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| Treasurer || Velvet Ricker || Republican
| Treasurer || Velvet Ricker || Republican
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At the state level, all of Carter County is part of the 153rd District, which also includes all of Ripley County and portions of Butler and Wayne Counties. It is currently represented by Jeff Shawan (R-[[Poplar Bluff, Missouri|Poplar Bluff]]), who was elected to his first term in November 2018, defeating Democrat Matt Michel.
{| class="wikitable"
! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
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| Jeff Shawan || Republican || 9,717 || 74.471%
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| Matt Michel || Democratic || 3,331 || 25.529%
|}
Shawan slightly underperformed within Carter County, winning by a margin of 1,617 to 671.
In the Missouri State Senate, Carter County is part of the 25th District, which also includes Butler, [[Dunklin County, Missouri|Dunklin]], [[Mississippi County, Missouri|Mississippi]], [[New Madrid County, Missouri|New Madrid]], [[Pemiscot County, Missouri|Pemiscot]], Shannon, and [[Stoddard County, Missouri|Stoddard]] Counties. It is currently represented by Doug Libla (R-Poplar Bluff), who was re-elected to a second term in November 2016, defeating Democrat Bill Burlison.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
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| Doug Libla || Republican || 44,373 || 69.354%
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| Bill Burlison || Democratic || 19,607 || 30.646%
|}
Libla somewhat overperformed within Carter County, winning by a margin of 2,016 to 692.
At the federal level, Ripley County is part of Missouri's 8th Congressional District, which includes most of southeast and south-central Missouri. It is represented by Jason Smith (R-Salem), who won re-election in November 2018, defeating Democrat Kathy Ellis.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
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| Jason Smith || Republican || 194,042 || 73.39%
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| Kathy Ellis || Democratic || 66,151 || 25.019%
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| Jonathan Shell || Libertarian || 4,206 || 1.591%
|}
Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Carter County, winning 81.304% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, though it sometimes continues to vote Democratic at the local level, Carter County is solidly Republican at the state and especially the federal level. Its voting patterns mirror those in much of the South and lower Midwest, and generally reflect the political leanings of the Missouri Ozark counties overall. The last Democratic presidential candidate to win the county was [[Bill Clinton]] in 1992 (he very narrowly lost it in 1996). In the 2016 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 81.54% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref> In the past, the county did on occasion support Democrats for state office, and in fact the well-known Carnahan political family originated in the Ellsinore area; since 2000, however, these have been rare exceptions, due largely to alienation from the Democrats' increasingly [[leftist]] politics.
Like much of southern Missouri, Carter 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 Ripley County with 86.59% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county defeated the measure with 56.45% voting against. At the same time, it frequently supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class. In the November 2006 election, the county supported an increase in the state minimum wage, with 73.01% of the vote; however, a similar measure in November 2018 was defeated with 52.62% voting against. These results mark Carter County as one of the more conservative parts of Missouri.
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