sentences:  Northampton County is a member of the regional Upper Coastal Plain Council of Governments.Northampton is a traditionally Democratic county, being one of only two counties in the state won by George McGovern during his 1972 landslide loss.Apart from several contiguous counties in South Texas; Northampton County is the only county in the United States to vote Democratic in every presidential election over the past century; the last Democratic candidate to lose the county was William Jennings Bryan in 1896.