| % of | Other | Other | |||||||||||
| GRANT | Potential | Potential | Total | Democrat | Republican | Other | Other Minor | Party | Minor | ||||
| Vote | Voting | Votes | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Prty | ||
| 1824 | 332 | 63.3% | 210 | 59 | 28.1% | 151 | 0.0% | National Republican | |||||
| 1828 | 353 | 105.4% | 372 | 186 | 50.0% | 186 | 0.0% | National Republican | |||||
| 1832 | 587 | 68.3% | 401 | 172 | 42.9% | 229 | 0.0% | National Republican | |||||
| 1836 | 716 | 65.9% | 472 | 225 | 47.7% | 247 | 0.0% | Whig | |||||
| 1840 | 845 | 79.8% | 674 | 320 | 47.5% | 354 | 0.0% | Whig | |||||
| 1844 | 1,055 | 84.3% | 889 | 493 | 55.5% | 396 | 0.0% | Whig | |||||
| 1848 | 1,266 | 80.1% | 1,014 | 529 | 52.2% | 485 | 0.0% | Whig | |||||
| 1852 | 1,445 | 69.8% | 1,009 | 572 | 56.7% | 437 | 0.0% | Whig | Free Dem | ||||
| 1856 | 1,594 | 82.5% | 1,315 | 676 | 51.4% | 639 | 0.0% | American | |||||
| 1860 | 1,742 | 86.0% | 1,498 | 709 | 47.3% | 0.0% | 677 | 0.0% | 112 | 7.5% | Union | Ind. Dem. | |
| 1864 | 2,022 | 29.3% | 593 | 373 | 62.9% | 220 | 0.0% | Union | |||||
| 1868 | 2,302 | 65.4% | 1,506 | 933 | 62.0% | 573 | 38.0% | ||||||
| 1872 | 2,340 | 60.0% | 1,403 | 752 | 53.6% | 641 | 45.7% | - | 10 | 0.7% | Ind. Dem | ||
| 1876 | 2,768 | 73.3% | 2,028 | 1,297 | 64.0% | 719 | 35.5% | 12 | Misc | ||||
| 1880 | 3,192 | 69.3% | 2,212 | 1,333 | 60.3% | 869 | 39.3% | 10 | 0.5% | ||||
| 1884 | 3,224 | 68.2% | 2,199 | 1,345 | 61.2% | 805 | 36.6% | 49 | 2.2% | ||||
| 1888 | 3,256 | 85.7% | 2,792 | 1,604 | 57.4% | 1,126 | 40.3% | 62 | 2.2% | ||||
| 1892 | 3,343 | 82.8% | 2,767 | 1,591 | 57.5% | 1,034 | 37.4% | 142 | 5.1% | ||||
| 1896 | 3,495 | 95.6% | 3,341 | 1,852 | 55.4% | 1,417 | 42.4% | 72 | 2.2% | ||||
| 1900 | 3,647 | 96.7% | 3,528 | 2,039 | 57.8% | 1,465 | 41.5% | 24 | 0.7% | ||||
| 1904 | 3,879 | 73.0% | 2,831 | 1,651 | 58.3% | 1,148 | 40.6% | 32 | 1.1% | ||||
| 1908 | 4,111 | 67.9% | 2,790 | 1,654 | 59.3% | 1,099 | 39.4% | 37 | 1.3% | ||||
| 1912 | 3,075 | 84.8% | 2,609 | 1,562 | 59.9% | 837 | 32.1% | 171 | 6.6% | 39 | 1.5% | Progressive | |
| 1916 | 3,091 | 95.7% | 2,959 | 1,841 | 62.2% | 1,078 | 36.4% | 40 | 1.4% | ||||
| 1920 | 6,020 | 72.0% | 4,337 | 2,686 | 61.9% | 1,613 | 37.2% | 38 | 0.9% | Women Allowed to Vote | |||
| 1924 | 5,975 | 59.9% | 3,579 | 1,923 | 53.7% | 1,424 | 39.8% | 208 | 5.8% | 24 | 0.7% | Progressive | |
