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Shannon County, Missouri (view source)
Revision as of 18:28, November 24, 2020
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===CDP===
===CDP===
* [[Montier, Missouri|Montier]]
* [[Montier, Missouri|Montier]]
==Government==
Local government in Shannon County is provided by the elected officials. At present, a slight majority of these positions are held by members of the [[Republican]] party.<ref>https://www.mocounties.com/shannon-county.php</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Countywide official !! Name !! Party
|-
| Assessor || Jimile Voyles || Democratic
|-
| Circuit Clerk || Melany Williams || Democratic
|-
| County Clerk || Shelly Bland || Republican
|-
| Collector || Susie Needels || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (presiding) || Jeff Cowen || Democratic
|-
| Commissioner (District 1) || Dale Counts || Democratic
|-
| Commissioner (District 2) || Herman Kelly || Republican
|-
| Coroner || Samuel Murphy || Independent
|-
| Prosecuting Attorney || Jodie Brumble || Democratic
|-
| Public Administrator || Teresa Acord || Republican
|-
| Recorder || Melany Williams || Democratic
|-
| Sheriff || Darrin Brawley || Republican
|-
| Surveyor || Robert Ross || Republican
|-
| Treasurer || Michelle Shedd || Republican
|}
At the state level, all of Shannon County is part of the 143rd District in the Missouri House of Representatives, which also includes all of Dent and Oregon Counties and part of Reynolds County. It is currently represented by Jeff Pogue (R-Salem), who was elected to his fourth and final term in November 2018 without opposition.
In the Missouri State Senate, Shannon County is part of the 25th District, which also includes [[Butler County, Missouri|Butler]], Carter, [[Dunklin County, Missouri|Dunklin]], [[Mississippi County, Missouri|Mississippi]], [[New Madrid County, Missouri|New Madrid]], [[Pemiscot County, Missouri|Pemiscot]], and [[Stoddard County, Missouri|Stoddard]] Counties. It is currently represented by Doug Libla (R-[[Poplar Bluff, Missouri|Poplar Bluff]]), who was re-elected in November 2016, defeating [[Democratic]] candidate Bill Burlison.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
|-
| Doug Libla || Republican || 44,373 || 69.354%
|-
| Bill Burlison || Democratic || 19,607 || 30.646%
|}
Libla roughly matched his overall total in Shannon County, winning 2,570 votes to 1,103 for Burlison.
At the federal level, Shannon 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
|-
| Jason Smith || Republican || 194,042 || 73.39%
|-
| Kathy Ellis || Democratic || 66,151 || 25.019%
|-
| Jonathan Shell || Libertarian || 4,206 || 1.591%
|}
Smith slightly overperformed his average margin in Reynolds County, winning 76.270% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, despite sometimes voting Democratic on the local level, Shannon County is at present a fairly reliably [[Republican]] county at the state and national level. This is a somewhat recent development; during the 20th century, it generally voted for the Democratic presidential candidate (though not always: [[Richard Nixon]] won it in 1960 and 1972, as did [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984). Some of this is attributable to the presence of mining operations, whose workers tend to support labor unions and the Democratic Party, as reflected in electoral trends in other mining districts. The county voted for [[George W. Bush]] in 2000, however, and has steadily trended Republican since then, as blue-collar workers became alienated by the Democratic Party’s social radicalism. In 2016, [[Donald Trump]] carried the county with 75.97% of the vote.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Shannon County can be included within the [[Bible Belt]], combining 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 Reynolds County with 85.64% support. In 2006, while the state narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 55.87% voting against. At the same time, it often supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class. In the November 2006 election, the county, like the state, supported a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 74.62% voting in favor, though in November 2018, a similar measure (which passed the state at large) was very narrowly defeated, with 50.46% voting against. These results generally align with the rest of southern Missouri.
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