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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
Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
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]
See live updates of Kentucky election results from the 2024 election, including Senate and House races, state elections and ballot initiatives.
Another metric measuring party preference is the Cook Partisan Voting Index (PVI). Cook PVIs are calculated by comparing a state's average Democratic Party or Republican Party share of the two-party presidential vote in the past two presidential elections to the nation's average share of the same.
Kentucky House and U.S. Congressional District maps will remain in place after the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled against a Democrat-led gerrymandering challenge to both maps drawn by Republicans ...
Republicans rule Kentucky politically, yet its liberal-leaning governor remains a popular figure, even as Democrats take a nosedive in the state. Will Kentucky's governor race map out a blueprint ...
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 ...