes, Norton County was [[Barry Goldwater]]’s second-best county in the state behind [[Clay County, Kansas|Clay County]]. The last Democrat to reach forty percent of the county’s vote was [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1936, ironically against [[list of Governors of Kansas|Kansas Governor]] [[Alf Landon]]. Roosevelt in 1932 was the last Democrat to carry Norton County, and the only others are Woodrow Wilson (twice) and [[William Jennings Bryan]] in his first 1896 campaign.

===Laws===
Following amendment to the [[Kansas Constitution]] in 1986, the county remained a prohibition, or [[dry county|"dry"]], county until 1992, when voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 percent food sales requirement.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm| title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties| publisher=Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue| date=November 2006| access-date=December 26, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008013617/http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm| archive-date=October 8, 2007}}</ref>