Mount Sterling, 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 Mount Sterling, KY, by party and cycle.
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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 · 2024D+10.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+49.5
Mount Sterling, KY registers Democratic but votes Republican — a 60-point gap between how voters register and how they vote, the signature of ancestral registration that trails realignment.
Domestic migration in Mount Sterling, KY in Mount Sterling, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+213
2012
−28
2013
+340
2014
+110
2015
+279
2016
+175
2017
+333
2018
+165
2019
+109
2021
+356
2022
+389
2023
+471
2024
+341
2025
+355
Montgomery County anchors this compact metro at the eastern edge of the Bluegrass region, where Republican margins in federal races have widened steadily over the past two decades as coal-era economic anxieties reshaped voter alignment.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 39.9 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 49.5 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 6.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.5 points.
A population of 47,476, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $54,952 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Lewisburg, TN and McMinnville, TN.
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How did Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 49.5 points (R+49.5), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 21,504 votes cast, 5,271 went Democratic and 15,906 went Republican.
When did Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky?
Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky has a population of 47,476 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky is $54,952 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Mount Sterling, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 23 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
