for Kama la Harris, Trump’s popularity in Lincoln County has grown every time he’s been on the ballot. After receiving 72.3 percent of the vote in 2016 when running against Hillary Clinton, Trump received 75,1 percent in 2020. By comparison, Mitt Romney received 62,9 percent of the vote in 2012, the last time a Democrat received more than 30 percent, with Barack Obama finishing with 34 percent. Trump was hardly the exception though when it came to Republicans winning in Lincoln County, although he did receive the highest percentage in any contested race. All Republicans in contested received at least 70 percent of the vote, including Josh

Hawley at 72 percent in his re-election bid for U.S. Senate, Mike Kehoe (governor, 76 percent), Dave Wasinger (lieutenant governor, 75 percent), Denny Hoskins (secretary of state, 75 percent), VivekMalek (treasurer, 74 percent), Andrew Bailey (attorney general. 76,6 percent) and Sam Graves (U.S, House of Representatives, 76 percent). While more lopsided locally, the same Republican candidates would also each win at the state and national level. In more local races, Doyle Justus was re-elected to a second term to the Missouri House with 76,9 percent of vote compared to 20,5 percent for his Democratic challenger,

Hans Stock. Chad Perkins was also re-elected to

Doyle Justus Matt Bass

Associate County Commissioner in District 2, defeating Michael Howard 75-25 percent. Several other county offices w ere filled in uncontested races, including circuit judge (Jim Beck), district one commissioner (Michael Mueller), sheriff (Rick Harrell), assessor (Kevin Bishop), treasurer (Brenda O’Brien), coroner (Dan Heavin), public administrator (Donna Mitchell) and surveyor (Dennis Kalla sh). Wlnle Lincoln County results may have mirrored the state in terms of state and national candidates, the same can’t be said of the many amendments and propositions on the ballot . Local voters rejected both Amendments 2 and 3, with 51.6 and 62.1 percent, respectively, voting no. Amendment 2 narrowly passed statewide by less than 8,000

votes, allowing for sports gambling, while Amendment 3 passed w ith 53 percent of the vote, reversing state law restricting abortions. As for the other two amendments, one of which w ould have allow ed for an additional casino in the lake of the Ozarks and another that would have allocated court fees into a retirement fund for sheriffs and prosecutors w ere defeated both locally and statewide. Local voters also defeated Proposition A 51-49 percent. However, the measure which raises the minimum w age to $15 an hour by Jan. 1, 2026 easily passed 58-42 percent statew ide. Voters approved a minimum-wage hike in 2006. with 75% of the vote, and again in 2018, with 62% of the vote.