The Republican Party controls politics at the local level in Christian County.

On May 20, 2015, Sheriff Joey Kyle plead guilty to embezzling county funds and participating in an illegal fraud scheme.

As a part of a plea agreement, he immediately resigned as sheriff, was sentenced to one year plus one day in federal prison, and must repay more than $50,000 in restitution to Christian County.

The only Democratic presidential candidate to win Christian County since the Civil War has been Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932.

[20] Like most areas throughout the Bible Belt in Southwest Missouri, voters in Christian County traditionally adhere to socially and culturally conservative principles which tend to strongly influence their Republican leanings.

The proposition strongly passed every single county in Missouri with 78.99 percent voting in favor as the minimum wage was increased to $6.50 an hour in the state.

Voters in Christian County from both political parties supported candidates who finished in second place in the state at large and nationally.

Former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas) received more votes, a total of 5,852, than any candidate from either party in Christian County during the 2008 Missouri Presidential Preference Primary.

The library offers residents books, A/V materials, programming, printing, and WiFi access.

[23] On Tuesday, August 8, 2017, voters in Christian County approved to instate a 20-cent property tax levy.

CCL expects eighty-five percent of the population in Christian County to be within a five-mile radius of the library after all intended branches are opened.

[27] This masked depiction is what would eventually be used in the book, The Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell Wright.

This masked depiction can also be seen on the ride Fire in the Hole located at Silver Dollar City.