Editing Fayette County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresHead|place=Fayette County, Kentucky|source=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS|title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections|last=Leip|first=David|website=uselectionatlas.org|access-date=July 1, 2018}}</ref>}}
{{PresRow|2024|Democratic|57,347|83,387|3,201|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Democratic|58,860|90,600|3,452|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Democratic|56,894|69,778|9,643|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Democratic|60,795|62,080|2,991|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Democratic|59,884|66,042|1,722|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|66,406|57,994|1,176|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|54,495|47,277|3,705|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|42,930|43,632|6,102|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|41,908|38,306|15,320|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|48,065|32,554|906|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|51,993|28,961|792|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|35,349|30,511|5,957|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|35,170|28,012|1,807|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|42,362|19,828|1,476|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|24,948|16,902|8,523|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|18,739|25,317|136|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|25,169|16,478|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|21,904|13,547|232|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|17,376|14,275|138|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|10,959|13,202|1,988|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|10,857|13,567|174|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|12,514|15,834|84|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|11,544|14,428|203|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|11,847|15,765|257|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|16,988|9,065|39|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|11,755|10,433|331|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|11,032|12,926|181|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|5,472|6,348|89|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|4,060|5,268|1,414|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|4,748|5,247|158|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|3,947|5,119|141|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,302|4,293|83|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1896|Republican|5,143|3,938|179|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|2,431|3,753|352|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|3,301|3,435|123|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|3,000|2,593|47|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|2,830|2,449|41|Kentucky}}
For much of the 20th century, Fayette County leaned more Republican than Kentucky as a whole. Between [[1952 United States presidential election|1952]] and [[2004 United States presidential election|2004]], it voted for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee all but twice, for [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] in 1964 and [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996, with the latter only carrying the county by a narrow plurality. Even Southern Democrat [[Jimmy Carter]] lost the county by 11 points in 1976, despite winning Kentucky by a comfortable margin.

Until the mid-2000s, it did not swing as heavily to the Democrats as other urban counties. From 1992 to 2016, it was a swing county with close results between the two parties. In [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]], [[Barack Obama]] became the first Democrat to win the county since [[Bill Clinton]] in 1996, and the first Democrat to win a majority of its votes since Johnson. In [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]], [[Hillary Clinton]] won the county by the largest margin since Johnson, although it was one of only two counties in the entire Commonwealth to vote for her, the other being [[Jefferson County, Kentucky|Jefferson County]], home to the city of [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]].

In 2020, [[Joe Biden]] turned in the strongest showing for a Democrat in the county in over a century, bettering even [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]. In that year, Fayette County was the most Democratic county in the Commonwealth, giving Biden a slightly larger margin than Jefferson County, marking the first time since [[1948 United States presidential election|1948]] that Fayette County voted to the left of Jefferson County in a presidential election. This marked the first time that Fayette County was the most Democratic county in the state in Kentucky history. With nearly 60% of the vote, Biden received the highest percentage of the vote in the county of any Democratic candidate in history. Also in 2020, [[Donald Trump]] received the lowest portion of the vote for any Republican candidate in the county since [[William Howard Taft]] in [[1912 United States presidential election|1912]].

The county voted "No" on [[2022 Kentucky Amendment 2]], an anti-abortion ballot measure, by 73% to 27%, outpacing its support of [[Joe Biden]] during the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite web |title=November 8, 2022 - Official 2022 General Election Results |url=https://elect.ky.gov/results/2020-2029/Documents/2022%20General%20Election%20results.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth of Kentucky State Board of Elections |access-date=December 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224001202/https://elect.ky.gov/results/2020-2029/Documents/2022%20General%20Election%20results.pdf |archive-date=December 24, 2022}}</ref>

===Elected officials===
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| colspan="3" |'''Elected officials as of January 3, 2025'''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/smembers_county.html |title=Senate Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/hmembers_county.html |title=House Members - County |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=apps.legislature.ky.gov |publisher=[[Kentucky General Assembly]] |access-date=January 3, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>
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! scope=row|[[U.S. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Andy Barr (American politician)|Andy Barr]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|6|B}}
|- 
!rowspan=7 |[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Amanda Mays Bledsoe]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 12th Senate district|12]]
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Reggie Thomas|Reginald Thomas]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Kentucky's 13th Senate district|13]]
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Matt Nunn (politician)|Matt Nunn]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 17th Senate district|17]]
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Donald Douglas (politician)|Donald Douglas]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 22nd Senate district|22]]
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Steve West (Kentucky politician)|Stephen West]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 27th Senate district|27]]
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Greg Elkins]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 28th Senate district|28]]
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Jared Carpenter]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 34th Senate district|34]]
|- 
!rowspan=9 |[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Matt Lockett]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|39
|- 
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Adam Moore (politician)|Adam Moore]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|45
|- 
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Ryan Dotson]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|73
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Lindsey Burke]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|75
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Anne Donworth]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|76
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[George Brown Jr. (Kentucky politician)|George Brown Jr.]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|77
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Chad Aull]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|79
|-
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Vanessa Grossl]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|88
|-
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|[[Adrielle Camuel]] (D)
| {{party shading/Democratic}}|93
|}