Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, 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-Glasgow-Franklin, 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+15.1
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+40.6
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 26 points more Republican than the rolls.
Domestic migration in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+581
2012
+635
2013
+1,071
2014
+866
2015
+1,990
2016
+1,262
2017
+1,964
2018
+1,707
2019
+1,803
2021
+2,424
2022
+3,306
2023
+2,158
2024
+1,962
2025
+2,392
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY sits in the Border South. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 40.6 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the region moved 5.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 40.6 points.
A population of 262,294, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,848 describe the region. The region's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Middlesborough-Corbin, KY and Joplin-Miami, MO-OK-KS.
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How did Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky vote in 2024?
In 2024, Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky voted Republican by 40.6 points (R+40.6), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 112,204 votes cast, 32,505 went Democratic and 78,108 went Republican.
When did Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky has a population of 262,294 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Median household income in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky is $60,848 — below the national median of $80,734. The Kentucky state median is $63,726.
What is the political history of Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Bowling Green-Glasgow-Franklin, KY, Kentucky from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 13 went Democratic and 21 went Republican.
