The 10 Most Conservative Cities In Kentucky For 2024


The most conservative cities in Kentucky are Corbin and London for 2024 based on Saturday Night Science.

Now that we’re headed towards the next big election, we wanted to get a better sense of what parts of Kentucky would be the most likely to back Donald Trump again.

Specifically, which cities have the highest number of conservative voters in the Bluegrass State?

To do so, we used Saturday Night Science to measure how each city in Kentucky with populations greater than 5,000 voted in past elections. The cities with the highest percentage of voters who voted Republican were named the most conservative cities in the state.


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The 10 most conservative places in Kentucky for 2024

  1. Corbin
  2. London
  3. Williamsburg
  4. Middlesborough
  5. Somerset
  6. Monticello
  7. Pikeville
  8. Leitchfield
  9. Mayfield
  10. Hazard)

Most Conservative Cities In Kentucky Map

If you’re wondering, Lexington-Fayette Urban County is the most liberal city in Kentucky of all those we measured.

And to be clear, we didn’t form this list based on our own biases — we relied on the cold hard data. For more on how we ran the numbers, keep on reading. Then we’ll take a closer look at each of our top 10 most conservative cities in Kentucky.

Additional reading about Kentucky and the most conservative places in the country:

The 10 Most Conservative Places In Kentucky For 2024

Corbin, KY

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Percent Republican: 83.0%
More on Corbin: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

London, KY

Source: Wikipedia User w.marsh | CC BY 2.0
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5
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Percent Republican: 82.7%
More on London: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Williamsburg, KY

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5
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Percent Republican: 81.9%
More on Williamsburg: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Middlesborough, KY

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4
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Percent Republican: 81.0%
More on Middlesborough: Data | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Somerset, KY

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Overall SnackAbility

4
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Percent Republican: 80.7%
More on Somerset: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Monticello, KY

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4
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Percent Republican: 80.4%
More on Monticello: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Pikeville, KY

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Overall SnackAbility

5
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Percent Republican: 79.9%
More on Pikeville: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Leitchfield, KY

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Overall SnackAbility

6
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Percent Republican: 78.9%
More on Leitchfield: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

Mayfield, KY

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3
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Percent Republican: 77.6%
More on Mayfield: Data | Crime | Cost Of Living | Real Estate

10. HazardHazard Location In Kentucky

Hazard, KY

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Percent Republican: 76.5%
More on Hazard: Real Estate

How we determined the most conservative cities in Kentucky for 2024

To find the most conservative places in Kentucky, we used Saturday Night Science – the argument you’d make at a bar – to find the cities with the most conservatives.

We started by making a list of every city in Kentucky over 5,000 people based on the 2018-2022 American Community Survey. That left us with 80 cities and towns.

We then measured the voting record and MIT election data to determine which places rock the most rightward in their allegiances by:

  1. Percentage Of Votes For The Republican President In 2020

Because no voting data exists at the city level, we used county-level election results from the 2020 election. We assigned every city in a county the percentage of votes that went to the Republicans, effectively extending the county’s results to the city level. In cases where larger cities encompassed an entire county, the election outcomes accurately reflected the city’s political landscape.

Next, we ranked each city from 1 to 80 for each criterion, where number one was the most conservative.

The winner, Corbin, is “The Most Conservative City in Kentucky For 2024”. The most liberal place in Kentucky was Lexington-Fayette Urban County.

We updated this article for 2024. This report is our tenth time ranking the most conservative places to live in Kentucky.

Summing Up The Conservative Strongholds in Kentucky

Well, there you have it, the places in Kentucky that have the highest number of conservatives per capita, with Corbin ranking as the most conservative in the entire state.

The most conservative cities in Kentucky are Corbin, London, Williamsburg, Middlesborough, Somerset, Monticello, Pikeville, Leitchfield, Mayfield, and Hazard.

