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Kentucky has eight electoral votes in the Electoral College. [3] Trump won Kentucky by a 25.9% margin in this election, down from his 29.8% margin in 2016. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Trump would win, or a safe red state.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kentucky on November 3, 2020. [ 1 ] To vote by mail , registered Kentucky voters must request a paper ballot by October 27, 2020. [ 2 ]
The 2020 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 3, 2020, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky, concurrently with the 2020 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The GOP dominated the statewide races, but Beshear kept the top spot. Here are takeaways from the election results.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Kentucky, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1792, Kentucky has participated in every U.S. presidential election. Prior to the election of 1792, Kentucky was part of Virginia, and residents of the area voted as part of that state. Winners of the state are in bold.
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 ] In a 2020 study, Kentucky was ranked as the 8th hardest state for citizens to vote in. [ 5 ]
Kentucky law requires election results in at least a dozen counties be audited following the passage of Senate Bill 216 earlier this year. Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced the counties on ...
McGarvey, who spent 10 years in the Kentucky Senate before winning his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2022 election, ran this year against Republican challenger Mike Craven ...