Paducah, KY-IL · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 · 34 presidential cycles
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
73.6%
26,153 votes · D+47.6
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 71.4%
Republican
Donald Trump2024
71.2%
35,822 votes · R+43.7
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2016 · 69.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
26,153votes
73.6% of the vote · D+47.6
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 25,898 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
36,342votes
69.6% of the vote · R+40.6
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 35,822 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Adlai Stevenson1956
+40.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.0 · U.S. R+15.4
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +40.0 pts
Republican
Donald Trump2016
+45.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+43.8 · U.S. D+2.1
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +45.0 pts
U.S. House elections · 3 House
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U.S. House
On a multi-state Place, each row sums votes cast in the separate U.S. House races held inside the Place that year. It is a geographic vote total, not one contest or a seat tally.
Paducah, KY-IL · 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 Paducah, KY-IL, by party and cycle.
Party
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
Democratic
Clinton520,438 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Sanders4Clinton111,902 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
Biden511,578 votes · 5 of 5 countiesprimary
○no contest record
Republicannot ingested
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○no contest record
○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
Registered voters
† Some years predate full county coverage; a flagged year sums only the counties reporting it.
Voter registration in Paducah, KY-IL
Year
Total registered
2016 (partial)
15,275
2018 (partial)
11,107
2020 (partial)
11,485
2022 (partial)
11,444
2024
88,971
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+35 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −574 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Paducah, KY-IL in Paducah, KY-IL: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+259
2012
−385
2013
−511
2014
−83
2015
−513
2016
−16
2017
+66
2018
−275
2019
−80
2021
+49
2022
+305
2023
+343
2024
+232
2025
+35
Paducah's metro straddles the Kentucky-Illinois border where the Ohio and Tennessee rivers meet, giving it an unusual cross-state economic identity; McCracken County, its Kentucky core, has shifted toward double-digit Republican margins in presidential races over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 47.6 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 43.8 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 3.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 43.7 points.
A population of 102,748, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,050 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Gadsden, AL and Forest City, NC.
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In 2024, Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky voted Republican by 43.7 points (R+43.7), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 50,293 votes cast, 13,865 went Democratic and 35,822 went Republican.
When did Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1996.
How many people live in Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky has a population of 102,748 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Median household income in Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky is $64,050 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $83,390.
What is the political history of Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Paducah, KY-IL, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 24 went Democratic and 10 went Republican.
