Somerset, KY · which candidate this place backed 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 this place is a single county: Pulaski County, Kentucky. The figures below are that county’s, which is the same territory — not a larger unit standing in for it.
Presidential nominating contests in Somerset, 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+52.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+65.2
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 13 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Somerset, KY in Somerset, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+298
2012
+13
2013
+269
2014
+135
2015
+47
2016
+180
2017
+440
2018
+322
2019
+434
2021
+720
2022
+564
2023
+622
2024
+776
2025
+593
Somerset anchors Pulaski County, one of Kentucky's most reliably Republican-leaning counties, where Lake Cumberland tourism and small manufacturing shape a workforce that skews older and rural even by regional standards.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 4.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 66.7 points in 2016. Between 2020 and 2024 the metro moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 65.2 points.
A population of 65,897, a 92% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,898 describe the metro. The metro's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Corbin, KY and Sevierville, TN.
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In 2024, Somerset, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 65.2 points (R+65.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 31,735 votes cast, 5,351 went Democratic and 26,051 went Republican.
When did Somerset, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Somerset, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1912.
How many people live in Somerset, KY, Kentucky?
Somerset, KY, Kentucky has a population of 65,897 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Somerset, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Somerset, KY, Kentucky is $51,898 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Somerset, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Somerset, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 1 went Democratic and 33 went Republican.
