sentences:  In earlier years Stokes swung from Democratic-leaning during the Third Party System to Republican enough to be alongside Yadkin and Surry as the only North Carolina counties to stick with William Howard Taft during his disastrous 1912 campaign, back to Democratic enough to support Adlai Stevenson II in 1952.Stokes County is a member of the regional Northwest Piedmont Council of Governments.Stokes County government is made up of five elected County Commissioners with an appointed County Manager plus an appointed Tax Administrator.