2024 United States presidential election in Kentucky
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The 2024 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. Kentucky voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Kentucky has 8 electoral votes in the Electoral College, following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat. Prior to the election, all major news organizations once again considered Kentucky a safe red state; the state has voted Republican and by double-digit margins in every presidential election since 2000. On election night, Kentucky voted Republican for former president Donald Trump by a wide margin for the third time in a row, with him winning the state by 30 %, a considerable increase from his 25 % victory in 2020 and to a lesser extent his 29 % victory in 2016. He received about 1 million Kentucky votes which was a record for votes cast for any candidate in state history. This is the best performance by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history, surpassing Richard Nixon's 1972 performance. Trump's vote share of 64 % is also the third-highest in state history, behind only 1864 and 1868.