The politics in Knox County, KY are mainly dominated by the Republican Party. Most of the county's representatives on both the state and federal level are Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Hal Rogers. The county also has a strong network of local political organizations that focus on supporting the Republican party and its candidates. These organizations include groups such as the Knox County Republican Women, the Knox County GOP Club, and the Knox County Tea Party Patriots. All of these groups work to provide information and support to local Republican campaigns and candidates throughout election season. In addition, Knox County also has two active Democratic organizations, known as the Democratic Women of Knox and the Democratic Party of Knox. Both of these groups offer their own events throughout election season in order to support their respective parties' candidates for office in Knox County.
The political climate in Knox County, KY is very conservative.
In Knox County, KY 15.9% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 83.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.1% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Knox county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 83.0% to 15.9%.
Knox county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Knox County, KY is very conservative.
London Metro Area is very 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.
Knox, 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 Knox County, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 65 contributions totaling $4,492 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $69 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 57 contributions totaling $23,002 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $404 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)