The politics in the Paducah, KY Metro Area are heavily influenced by the local government. The city of Paducah is governed by an elected mayor and a four-member board of commissioners who serve four-year terms. All other towns and cities in the Metro Area are governed by elected town councils or mayors. In addition to the local governments, there are several state representatives from Kentucky that represent the area in the Kentucky General Assembly. Furthermore, US Representatives and Senators from Kentucky widely represent this area in Washington D.C. As far as elections go, locals within the Paducah Metro Area have plenty of political choices when it comes to voting for their preferred candidate.
The political climate in Paducah Metro Area is very conservative.
In Paducah Metro Area 29.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 68.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, the Paducah metro area remained overwhelmingly Republican, 68.8% to 29.7%.
The Paducah metro area voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Paducah 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.
Paducah, 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 four elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Paducah Metro Area
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 1,041 contributions totaling $207,767 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $200 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 1,043 contributions totaling $612,692 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $587 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)