Clinton County, KY is governed by a board of county commissioners which consists of three members. The current members are Sam Walker, Joe White, and Bill Jones. Elections for the board of county commissioners are held every four years in November. The board is responsible for setting the budget for various local government departments and determining how tax money should be spent within the county. They also make decisions on important local issues such as road construction, community development, and education policies. In addition to the board of county commissioners, Clinton County has an elected sheriff's office and a court system that is responsible for upholding the law in the region. Residents can get involved in local politics by attending town hall meetings or participating in public forums about proposed legislation. Through these meetings and events citizens can make their voices heard and have a say in how Clinton County is governed by its elected officials.
The political climate in Clinton County, KY is very conservative.
In Clinton County, KY 12.2% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 86.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.0% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clinton county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 86.8% to 12.2%.
Clinton county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Clinton County, KY is very conservative.
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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.
Clinton, 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 Clinton County, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 73 contributions totaling $2,384 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $33 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 91 contributions totaling $45,246 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $497 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)