If you’re curious, here are the least conservative cities in Kentucky:

  1. Lexington-Fayette Urban County
  2. Lyndon
  3. Douglass Hills

For more Kentucky reading, check out:

Most Conservative Places In Kentucky

Rank City Population % Conservative
1 Corbin, KY 8,611 83.0%
2 London, KY 7,612 82.7%
3 Williamsburg, KY 5,229 81.9%
4 Middlesborough, KY 9,383 81.0%
5 Somerset, KY 11,998 80.7%
6 Monticello, KY 5,770 80.4%
7 Pikeville, KY 7,563 79.9%
8 Leitchfield, KY 6,432 78.9%
9 Mayfield, KY 10,011 77.6%
10 Hazard, KY 5,194 76.5%
11 Princeton, KY 6,248 76.3%
12 Campbellsville, KY 11,434 74.9%
13 Central City, KY 5,740 73.8%
14 Russellville, KY 7,186 73.4%
15 Madisonville, KY 19,433 73.3%
16 Shepherdsville, KY 14,136 73.2%
17 Mount Washington, KY 17,987 73.2%
18 Hillview, KY 8,681 73.2%
19 Glasgow, KY 15,043 73.1%
20 Lawrenceburg, KY 11,749 72.9%
21 Harrodsburg, KY 9,057 72.5%
22 Flatwoods, KY 7,312 71.9%
23 Cynthiana, KY 6,355 71.5%
24 Mount Sterling, KY 7,532 70.1%
25 Maysville, KY 8,831 68.8%
26 Lebanon, KY 6,274 68.5%
27 Bardstown, KY 13,564 67.6%
28 Franklin, KY 10,141 67.4%
29 Florence, KY 32,056 66.9%
30 Union, KY 7,369 66.9%
31 Walton, KY 5,492 66.9%
32 Ashland, KY 21,542 65.8%
33 Winchester, KY 19,080 65.2%
34 Nicholasville, KY 31,352 65.1%
35 Wilmore, KY 6,017 65.1%
36 Paducah, KY 26,869 65.1%
37 Murray, KY 17,414 65.1%
38 Paris, KY 10,143 64.2%
39 Shelbyville, KY 17,239 63.9%
40 Oak Grove, KY 7,895 63.2%
41 Hopkinsville, KY 31,042 63.2%
42 Owensboro, KY 60,019 63.0%
43 Richmond, KY 34,883 62.3%
44 Berea, KY 15,404 62.3%
45 Henderson, KY 28,166 61.5%
46 Georgetown, KY 37,510 61.4%
47 Danville, KY 17,191 61.3%
48 Elizabethtown, KY 31,425 61.0%
49 Vine Grove, KY 6,611 61.0%
50 Radcliff, KY 22,981 61.0%
51 La Grange, KY 10,073 59.7%
52 Crestwood, KY 6,175 59.7%
53 Morehead, KY 7,001 59.6%
54 Fort Wright, KY 5,841 58.6%
55 Covington, KY 40,923 58.6%
56 Erlanger, KY 19,577 58.6%
57 Edgewood, KY 8,447 58.6%
58 Independence, KY 28,722 58.6%
59 Taylor Mill, KY 6,851 58.6%
60 Villa Hills, KY 7,331 58.6%
61 Fort Mitchell, KY 8,667 58.6%
62 Elsmere, KY 9,126 58.6%
63 Newport, KY 14,190 58.3%
64 Highland Heights, KY 6,566 58.3%
65 Dayton, KY 5,674 58.3%
66 Bellevue, KY 5,596 58.3%
67 Fort Thomas, KY 17,310 58.3%
68 Alexandria, KY 10,322 58.3%
69 Cold Spring, KY 6,258 58.3%
70 Bowling Green, KY 72,385 57.4%
71 Versailles, KY 10,297 55.0%
72 Frankfort, KY 28,460 49.5%
73 St. Matthews, KY 17,511 39.0%
74 Jeffersontown, KY 28,796 39.0%
75 Middletown, KY 9,594 39.0%
76 Louisville/jefferson County Metro Government (Balance), KY 629,176 39.0%
77 Shively, KY 15,595 39.0%
78 Douglass Hills, KY 5,466 39.0%
79 Lyndon, KY 10,997 39.0%
80 Lexington-Fayette Urban County, KY 321,276 38.5%
About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson earned his masters in Business Administration from the Drucker School At Claremont Graduate University. He has written for 39 publications across the country and ran the media relations department at Movoto, a real estate portal based in San Francisco. He has been featured in over 500 publications as an expert in real estate and as an authority on real estate trends.

Nick's the creator of the HomeSnacks YouTube channel that now has over 260,000 subscribers and is an excellent source to learn about different parts of the country.

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