Editing Carroll County, Kentucky (section)

==Politics==
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|3,014|963|48|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|2,954|1,116|66|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|2,588|1,106|161|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|1,999|1,629|52|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|2,032|1,716|87|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|2,175|1,688|34|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|1,818|1,601|80|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1996|Democratic|1,170|1,689|378|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1992|Democratic|1,046|2,119|581|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1988|Democratic|1,702|1,913|21|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|1,824|1,564|12|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1980|Democratic|1,076|2,127|125|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1976|Democratic|815|2,251|33|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1972|Democratic|1,228|1,308|38|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1968|Democratic|868|1,765|519|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|491|2,592|22|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1960|Democratic|1,135|2,225|0|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1956|Democratic|1,130|2,169|17|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1952|Democratic|1,019|2,605|8|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1948|Democratic|639|2,626|160|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1944|Democratic|755|2,662|11|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|804|2,915|11|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|794|2,718|35|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|761|3,015|19|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1928|Democratic|1,649|1,863|3|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1924|Democratic|1,306|2,243|20|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1920|Democratic|906|3,209|26|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|535|1,757|19|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1912|Democratic|317|1,573|211|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1908|Democratic|546|1,514|47|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1904|Democratic|546|1,548|56|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1900|Democratic|749|1,808|27|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|685|1,778|56|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1892|Democratic|542|1,574|76|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1888|Democratic|623|1,632|73|Kentucky}}
{{PresRow|1884|Democratic|434|1,349|66|Kentucky}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Democratic|372|1,460|0|Kentucky}}
Carroll County was strongly pro-[[Confederate government of Kentucky|Confederate]] during the Civil War: only 2.70 percent of its white population volunteered to serve in the Union Army, which constitutes the fourteenth-lowest of 109 counties extant as of the 1860 election, and was indeed lower than for the whole [[Tennessee in the American Civil War|of seceded Tennessee]].<ref>Copeland, James E.; ‘Where Were the Kentucky Unionists and Secessionists’; ''The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society'', volume 71, no. 4 (October 1973), pp. 344-363</ref> Consequently, Carroll County remained overwhelmingly Democratic for the next century and a quarter, being the only Kentucky county outside the heavily unionized coalfields to vote for [[George McGovern]] in 1972. The first Republican to carry Carroll County was [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1984, and the growing social liberalism of the Democratic Party has meant the county has voted increasingly Republican since the turn of the century,<ref>Cohn, Nate; [https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/upshot/southern-whites-loyalty-to-gop-nearing-that-of-blacks-to-democrats.html ‘Demographic Shift: Southern Whites’ Loyalty to G.O.P. Nearing That of Blacks to Democrats’], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 24, 2014</ref> although [[Hillary Clinton]]'s 28.69 percent – even if over fifteen percent worse than any previous Democrat – was still as good as she received in any rural white southern county.

In gubernatorial elections, Carroll remained solidly Democratic for a long time, with no Republican gubernatorial candidate ever carrying the county until [[2019 Kentucky gubernatorial election|2019]], when it voted for [[Matt Bevin]].

The county voted "No" on [[2022 Kentucky Amendment 2]], an anti-abortion ballot measure, by 54% to 46%, and backed [[Donald Trump]] with 71% of the vote to [[Joe Biden]]'s 27% in 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}}|[[Thomas Massie]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|{{ushr|KY|4|B}}
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky Senate|Ky. Senate]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Gex Williams]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Kentucky's 20th Senate district|20]]
|- 
! scope=row|[[Kentucky House of Representatives|Ky. House]]
| {{party shading/Republican}}|[[Felicia Rabourn]] (R)
| {{party shading/Republican}}|47
|}