Menifee County, Kentucky

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 3,300 votes cast

Trump · R+58

Harris +50

Trump +50

Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.

38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−57.5%	664	2,563	3,300
2020	R	−50.3%	750	2,311	3,102
2016	R	−47.1%	700	2,010	2,779
2012	R	−16.8%	1,048	1,484	2,598
2008	D	+4.9%	1,276	1,155	2,489
2004	D	+2.7%	1,284	1,215	2,528
2000	R	−5.9%	1,038	1,170	2,249
1996	D	+20.8%	979	608	1,781
1992	D	+35.2%	1,311	557	2,145
1988	D	+23.8%	1,096	670	1,788
1984	D	+9.7%	956	785	1,770
1980	D	+27.2%	966	547	1,543
1976	D	+54.4%	1,041	304	1,356
1972	D	+10.0%	732	596	1,358
1968	D	+3.4%	554	509	1,317
1964	D	+54.1%	1,076	318	1,401
1960	D	+9.5%	989	817	1,806
1956	D	+19.4%	1,185	799	1,985
1952	D	+31.2%	1,219	638	1,863
1948	D	+43.3%	1,112	435	1,564
1944	D	+26.4%	976	568	1,547
1940	D	+39.3%	1,176	511	1,692
1936	D	+33.5%	1,123	559	1,686
1932	D	+49.8%	1,425	474	1,910
1928	R	−0.5%	725	732	1,457
1924	D	+31.5%	873	450	1,344
1920	D	+32.5%	1,149	581	1,746
1916	D	+32.8%	730	369	1,100
1912	D	+37.8%	643	254	1,030
1908	D	+29.7%	833	451	1,285
1904	D	+22.8%	719	450	1,178
1900	D	+28.4%	845	470	1,322
1896	D	+27.5%	636	359	1,009
1892	D	+26.9%	475	258	808
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 46.2 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

1.4%

85+

0.4%

3.5%

75–84

4.8%

7.3%

65–74

6.0%

7.3%

55–64

7.6%

6.4%

45–54

6.8%

5.8%

35–44

6.0%

4.0%

25–34

3.8%

4.3%

18–24

3.5%

7.0%

5–17

8.6%

2.8%

2.7%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$45,096

Menifee County ranks in the bottom 10% of US counties.

Menifee County$45,096

Kentucky$63,726

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

26.9%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Other Christian

8.5%

Baptist

5.7%

Pentecostal & Holiness

4.5%

Mainline Protestant

0.3%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 81.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With roughly 6,500 residents tucked into the Daniel Boone National Forest, Menifee County has shifted so decisively toward Republican presidential candidates that its margins now rank among the widest in the state.

The unraveling was not abrupt. The Democratic margin in Menifee County peaked at fifty-four points in 1976; it narrowed steadily over the late twentieth century. The 2012 election delivered the county to the Republican party for the first time in many years, by a margin of seventeen points. By 2024, the margin had widened further.

The economic and demographic context is severe. Menifee County's median household income of $45,096 is among the lowest of any county in the United States; 27% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bath County and Wolfe County.

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For one hundred sixteen years, Menifee County voted Democratic. Then it stopped.