Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
75.4%
36,111 votes · D+51.1
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 75.1%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
73.5%
49,200 votes · R+48.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 71.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
36,111votes
75.4% of the vote · D+51.1
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 34,880 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
49,548votes
71.5% of the vote · R+44.5
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 49,200 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
James M. Cox1920
+49.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.9 · U.S. R+26.2
Runner-up · John W. Davis, 1924 · +48.1 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+49.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.0 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +49.0 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton628,594 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders5Clinton117,028 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
Biden614,819 votes · 6 of 6 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
15,275
2018 (partial)
11,107
2020 (partial)
11,485
2022 (partial)
11,444
2024
115,585
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+292 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −948 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+448
2012
−509
2013
−724
2014
+14
2015
−930
2016
−150
2017
−68
2018
−273
2019
−224
2021
+259
2022
+260
2023
+327
2024
+330
2025
+292
Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 51.1 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 48.1 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 3.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 48.1 points.
A population of 139,378, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,560 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Union City-Martin, TN and Florence-Muscle Shoals-Russellville, AL.
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How did Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky voted Republican by 48.1 points (R+48.1), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 66,971 votes cast, 16,970 went Democratic and 49,200 went Republican.
When did Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky has a population of 139,378 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Median household income in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky is $60,560 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Paducah-Mayfield, KY-IL, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 25 went Democratic and 9 went Republican.
