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Oregon County, Missouri (view source)
Revision as of 18:16, December 23, 2020
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===CDP===
===CDP===
* [[Thomasville, Missouri|Thomasville]]
* [[Thomasville, Missouri|Thomasville]]
==Government==
Local government in Oregon County is provided by the elected officials. At present, these positions are evenly divided between members of the [[Democratic]] and [[Republican]] parties.<ref>http://www.mocounties.com/oregon-county.php</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Countywide official !! Name !! Party
|-
| Assessor || Charles Alford || Democratic
|-
| Circuit Clerk || Betty Grooms || Republican
|-
| County Clerk || Tracy Bridges || Democratic
|-
| Collector || Misty Hower || Democratic
|-
| Commissioner (presiding) || Patrick Ledgerwood || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (District 1) || Jason Kemper || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (District 2) || Jon Hollis || Republican
|-
| Coroner || Tom Clary || Democratic
|-
| Prosecuting Attorney || Justin Kelley || Democratic
|-
| Public Administrator || Mindy Lawrence || Republican
|-
| Recorder || Dawn Holman || Democratic
|-
| Sheriff || Eric King || Republican
|-
| Surveyor || Scott Simer || Democratic
|-
| Treasurer || Linda Parrott || Republican
|}
At the state level, all of Oregon County is part of the 143rd District in the Missouri House of Representatives, which also includes all of Dent and Shannon Counties and a portion of [[Reynolds County, Missouri|Reynolds County]]. Following the 2020 general election, it will be represented by Ron Copeland (R-Salem), who was elected to his first term without opposition.
In the Missouri State Senate, Ripley County is part of the 33rd District, which also includes Douglas, Howell, Ozark, Ripley, Texas, Webster, and Wright Counties. Following the 2020 general election, it will be represented by Karla Eslinger (R-Wasola), who was elected to her first term, defeating Democrat Tammy Harty.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
|-
| Karla Eslinger || Republican || 64,891 || 83.813%
|-
| Tammy Harty || Democratic || 12,533 || 16.187%
|}
Eslinger slightly underperformed her average margin in Oregon County, winning 3,670 votes to 858 for Harty.
At the federal level, Oregon 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 2020, defeating Democrat Kathy Ellis.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
|-
| Jason Smith || Republican || 253,811 || 76.86%
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| Kathy Ellis || Democratic || 70,561 || 21.367%
|-
| Tom Schmitz || Libertarian || 5,854 || 1.773%
|}
Smith somewhat overperformed his average margin in Oregon County, winning 80.472% 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, Oregon County is solidly Republican at the state and federal level. Its voting patterns mirror those in much of the South and lower Midwest, and reflect those in the other counties of the Ozarks and across southern Missouri more broadly. In the 2020 general election, the county overwhelmingly supported [[Donald Trump]], who won 81.18% of the vote.<ref>https://enr.sos.mo.gov/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Oregon 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 Oregon County with 87.09% support. In 2006, while the state overall narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county defeated the measure with 56.78% voting against. At the same time, it frequently supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class. In the November 2018 election, the county voted in favor of an increase in the state minimum wage (though with only 53.54% support, a somewhat smaller margin than elsewhere in the state). These results generally align with the rest of southern Missouri.
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