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1876–2024
Boyle County, Kentucky
Boyle County·Kentucky

Boyle County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

A small Central Kentucky county where presidential margins have widened each cycle since 2012

18762024·38 elections
Boyle County, Kentucky · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+29
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
30,941
2024 ACS
Most similar
Scott County
KY · similarity 1.00
25 precincts · 14,373 votes cast
Trump · R+29
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−29.0%
4,9909,15914,373
2020R
−24.7%
5,2988,87214,478
2016R
−29.0%
4,2818,04012,946
2012R
−26.1%
4,4717,70312,373
2008R
−23.2%
4,7697,70112,635
2004R
−25.0%
4,6467,76412,490
2000R
−20.9%
3,9636,12610,326
1996R
−3.2%
3,8774,1578,782
1992R
−1.3%
3,8944,0199,278
1988R
−14.0%
3,5754,7468,354
1984R
−25.3%
3,3785,6759,076
1980D
+6.8%
4,4293,8488,574
1976D
+7.6%
4,0953,5117,703
1972R
−28.3%
2,3954,3176,781
1968R
−0.8%
2,6632,7156,738
1964D
+43.1%
4,9761,9726,962
1960R
−4.6%
3,3083,6246,932
1956D
+0.1%
3,4363,4276,880
1952D
+11.9%
3,7712,9696,763
1948D
+27.0%
3,3381,8975,336
1944D
+22.6%
3,4902,1955,719
1940D
+28.7%
4,0812,2576,349
1936D
+26.0%
4,1482,4316,606
1932D
+33.8%
4,4732,2086,711
1928R
−8.1%
2,9923,5176,512
1924D
+8.4%
3,1972,6736,217
1920D
+12.2%
4,0993,2057,342
1916D
+15.6%
2,0521,4943,572
1912D
+33.8%
1,7987013,247
1908D
+9.1%
1,7871,4853,327
1904D
+9.1%
1,6461,3663,072
1900R
−2.1%
1,5771,6463,275
1896R
−16.0%
1,2061,6872,999
1892D
+4.2%
1,2491,1442,493
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
African American
5.8%
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
44.1%
Other Christian
10.2%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.5%
Methodist
5.3%
Mainline Protestant
4.4%
Catholic & Orthodox
3.8%
Non-Christian
0.4%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 26.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Boyle County anchors a compact agricultural and small-college community around Danville, and its roughly 27,000 residents have shifted steadily toward lopsided Republican presidential margins over the past decade, reaching R+29 in 2024.

The Republican margin in Boyle County reached its widest at twenty-nine points in 2016. The margin in 2024 was twenty-nine points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Boyle County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $61,159, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 30,941 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Scott County and Hood County.