Editing Pulaski County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
{{PresHead|place=Pulaski County, Kentucky|whig=no|source1=<ref>{{Cite web |last=Leip |first=David |title=Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections |url=http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS |access-date=July 5, 2018 |website=uselectionatlas.org}}</ref>}}
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|26,051|5,351|333|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|25,442|5,666|449|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|22,902|4,208|931|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|20,714|4,976|313|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|19,862|5,590|314|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|19,535|5,829|152|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|15,845|5,415|281|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|11,945|5,340|1,544|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|11,423|5,465|2,526|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|13,482|4,788|72|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|14,434|4,384|75|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|12,970|6,570|379|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|9,226|5,752|105|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|10,602|3,080|88|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|8,290|2,823|1,788|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Republican|7,383|5,840|55|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|11,899|3,097|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|10,636|3,899|37|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|9,651|4,032|24|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|7,549|3,844|234|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|8,318|3,934|76|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Republican|8,533|4,896|39|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Republican|7,570|4,711|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Republican|6,905|4,931|25|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|9,348|2,494|15|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|6,435|3,158|676|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|7,262|3,749|48|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Republican|4,136|2,531|75|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1912|Democratic|1,731|1,980|1,871|Kentucky}}
As is typical of the Unionist bloc of south-central Kentucky comprising the eastern [[Pennyroyal Plateau]] and the western part of the [[Eastern Kentucky Coalfield|Eastern Coalfield]], Pulaski County has been deep red Republican ever since the Civil War. The solitary Democrat to carry Pulaski County since that time has been Woodrow Wilson in 1912 {{emdash}} and Wilson did so only when the Republican Party was deadlocked between the conservative incumbent [[William Howard Taft|Taft]] and the progressive [[Theodore Roosevelt]]{{emdash}} Wilson took just 34.68 percent of the county's vote and won Pulaski only by 195 votes over Roosevelt and 249 over Taft.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Presidential Election of 1912 – Map by Counties (.xlsx file for €15) |url=http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613185010/http://geoelections.free.fr/USA/elec_comtes/1912.htm |archive-date=June 13, 2018 |access-date=June 6, 2017 |publisher=Géoelections}}</ref>

With the exception of the cities of Burnside and Somerset, Pulaski County is a [[dry county]].

===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}}|[[Hal Rogers]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|5|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Rick Girdler]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 15th Senate district|15]]
|- 
!rowspan=5 |[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Ken Upchurch]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|52
|- 
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Josh Bray (politician)|Josh Bray]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|71
|- 
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[David Meade]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|80
|- 
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Josh Branscum]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|83
|- 
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Shane Baker]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|85
|}