Montgomery County is located in Kentucky and is a part of the Bluegrass region. Politically, Montgomery County leans slightly to the right, but there is still a fair amount of diversity in political views among its residents. The county has two state house congressional representatives, one Democrat and one Republican. These representatives are responsible for representing constituents' issues to the state legislature. At the county level, Montgomery County holds elections at regular intervals for posts such as Sheriff and County Commissioner. Generally speaking, most of these positions have been held by Republicans since 2000. Voter turnout in Montgomery County tends to be high with over 70 percent of registered voters participating in each election cycle.
The political climate in Montgomery County, KY is very conservative.
In Montgomery County, KY 28.3% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 70.0% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.7% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Montgomery county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 70.0% to 28.3%.
Montgomery county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Montgomery County, KY is very conservative.
Mount Sterling 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.
Montgomery, 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 Montgomery County, KY
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 297 contributions totaling $108,993 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $367 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 187 contributions totaling $65,363 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $350 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)