combined metro areaBowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
presidential margin
2004–2024 · Democratic minus Republican
2004R+31.4
2008R+26.9
2012R+29.0
2016R+38.9
2020R+34.7
2024R+40.6
full record · 1892 → 2024
presidential returns
2024 turnout 58.4% of 192,137 citizens 18+
Year
Democrat
Republican
Others
Total
CVAP
Turnout
2024
32,505
78,108
1,591
112,204
192,137
58.4%
2020
35,210
73,667
1,953
110,830
184,583
60.0%
2016
27,636
65,753
4,620
98,009
176,205
55.6%
2012
30,755
56,469
1,352
88,576
169,374
52.3%
2008
32,459
56,813
1,155
90,427
161,070
56.1%
2004
28,959
55,746
568
85,273
152,766†
55.8%
† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
——
D+60R+60
7 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupBowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KYKentuckyUnited States
English14.1%14.5%9.5%
American13.0%11.5%5.3%
Irish8.8%11.0%9.4%
German8.5%12.7%12.5%
Scottish2.3%2.0%1.3%
Italian2.0%2.0%4.8%
Polish0.9%—2.2%
Scotch-Irish0.8%0.8%—
African American†5.8%6.6%9.9%
African0.2%0.5%0.5%
Mexican2.9%2.4%11.3%
Cuban0.5%0.7%0.7%
Guatemalan0.5%0.3%0.5%
Salvadoran0.4%—0.7%
Puerto Rican0.3%0.5%1.8%
Spanish0.2%——
Burmese1.4%——
Asian Indian0.4%0.3%1.4%
Vietnamese0.2%—0.6%
Pakistani0.2%——
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
Kentucky
United States
Median age
36.7
39.2
39.1
Age 18–24
11.3%
9.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
15.6%
17.3%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
Kentucky
United States
Median household income
$60,848
$63,726
$84,427
Poverty rate
17.5%
16.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
24.9%
27.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
Kentucky
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
10.7%
6.8%
22.3%
Spanish
3.8%
3.4%
13.6%
German or other West Germanic
1.3%
0.6%
0.5%
Russian, Polish, or other Slavic
1.2%
0.3%
0.7%
Other Asian & Pacific Island
2.0%
0.5%
1.1%
Religious landscape
Measure
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
Kentucky
United States
Catholic
4.6%
7.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
33.9%
31.3%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
52.7%
50.7%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
5.8%
5.5%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+5.6%
1896
+4.7%
1900
+1.5%
1904
+0.6%
1908
−0.6%
1912
+20.4%
1916
+2.9%
1920
−2.0%
1924
+1.1%
1928
−28.9%
1932
+17.0%
1936
+9.8%
1940
+5.9%
1944
−0.1%
1948
+9.9%
1952
−5.9%
1956
−8.5%
1960
−16.4%
1964
+19.7%
1968
−20.6%
1972
−35.0%
1976
+5.1%
1980
−14.1%
1984
−32.1%
1988
−25.0%
1992
−7.8%
1996
−12.7%
2000
−27.4%
2004
−31.4%
2008
−26.9%
2012
−29.0%
2016
−38.9%
2020
−34.7%
2024
−40.6%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
29.0%Harris32,505
69.6%Trump78,108
1.4%
R+40.6
R+5.9
R+39.2
112,204
R
31.8%Biden35,210
66.5%Trump73,667
1.8%
R+34.7
D+4.2
R+39.2
110,830
R
28.2%Clinton27,636
67.1%Trump65,753
4.7%
R+38.9
R+9.9
R+41.0
98,009
R
34.7%Obama30,755
63.8%Romney56,469
1.5%
R+29.0
R+2.1
R+32.9
88,576
R
35.9%Obama32,459
62.8%McCain56,813
1.3%
R+26.9
D+4.5
R+34.2
90,427
R
34.0%Kerry28,959
65.4%Bush55,746
0.7%
R+31.4
R+4.0
R+29.0
85,273
R
35.6%Gore25,970
63.0%Bush45,940
1.4%
R+27.4
R+14.7
R+27.9
72,926
R
39.8%Clinton25,420
52.4%Dole33,503
7.8%
