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Smith roughly matched his average margin in Madison County, winning 72.906% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
Smith roughly matched his average margin in Madison County, winning 72.906% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, Madison County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level, though slightly less so than other counties in southern Missouri. This can be attributed to the importance of mining in the local economy, which as in the rest of the Lead Belt encouraged the growth of [[labor unions]] whose members tend to vote [[Democratic]]. It was a swing county in presidential elections through much of the 20th century, though since 2000 it has steadily trended Republican, with its mostly rural, middle- and working-class population being alienated by the Democratic Party's social radicalism. In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 77.09% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Madison County can be included within the [[Bible Belt]], and tends to combine social [[conservatism]] with economic [[populism]]. In 2004, it voted overwhelmingly in favor of Constitutional Amendment 2, which recognized marriage as between a man and a woman only—the measure passed in Madison County with 84.78% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 57.60% voting against. At the same time, it often supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class--somewhat more so than elsewhere in Southeast Missouri, given its economic background. In the November 2018 election, the county narrowly approved a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 51.31% voting against (it passed the state at large). These results are generally in line with the rest of southern Missouri.
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