 Hillary Clinton fared even worse in 2016 with only 13.1 percent of the county's ballots.In other positions the county has been not been consistently Republican for as long, but nevertheless has been so for many years.The last Democratic Senatorial candidate it backed was Alan J. Dixon in 1986 and the last Democratic gubernatorial candidate it supported was Glenn Poshard, who carried all of Southern Illinois in his failed 1998 bid.