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1876–2024
Ohio County, Kentucky
Ohio County·Kentucky

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

Deep-red coal country anchoring western Kentucky's pennyroyal plateau

18762024·38 elections
Ohio County, Kentucky · Bedford at en.wikipedia · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+60
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
23,735
2024 ACS
Most similar
Jasper County
IL · similarity 1.00
19 precincts · 10,937 votes cast
Trump · R+60
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−60.2%
2,0948,67910,937
2020R
−55.5%
2,4048,58211,129
2016R
−56.4%
2,0807,94210,398
2012R
−36.1%
2,9876,4709,646
2008R
−16.4%
4,0595,6879,938
2004R
−26.8%
3,6276,31110,028
2000R
−23.8%
3,3035,4138,882
1996D
+0.1%
3,4873,4758,072
1992D
+7.2%
4,0223,3858,865
1988R
−15.2%
3,6124,9108,545
1984R
−22.2%
3,2535,1198,417
1980R
−20.0%
3,4865,2728,921
1976R
−3.5%
3,5083,7647,337
1972R
−44.6%
9062,3923,334
1968R
−28.0%
1,6953,5046,470
1964D
+5.2%
3,3032,9796,287
1960R
−36.7%
2,4205,2307,650
1956R
−28.4%
2,7264,9017,649
1952R
−24.2%
2,7004,4287,142
1948R
−9.5%
2,7213,3006,106
1944R
−17.8%
3,1314,4947,657
1940R
−8.8%
3,7294,4518,204
1936R
−5.8%
4,0304,5328,589
1932R
−0.1%
4,8704,8809,934
1928R
−34.1%
2,7845,6908,514
1924R
−5.3%
3,8174,2678,425
1920R
−14.2%
4,0115,3719,571
1916R
−9.1%
2,7233,2866,213
1912D
+24.0%
2,5631,1505,899
1908R
−8.8%
2,7853,3376,301
1904R
−9.4%
2,5193,0635,802
1900R
−5.8%
2,8913,2516,245
1896D
+0.5%
2,6792,6535,509
1892D
+1.9%
1,6641,5814,262
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%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
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
48.0%
Other Christian
6.8%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.4%
Catholic & Orthodox
4.3%
Methodist
3.7%
Mainline Protestant
0.2%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 31.6% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Ohio County delivered a 60-point Republican margin in 2024, reflecting the lopsided partisan alignment that has reshaped rural western Kentucky over the past two decades as manufacturing and agricultural economies contracted.

The Republican margin in Ohio County reached its widest at sixty points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was sixty points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Ohio County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $57,798, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 23,735 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 Jasper County and Cumberland County.