Bullitt County in Kentucky is a vibrant community located just south of Louisville. Politically, the county is largely conservative in its leanings with Republicans dominating most local offices. The current sheriff of Bullitt is Scott Marshall, who was elected in 2018 and reelected for a second term in 2020. Other notable Republican office holders include Judge/Executive David Nicholson, State Representative Joe Fischer and State Senator Dennis Parrett. Democrats also have representation in Bullitt, with State Senator Dorsey Ridley and State Representative Lisa Willner both serving alongside their Republican counterparts at the state level. Despite having a largely conservative population, Bullitt County does have pockets of active progressive voters who are passionate about their beliefs and regularly get involved with political activities within the community.
The political climate in Bullitt County, KY is very conservative.
In Bullitt County, KY 25.1% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 73.1% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Bullitt county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 73.1% to 25.1%.
Bullitt county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Bullitt County, KY is very conservative.
Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Area is leaning conservative.
Kentucky is strongly conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Bullitt, Kentucky: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Bullitt County, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 414 contributions totaling $33,578 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $81 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 369 contributions totaling $62,928 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $171 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)