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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Kentucky: Governor; Lieutenant Governor; Secretary of State; Attorney General; State Treasurer; Auditor of Public Accounts; Agriculture Commissioner; The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of Representatives
That year Republican John McCain won Kentucky, carrying it 57 percent to 41 percent, but lost the national popular and electoral votes to Democrat Barack Obama. Further hampering Kentucky's status as a bellwether state, 116 of Kentucky's 120 counties supported Republican Mitt Romney in the 2012 election, who lost to Barack Obama nationwide. [3] [4]
A Southern state completely in the Bible Belt, Republicans have won Kentucky by double digits since 2000. The state last voted Democratic for fellow Southerner Bill Clinton in 1996. Kentucky handed Republican Donald Trump a decisive victory, doing so by a margin of 633,451 votes. This election marks the fourth consecutive cycle in which a ...
The Democrats’ only hope seems to be Kentucky incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear fighting off the challenge of the state’s uber-conservative Republican attorney general, Daniel Cameron.
Daniel Cameron won the Republican primary for Kentucky governor on Tuesday, becoming the first major-party Black nominee for governor in the state’s history and setting up a November showdown ...
Republicans now outnumber Democrats 1,612,060 to 1,609,569. When Mitch McConnell was first elected in 1984, Democrats had a 1.3 million to 525,000 voter registration advantage.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 7, 2023. [1]Notably, few Democratic candidates ran for statewide offices. The Lexington Herald-Leader attributed this to Kentucky's strong Republican lean and the fact that Republicans gained seats in the Kentucky General Assembly in 2022.
The 2022 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent Kentucky.Incumbent Republican Rand Paul won re-election to a third term, defeating Democratic nominee Charles Booker with 61.8% of the vote.