sentences:  The trustees and board members are elected to four-year terms.Parke County is part of Indiana's 8th congressional district; Indiana Senate district 38; and Indiana House of Representatives districts 41, 42 and 44.Parke County is a consistently Republican county in presidential elections, having voted for Democratic Party candidates only five times since 1888, and not at all since Lyndon B. Johnson's national landslide in 1964.