Editing Wyandotte County, Kansas (section)

==Government==
===Law===
The Wyandotte County Sheriff's Office oversees the Wyandotte County Jail. The Bonner Springs Police Department, Edwardsville Police Department, and the Kansas City Kansas Police Department serve those respective cities in Wyandotte County.

Wyandotte County was a prohibition, or [[dry county|"dry"]], county until the [[Kansas Constitution]] was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of liquor by the individual drink with a 30% food sales requirement. Voters removed the food sales requirement in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 2006 |title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties |url=http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008013617/http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm |archive-date=October 8, 2007 |access-date=December 28, 2007 |publisher=Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue}}</ref>

The county voted against the [[2022 Kansas abortion referendum]], an anti-abortion ballot measure, by 74% to 26%, outpacing its support of [[Joe Biden]] during the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Panetta |first=Grace |date=August 3, 2022 |title=14 of the 19 Kansas counties that rejected an anti-abortion amendment voted for Trump in 2020 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/14-out-19-counties-that-rejected-kansas-anti-abortion-measure-backed-trump-2022-8 |access-date=August 3, 2022 |publisher=Business Insider}}</ref>

===Local government===
In 1997, residents voted to consolidate the municipal government of Kansas City, Kansas and county government of Wyandotte into a single unified government, combining many duplicative public departments.  Voters at the time largely decided the municipal government harbored widespread corruption and patronage, and that consolidation with the better run county offered a path toward better public services and increased government transparency.<ref>{{Cite news |date=March 6, 2015 |title=How KCK And Wyandotte County Unified During Troubled Times |url=https://www.kcur.org/community/2015-03-06/how-kck-and-wyandotte-county-unified-during-troubled-times |access-date=June 16, 2024 | publisher=[[KCUR]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Presidential elections===
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{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|18,934|36,788|1,349|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|15,806|30,146|3,291|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|15,496|34,302|1,095|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|16,506|39,865|1,038|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Democratic|17,919|34,923|559|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Democratic|14,024|32,411|1,837|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|14,011|31,252|4,391|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|12,872|34,397|13,855|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|19,097|38,678|624|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Democratic|27,459|36,042|635|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|23,012|32,763|4,448|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|23,141|37,478|1,936|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|34,157|28,206|2,453|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|23,091|34,189|11,891|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|20,553|43,442|1,356|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|34,764|41,433|604|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|34,604|37,842|186|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|34,648|38,751|258|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|24,398|41,366|1,024|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|26,817|32,914|214|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|28,152|38,239|252|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|26,239|38,101|256|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|25,471|32,629|721|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|32,829|16,884|265|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|23,881|8,913|7,354|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|19,294|13,737|671|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|13,863|17,850|1,408|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|2,107|7,370|9,371|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|8,684|8,923|652|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|9,147|3,815|1,290|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|8,133|7,304|280|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|6,852|6,882|126|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1892|Republican|5,889|0|5,635|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|5,431|4,155|215|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|3,232|2,301|205|Kansas}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|2,410|1,729|236|Kansas}}
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Unlike almost every other county in Kansas, Wyandotte County has been solidly Democratic ever since the [[New Deal]]. This is largely due to its highly urbanized nature and significant minority population. The only Democrat to lose Wyandotte County since 1932 has been [[George McGovern]] in [[Richard Nixon]]'s 49-state landslide of 1972, when Nixon swept all 275 counties [[list of counties in Oklahoma|in Oklahoma]], Kansas, and [[list of counties in Nebraska|Nebraska]]. Wyandotte was the only county in Kansas to vote for [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in 1944, [[Adlai Stevenson II]] in both 1952 and 1956, [[Hubert Humphrey]] in 1968, [[Jimmy Carter]] in 1980, and [[Walter Mondale]] in 1984. No Republican presidential nominee has received even 40% of the vote since [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984. Democratic strength is primarily concentrated east of [[Interstate 435]], while areas west of the highway, especially the neighborhoods of [[Piper, Kansas|Piper]] and [[Wolcott, Kansas|Wolcott]], lean [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/upshot/2020-election-map.html | title=An Extremely Detailed Map of the 2020 Election | work=The New York Times | date=February 2, 2021 | last1=Park | first1=Alice | last2=Smart | first2=Charlie | last3=Taylor | first3=Rumsey | last4=Watkins | first4=Miles}}</ref>