| 1928 | 5,930 | 69.4% | 4,116 | 1,662 | 40.4% | 2,448 | 59.5% | 6 | 0.1% | ||||
| 1932 | 5,959 | 77.1% | 4,592 | 3,148 | 68.6% | 1,407 | 30.6% | 37 | 0.8% | ||||
| 1936 | 6,060 | 65.0% | 3,939 | 2,560 | 65.0% | 1,353 | 34.3% | 26 | 0.7% | ||||
| 1940 | 6,161 | 69.3% | 4,269 | 2,729 | 63.9% | 1,535 | 36.0% | 5 | 0.1% | ||||
| 1944 | 6,161 | 65.7% | 4,047 | 2,413 | 59.6% | 1,621 | 40.1% | 13 | 0.3% | ||||
| 1948 | 6,161 | 61.7% | 3,803 | 2,633 | 69.2% | 1,154 | 30.3% | 7 | 0.2% | 9 | 0.2% | States Rights | |
| 1952 | 4,161 | 2,545 | 61.2% | 1,609 | 38.7% | 0.0% | 7 | 0.2% | |||||
| 1956 | 3,996 | 2,300 | 57.6% | 1,680 | 42.0% | 0.0% | 16 | 0.4% | |||||
| 1960 | 4,062 | 1,899 | 46.8% | 2,163 | 53.2% | 0.0% | - | 0.0% | |||||
| 1964 | 3,545 | 2,461 | 69.4% | 1,068 | 30.1% | 0.0% | 16 | 0.5% | |||||
| 1968 | 3,522 | 1,169 | 33.2% | 1,386 | 39.4% | 941 | 26.7% | 26 | 0.7% | ||||
| 1972 | 3,258 | 1,054 | 32.4% | 2,086 | 64.0% | - | 0.0% | 118 | 3.6% | ||||
| 1976 | 3,634 | 2,336 | 64.3% | 1,212 | 33.4% | - | 0.0% | 86 | 2.4% | ||||
| 1980 | 4,183 | 2,272 | 54.3% | 1,779 | 42.5% | 76 | 1.8% | 56 | 1.3% | ||||
| 1984 | 6,783 | 67.9% | 4,603 | 1,685 | 36.6% | 2,840 | 61.7% | 78 | 1.7% | ||||
| 1988 | 7,353 | 65.3% | 4,801 | 1,896 | 39.5% | 2,835 | 59.1% | 70 | 1.5% | ||||
| 1992 | 7,377 | 73.1% | 5,395 | 2,097 | 38.9% | 2,128 | 39.4% | 1,149 | 21.3% | 21 | 0.4% | Independent | Various |
| 1996 | 9,167 | 64.8% | 5,937 | 2,541 | 42.8% | 2,697 | 45.4% | 661 | 11.1% | 38 | 0.6% | Reform | Various |
| 2000 | 12,870 | 55.2% | 7,103 | 2,568 | 36.2% | 4,405 | 62.0% | 90 | 1.3% | 40 | 0.6% | Green | Various |
| 2004 | 14,606 | 59.7% | 8,724 | 2,818 | 32.3% | 5,851 | 67.1% | 55 | 0.6% | - | 0.0% | ||
| 2008 | 15,829 | 55.3% | 8,754 | 3,112 | 35.5% | 5,510 | 62.9% | 79 | 0.9% | 53 | 0.6% | ||
| A note on sources | |||||||||||||
| You'll note there are no election results prior to 1824. That's because Kentucky was virtually all Democratic in that period, and besides, I found no actual results. | |||||||||||||
| The bulk of this material is from a classic on the subject, Jasper B. Shannon and Ruth McQuown's Presidential Politics in Kentucky, 1824 - 1948. It's a wonderful | |||||||||||||
| source, but it stops in 1948 (it was published in 1950). Results from 1976 forward can be found on the web site: http://www.elect.ky.gov/results/, which | |||||||||||||
| is the Kentucky Secretary of State's web site. | |||||||||||||