sentences:  Along with its neighbor Lee County, Ogle County is one of the most consistently Republican counties in the nation when it comes to presidential elections.Except for the 1912 election when the GOP was mortally divided and Progressive Theodore Roosevelt carried the county against conservative incumbent William Howard Taft, Ogle County has voted Republican in every Presidential election since the Republican Party first participated in 1856.No Democratic candidate has ever won the county, which favored the Whig Party before the Republican Party was formed.