Bowling Green, Kentucky is located in Warren County and serves as the county seat. The city is home to nearly 67,000 people and has a thriving political scene. Several elected officials serve on the City Commission, including a mayor, vice mayor, and six commissioners who are elected at-large by residents. At the state level, Bowling Green is represented in both the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate by several local representatives from both major political parties. Additionally, Bowling Green is home to many local political groups that focus on issues that matter most to the community such as education, health care, economic development, transportation infrastructure, and civil rights. Despite its small size compared to larger cities in Kentucky and around the country, Bowling Green has a vibrant political culture with passionate residents who are engaged in their democracy.
The political climate in Zip 42104 (Bowling Green, KY) is somewhat conservative.
Warren County, KY is moderately conservative. In Warren County, KY 40.6% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 57.4% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Warren county remained very strongly Republican, 57.4% to 40.6%.
Warren county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 42104 (Bowling Green, KY) is somewhat conservative.
Bowling Green, Kentucky is somewhat conservative.
Warren County, Kentucky is moderately conservative.
Bowling Green Metro Area is strongly 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.
Bowling Green, 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 zip 42104 (Bowling Green)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 3,275 contributions totaling $76,016 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $23 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 317 contributions totaling $116,020 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $366 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)