R+12.7
R+4.9
R+21.2
63,883
R
40.0%Clinton26,915
47.7%Bush32,140
12.3%
R+7.8
D+17.3
R+13.3
67,328
R
37.3%Dukakis22,387
62.3%Bush37,409
0.4%
R+25.0
D+7.1
R+17.3
60,054
R
33.8%Mondale19,931
65.8%Reagan38,855
0.4%
R+32.1
R+18.0
R+13.8
59,014
R
41.7%Carter23,805
55.9%Reagan31,850
2.4%
R+14.1
R+19.3
R+4.4
57,024
D
52.1%Carter25,431
47.0%Ford22,920
0.9%
D+5.1
D+40.1
D+3.1
48,797
R
31.8%McGovern14,767
66.7%Nixon31,025
1.5%
R+35.0
R+14.4
R+11.8
46,501
R
28.6%Humphrey13,467
49.2%Nixon23,163
22.3%
R+20.6
R+40.3
R+19.9
47,117
D
59.7%Johnson26,042
40.0%Goldwater17,436
0.3%
D+19.7
D+36.1
R+2.8
43,588
R
41.8%Kennedy20,329
58.2%Nixon28,284
0.0%
R+16.4
R+7.9
R+16.5
48,613
R
45.7%Stevenson21,511
54.1%Eisenhower25,498
0.2%
R+8.5
R+2.6
D+6.9
47,115
R
47.0%Stevenson20,195
52.8%Eisenhower22,717
0.2%
R+5.9
R+15.8
D+4.9
43,004
D
53.5%Truman19,039
43.6%Dewey15,516
2.8%
D+9.9
D+10.0
D+5.4
35,560
R
49.8%Roosevelt20,393
49.9%Dewey20,431
0.3%
R+0.1
R+6.0
R+7.6
40,930
D
52.8%Roosevelt22,056
46.9%Willkie19,605
0.3%
D+5.9
R+3.9
R+4.1
41,768
D
54.7%Roosevelt23,013
45.0%Landon18,906
0.3%
D+9.8
R+7.2
R+14.5
42,038
D
58.3%Roosevelt27,686
41.3%Hoover19,618
0.4%
D+17.0
D+45.9
R+0.8
47,514
R
35.5%Smith15,578
64.5%Hoover28,280
0.0%
R+28.9
R+30.0
R+11.5
43,877
D
50.1%Davis20,137
49.0%Coolidge19,704
0.9%
D+1.1
D+3.1
D+26.3
40,219
R
48.7%Cox21,939
50.7%Harding22,856
0.6%
R+2.0
R+4.9
D+24.2
45,067
D
51.0%Wilson14,271
48.1%Hughes13,468
0.9%
D+2.9
R+17.5
R+0.3
27,987
D
48.1%Wilson12,010
27.7%Taft6,926
24.2%
D+20.4
D+21.0
D+0.8
24,972
R
48.8%Bryan12,841
49.4%Taft13,002
1.8%
R+0.6
R+1.2
D+8.9
26,312
D
49.2%Parker12,176
48.6%Roosevelt12,026
2.2%
D+0.6
R+0.9
D+20.3
24,756
D
50.1%Bryan12,785
48.6%McKinley12,404
1.4%
D+1.5
R+3.2
D+9.0
25,534
D
51.1%Bryan12,623
46.4%McKinley11,453
2.6%
D+4.7
R+0.9
D+10.8
24,708
D
46.6%Cleveland8,911
41.0%Harrison7,837
12.4%
D+5.6
—
D+4.0
19,116
Congressional elections · 2 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2022
R
32.4%24,857
67.6%51,940
76,801
2020
R
34.0%37,593
61.2%67,728
110,671
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+15.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+40.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 26 points more Democratic.
Domestic migration in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+581
2012
+635
2013
+1,071
2014
+866
2015
+1,990
2016
+1,262
2017
+1,964
2018
+1,707
2019
+1,803
2021
+2,424
2022
+3,306
2023
+2,158
2024
+1,962
2025
+2,392
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 40.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.6 points.
A population of 262,294, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,848 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middlesborough-Corbin, KY and Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS.
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How did Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 40.6 points (R+40.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 112,204 votes cast, 32,505 went Democratic and 78,108 went Republican.
When did Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky has a population of 262,294 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky is $60,848 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
