Tue. Nov 26th, 2024

Voters lined up on Election Day at the Scott County Public Library precinct in Georgetown, on Nov. 5, 2024. (Kentucky Lantern photo by Arden Barnes)

Former President Donald Trump has again won Kentucky’s eight electoral votes.

The Associated Press called Kentucky for the Republican presidential nominee Tuesday shortly after polls closed in the state’s Central Time Zone. 

According to the election analysis company Decision Desk HQ, Trump led Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in Kentucky by 48 percentage points shortly after 7 p.m.

Trump’s win in the Bluegrass State was expected, given the former president’s victories of more than 25 percentage points in Kentucky in 2020 and 2016. 

In his two earlier races, Trump won all but the two largest of Kentucky’s 120 counties, Jefferson and Fayette, home to Louisville and Lexington. 

Republicans are also expected to easily held onto five of Kentucky’s six seats in the U.S. House of Representatives, though the Associated Press hasn’t yet called those races. Democrats fielded no candidates against Republican U.S. Reps. Thomas Massie and Hal Rogers. Democratic U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey, representing Kentucky’s lone Democratic-leaning congressional district in Louisville, won a second term.

This story will be updated.

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