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Makeup of county boards of commissioners by decade

2000s
	2008	2006	2004	2002	2000
Total seats		572	570	568	566
Democrats		340	316	322	337
Republicans		229	254	245	227
Independents		1	0	1	2
New commissioners		130	119	140	142
Vacancies		2	0	0	0
Females		88	82	88	82
African-Americans		97	105	104	87
Native Americans		7
Indian		1
Hispanic		1
Democratic boards		61	56	57	62
Republican boards		39	44	43	38

1990s
	1998	1996	1994	1992	1990
Total seats	566	566	560	551	538
Democrats	342	326	343	390	367
Republicans	221	238	217	161	171
Independents	3	2	0	0	0
New commissioners	153	140	160	166	158
Vacancies	2	0	2	1	0
Females	83	75	67	74	64
African-Americans	94	93	89	88	79
Democratic boards	61	59	58	73	68
Republican boards	38	41	42	27	32

1980s
	1988	1986	1984	1982	1980
Total seats	521	501	492	494	492
Democrats	364	360	392	431	398
Republicans	157	141	100	63	94
New commissioners	130	147	125	148	101
Vacancies	2	1	2	0	0
Females	58	49	45	42	30
African-Americans	62	42	35	35	21
Democratic boards	67	69	77	89	80
Republican boards	33	31	23	11	20
Three members	8	9	10	10	11
Five members	75	80	83	81	80
Six members	1	2	2	4	4
Seven members	14	9	5	5	5
Nine members	2	0	0	0	0
Turnover of all seats	25%	29.5%	25.4%	29.9%	20.6%
Turnover of available seats	51.2%	49.5%	55.3%	51.8%	40.7%

1970s
	1978	1976	1974	1972	1970
Total seats	493	484	477
Democrats	428	437	396
Republicans	65	46	80
New commissioners	154	143	157
Vacancies	0	1	0
Females	29	27	17
African-Americans	18	14	13
Democratic boards	85	89	86
Republican boards	15	11	14
Three members	11	14	17
Five members	79	79	76
Six members	5	2	3
Seven members	5	5	4
Turnover of all seats	31.2%	29.6%	32.9%