| % of | Other | Other | |||||||||||
| Kenton | Potential | Potential | Total | Democrat | Republican | Other | Other Minor | Party | Minor | ||||
| Vote | Voting | Votes | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Vote | Percent | Prty | ||
| 1824 | |||||||||||||
| 1828 | |||||||||||||
| 1832 | Kenton County came into existence in 1840 | ||||||||||||
| 1836 | |||||||||||||
| 1840 | 1,710 | 66.4% | 1,136 | 618 | 54.4% | - | 518 | 0.0% | Whig | ||||
| 1844 | 2,688 | 59.8% | 1,607 | 920 | 57.2% | - | 687 | 0.0% | Whig | ||||
| 1848 | 3,666 | 60.4% | 2,213 | 1,228 | 55.5% | - | 985 | 0.0% | Whig | ||||
| 1852 | 4,559 | 51.8% | 2,360 | 1,384 | 58.6% | - | 975 | 0.0% | 1 | Whig | Free Dem | ||
| 1856 | 5,364 | 53.9% | 2,889 | 1,643 | 56.9% | - | 1,246 | 0.0% | American | ||||
| 1860 | 6,170 | 57.6% | 3,556 | 650 | 18.3% | 267 | 7.5% | 1,327 | 0.0% | 1,312 | 36.9% | Union | Ind. Dem. |
| 1864 | 6,990 | 44.2% | 3,091 | 1,375 | 44.5% | - | 0 | 1,716 | 0.0% | - | 0.0% | Union | |
| 1868 | 7,810 | 56.2% | 4,390 | 2,732 | 62.2% | 1,658 | 37.8% | ||||||
| 1872 | 8,787 | 55.4% | 4,866 | 2,969 | 61.0% | 1,886 | 38.8% | - | 11 | 0.2% | Ind. Dem | ||
| 1876 | 9,731 | 68.4% | 6,658 | 4,185 | 62.9% | 2,440 | 36.6% | 33 | Misc | ||||
| 1880 | 10,679 | 69.0% | 7,370 | 4,370 | 59.3% | 2,980 | 40.4% | 20 | 0.3% | ||||
| 1884 | 12,055 | 66.9% | 8,059 | 4,489 | 55.7% | 3,459 | 42.9% | 111 | 1.4% | ||||
| 1888 | 13,431 | 74.4% | 9,991 | 5,879 | 58.8% | 3,994 | 40.0% | 118 | 1.2% | ||||
| 1892 | 14,724 | 64.8% | 9,545 | 5,686 | 59.6% | 3,494 | 36.6% | 365 | 3.8% | ||||
| 1896 | 16,028 | 83.1% | 13,322 | 7,008 | 52.6% | 6,165 | 46.3% | 149 | 1.1% | ||||
| 1900 | 17,329 | 76.6% | 13,267 | 7,263 | 54.7% | 5,650 | 42.6% | 354 | 2.7% | ||||
| 1904 | 18,621 | 70.3% | 13,098 | 5,760 | 44.0% | 6,306 | 48.1% | 1,032 | 7.9% | ||||
| 1908 | 19,913 | 79.2% | 15,777 | 8,683 | 55.0% | 6,431 | 40.8% | 663 | 4.2% | ||||
| 1912 | 20,936 | 66.7% | 13,954 | 7,761 | 55.6% | 2,512 | 18.0% | 2,272 | 16.3% | 1,409 | 10.1% | Progressive | |
| 1916 | 21,692 | 74.8% | 16,217 | 10,402 | 64.1% | 5,267 | 32.5% | 548 | 3.4% | ||||
| 1920 | 46,830 | 61.3% | 28,730 | 16,300 | 56.7% | 11,411 | 39.7% | 1,019 | 3.5% | Women Allowed to Vote | |||
| 1924 | 51,933 | 58.6% | 30,446 | 7,948 | 26.1% | 13,444 | 44.2% | 8,897 | 29.2% | 157 | 0.5% | Progressive | |
| 1928 | 57,036 | 68.9% | 39,285 | 18,165 | 46.2% | 21,043 | 53.6% | 77 | 0.2% | ||||
| 1932 | 60,147 | 57.0% | 34,263 | 22,311 | 65.1% | 11,202 | 32.7% | 750 | 2.2% | ||||
| 1936 | 61,266 | 56.6% | 34,666 | 21,879 | 63.1% | 8,885 | 25.6% | 3,902 | 11.3% | ||||
| 1940 | 62,385 | 52.1% | 32,482 | 19,261 | 59.3% | 13,147 | 40.5% | 74 | 0.2% | ||||
| 1944 | 62,385 | 48.5% | 30,236 | 17,524 | 58.0% | 12,654 | 41.9% | 58 | 0.2% | ||||
| 1948 | 62,385 | 48.4% | 30,200 | 18,918 | 62.6% | 10,771 | 35.7% | 359 | 1.2% | 152 | 0.5% | States Rights | |
| 1952 | 38,709 | 19,457 | 50.3% | 19,200 | 49.6% | 0.0% | 52 | 0.1% | |||||
| 1956 | 36,070 | 14,923 | 41.4% | 20,895 | 57.9% | 0.0% | 252 | 0.7% | |||||
| 1960 | 41,323 | 19,466 | 47.1% | 21,857 | 52.9% | 0.0% | - | 0.0% | |||||
| 1964 | 38,795 | 23,103 | 59.6% | 15,630 | 40.3% | 0.0% | 62 | 0.2% | |||||
| 1968 | 39,557 | 14,656 | 37.1% | 17,263 | 43.6% | 7,612 | 19.2% | 26 | 0.1% | ||||
| 1972 | 42,121 | 12,872 | 30.6% | 28,076 | 66.7% | - | 0.0% | 1,173 | 2.8% | ||||
| 1976 | 41,680 | 18,833 | 45.2% | 22,087 | 53.0% | 0.0% | 760 | 1.8% | |||||
| 1980 | 46,232 | 17,907 | 38.7% | 25,965 | 56.2% | 1,583 | 3.4% | 777 | 1.7% | ||||
| 1984 | 65,434 | 75.3% | 49,245 | 14,642 | 29.7% | 34,304 | 69.7% | 299 | 0.6% | ||||
| 1988 | 66,173 | 69.2% | 45,793 | 14,838 | 32.4% | 30,738 | 67.1% | 217 | 0.5% | ||||
| 1992 | 68,007 | 78.1% | 53,135 | 16,344 | 30.8% | 27,261 | 51.3% | 9,336 | 17.6% | 194 | 0.4% | Independent | Various |
| 1996 | 80,882 | 64.5% | 52,180 | 19,407 | 37.2% | 28,579 | 54.8% | 3,680 | 7.1% | 514 | 1.0% | Reform | Various |
| 2000 | 91,089 | 61.8% | 56,249 | 19,100 | 34.0% | 35,363 | 62.9% | 1,293 | 2.3% | 493 | 0.9% | ||
| 2004 | 100,850 | 66.6% | 67,123 | 22,834 | 34.0% | 43,664 | 65.1% | 391 | 0.6% | 234 | 0.3% | ||
| 2008 | 108,068 | 63.1% | 68,213 | 26,480 | 38.8% | 40,714 | 59.7% | 513 | 0.8% | 506 | 0.7% | ||
| 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. | |||||||||||||