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Howell County, Missouri (view source)
Revision as of 23:20, February 21, 2021
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==Government==
Local government in Howell County is provided by the elected officials. At present, all of these positions are held by members of the [[Republican]] party.<ref>https://howellcounty.net/county-offices/</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
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! Countywide official !! Name !! Party
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| Assessor || Daniel Franks || Republican
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| Circuit Clerk || Suzanne Adams || Democratic
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| County Clerk || Kelly Waggoner || Democratic
|-
| Collector || Dennis K. Von Allmen || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (presiding) || Mark B. Collins || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (District 1) || Calvin Wood || Republican
|-
| Commissioner (District 2) || Billy Sexton || Republican
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| Coroner || James T. Cherry || Republican
|-
| Prosecuting Attorney || Michael P. Hutchings || Republican
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| Public Administrator || John Pruett || Republican
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| Recorder || Jeff Brasier || Republican
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| Sheriff || Brent Campbell || Republican
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| Surveyor || Ralph L. Riggs || Republican
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| Treasurer || Nancy Franz || Republican
|}
At the state level, Howell County makes up parts of two districts in the Missouri House of Representatives. The northeastern corner, including the city of Mountain View, is part of the 142nd District, which also includes all of Texas County and portions of Phelps and Pulaski Counties. It is currently represented by Bennie Cook (R-Houston), who was elected to his first term in November 2020 without opposition.
The rest of the county, including the cities of Brandsville, West Plains, and Willow Springs, comprises the 154th District. It is currently represented by David Evans (R-West Plains), who was re-elected to his second term in November 2020 without opposition.
In the Missouri State Senate, Howell County is part of the 33rd District, which also includes Douglas, Oregon, Ozark, [[Ripley County, Missouri|Ripley]], Texas, Webster, and Wright Counties. It is currently represented by Karla Eslinger (R-Wasola), who was elected to her first term in November 2020, defeating [[Democratic]] candidate Tammy Harty.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
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| Karla Eslinger || Republican || 64,891 || 83.813%
|-
| Tammy Harty || Democratic || 12,533 || 16.187%
|}
Eslinger roughly matched her overall total in Howell County, winning 15,213 votes to 2,935 for Harty.
At the federal level, Howell 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, Missouri|Salem]]), who won re-election in November 2020, defeating Democrat Kathy Ellis.
{| class="wikitable"
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! Candidate !! Party !! Votes !! Vote Percentage
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| Jason Smith || Republican || 253,811 || 76.86%
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| Kathy Ellis || Democratic || 70,561 || 21.367%
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| Tom Schmitz || Libertarian || 5,854 || 1.773%
|}
Smith moderately overperformed his average margin in Howell County, winning 81.694% of the vote.<ref>https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/s_default</ref>
'''Political Culture'''
As the above numbers indicate, Howell County is among the most solidly [[Republican]] counties in the state of Missouri. It only supported the Democratic candidate in presidential elections five times in the 20th century, the last time being in 1992 when it was only narrowly carried by [[Bill Clinton]]. Since then, it has consistently voted for the GOP candidate. In 2016, [[Donald Trump]] won the county overwhelmingly with 79.59% of the vote, increasing his total to 81.29% in the 2020 election.<ref>https://enrarchives.sos.mo.gov/enrnet/CountyResults.aspx</ref>
Like much of southern Missouri, Howell 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 Howell County with 83.36% support. In 2006, while the state narrowly passed an amendment to fund embryonic stem-cell research, the county decisively defeated the measure with 57.97% voting against. At the same time, it often supports economic measures that appear to favor the working and middle class, though less strongly than some other areas. In the November 2006 election, the county, like the state, supported a proposed increase in the state minimum wage, with 67.79% voting in favor, but in November 2018, a similar measure (which passed the state at large) was narrowly defeated, with 52.70% voting against. These results generally align with the rest of southern Missouri.<ref>https://howellcounty.net/category/election-results/</ref>
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