Bowling Green, KY · how this place’s counties split between candidates in each party’s presidential nominating contest, cycle by cycle. A primary is a contest inside one party, so it has no Democratic–Republican margin and is not part of the general-election record above.
Akashic reports votes cast, not delegates awarded. The two can disagree: Clinton led the 2008 national primary popular vote by less than half a point and did not win the nomination.
Primary returns are published at county grain and there is no roll-up above it. Each cell counts how many of this place’s counties a candidate led — a count of records, not a vote total. Who led the place as a whole is not knowable from these returns, because county rows carry a leader and a lead but no per-candidate votes.
Presidential nominating contests in Bowling Green, KY, by party and cycle.
○no contest record — Akashic holds no result for that party and cycle here. It is not a claim that no contest was held. Telling apart a contest that was cancelled, one that went uncontested, and one simply not yet ingested needs a nominating-contest calendar, which is a separate ingest from results and does not exist yet.
Republican presidential primaries are not yet ingested — the Republican series runs from 1856 and is in scope. The row is kept so its absence is visible: a Democratic-only panel would otherwise read as though no one else held a contest.
Akashic carries 10 states for 2012 and 3 states for 2024. Cycles in which an incumbent president seeks renomination are thin by nature — few states run a contested primary — so a sparse column is politics, not a hole in the record.
County returns carry a leader and a lead over the runner-up, and nothing more. The full candidate field with vote shares is published at state grain — follow a cycle above to the state contest for it.
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+16.0
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+35.7
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 20 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Bowling Green, KY in Bowling Green, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+645
2012
+339
2013
+799
2014
+796
2015
+1,535
2016
+1,014
2017
+1,898
2018
+1,090
2019
+1,570
2021
+1,952
2022
+2,618
2023
+1,619
2024
+1,529
2025
+1,738
Bowling Green's electorate has trended reliably Republican at the federal level, but its large international refugee and immigrant community — one of Kentucky's most diverse — adds demographic complexity that distinguishes it from surrounding rural counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 40.2 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 35.7 points.
A population of 186,959, a 78% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $63,933 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Richmond-Berea, KY and Joplin, MO-KS.
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In 2024, Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 35.7 points (R+35.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 78,499 votes cast, 24,653 went Democratic and 52,639 went Republican.
When did Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1964.
How many people live in Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky?
Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky has a population of 186,959 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky is $63,933 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bowling Green, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 5 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
