Editing Kane County, Utah (section)

==Politics and government==
Kane is one of the most reliably Republican counties in the nation. Of "straight-ticket" voters in the 2008 election, there were 992 Republicans and 326 Democrats. In the [[Utah gubernatorial election, 2004]] nearly 70% of the county's vote went for [[Jon Huntsman, Jr.]] and in the [[2008 Utah gubernatorial election|2008 election]] he received around 75% of the vote. Kane County is part of [[Utah's 2nd congressional district]] and thus was represented by moderate Democrat [[Jim Matheson]] for several years until 2013. The [[Utah's 2nd congressional district|second district]] is now represented by Republican [[Celeste Maloy]].

In Presidential elections, Kane County has only been won once by a Democratic candidate when [[Woodrow Wilson]] carried the county in 1916. It was the only county in Utah carried by [[Alf Landon]], the Republican opponent who lost to [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] in the 1936 Presidential election in the most lopsided Presidential election in over a century. It has solidly favored the Republican candidate since at least 1956, when [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] received approximately 90% of the vote. In 1964, by over thirty-nine percent, the county went for [[Barry Goldwater]], who lost the overall in the state by over nine percent. Since 1920, only in the Democratic landslides of 1936, 1940, and 1964 did the Democratic candidate for president receive even 30% of the county's vote.<ref name=DL/>

{| class="wikitable"
|+State elected offices
! colspan="2" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:bottom;" |Position
!District
! style="text-align:center;" |Name
! valign="bottom" |Affiliation
! style="vertical-align:bottom; text-align:center;" |First elected
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |&nbsp;
|[[Utah Senate|Senate]]
|24
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Derrin Owens]]
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" |2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Senator Owens Utah Senate|url=https://senate.utah.gov/sen/OWENSD/|access-date=November 16, 2021|website=senate.utah.gov}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color:{{party color|Republican Party (United States)}}" |&nbsp;
|[[Utah House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]
|73
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Phil Lyman]]
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| style="text-align:center;" |2018<ref>{{Cite web|title=Rep. Lyman, Phil|url=https://house.utah.gov/rep/LYMANP/|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=Utah House of Representatives|language=en-US|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115182904/https://house.utah.gov/rep/LYMANP/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| style="background-color:lightgrey" |&nbsp;
|Board of Education
|14
| style="text-align:center;" |Mark Huntsman
| style="text-align:center;" |Nonpartisan
| style="text-align:center;" |2014<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mark Huntsman|url=https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/markhuntsman|access-date=November 15, 2021|website=www.schools.utah.gov|archive-date=November 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115183003/https://www.schools.utah.gov/board/members/utah/markhuntsman|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
|}

{{PresHead|place=Kane County, Utah|source=<ref name=DL>{{cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Atlas of US Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=March 31, 2018}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,277|1,137|102|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,998|1,083|124|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|2,265|741|532|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|2,522|744|105|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|2,212|856|108|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,414|576|61|Utah}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|2,254|387|161|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|1,682|304|330|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|1,241|295|636|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|1,788|398|69|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,710|294|5|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|1,492|256|86|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|1,094|330|85|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|1,146|218|90|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|814|147|174|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|784|340|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|876|213|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|939|102|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|943|164|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|769|220|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|662|244|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|675|339|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|519|395|4|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|618|229|13|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|566|141|1|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|515|117|10|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|501|186|3|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|304|329|14|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1912|Republican|426|115|25|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|415|102|3|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|399|102|0|Utah}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|392|161|0|Utah}}
{{PresFoot|1896|Republican|288|230|0|Utah}}