Edmonson County, Kentucky is a rural area located in south-central Kentucky. It is a beautiful and peaceful place to live with many recreational activities and scenic landscapes including the Barren River Lake State Park. Politically speaking, Edmonson County has traditionally been conservative-leaning in its voting patterns with most of the county’s residents typically voting for Republicans in state and federal races. The Republican Party holds a majority in both state legislative districts and representation on the county’s fiscal court board. Currently, Edmonson County does not have any local political candidates running for office as all of its current representatives were elected previously at the state level.
The political climate in Edmonson County, KY is very conservative.
In Edmonson County, KY 20.0% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 78.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.3% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Edmonson county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 78.7% to 20.0%.
Edmonson county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Edmonson County, KY is very 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.
Edmonson, 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 Edmonson County, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 19 contributions totaling $1,521 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $80 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 29 contributions totaling $7,137 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $246 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)