Kentucky state legislative election results, 2024
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The sections below contain analysis of election results in the state legislative elections for Kentucky in 2024.
General election results
Senate
- See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2024
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Retiring incumbents
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Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Kentucky. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in Kentucky in 2024. Information below was calculated on Feb. 28, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Twenty-six Kentucky state legislative incumbents faced primary challenges in 2024, representing 25.2% of all incumbents running for re-election. This was the second-highest number and percentage of contested incumbents since 2014.
Of the 26 incumbents in contested primaries, six were Democrats and 20 were Republicans.
Kentucky had 44 contested state legislative primaries in 2024, a 23% decrease from 2022.
Of the 44 contested primaries, there were 16 for Democrats and 28 for Republicans. For Democrats, this was one more than in 2022. For Republicans, the number was down 33% from 42 in 2022.
Overall, 227 major party candidates — 91 Democrats and 136 Republicans — filed to run. All 100 House and 19 of 38 Senate seats were up for election.
Seventeen of those seats were open, meaning no incumbents filed. This guaranteed that at least 14% of seats up for election would be represented by newcomers in 2025.
Senate
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Kentucky State Senate from 2010 to 2024.[1]
| Open Seats in Kentucky State Senate elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 19 | 4 (21 percent) | 15 (79 percent) |
| 2022 | 19 | 6 (32 percent) | 13 (68 percent) |
| 2020 | 19 | 3 (16 percent) | 16 (84 percent) |
| 2018 | 19 | 1 (5 percent) | 18 (95 percent) |
| 2016 | 19 | 2 (11 percent) | 17 (89 percent) |
| 2014 | 19 | 4 (21 percent) | 15 (79 percent) |
| 2012 | 19 | 3 (16 percent) | 16 (84 percent) |
| 2010 | 19 | 2 (11 percent) | 17 (89 percent) |
House
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Kentucky House of Representatives from 2010 to 2024.[2]
| Open Seats in Kentucky House of Representatives elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 100 | 13 (13 percent) | 87 (87 percent) |
| 2022 | 100 | 14 (14 percent) | 86 (86 percent) |
| 2020 | 100 | 14 (14 percent) | 86 (86 percent) |
| 2018 | 100 | 20 (20 percent) | 80 (80 percent) |
| 2016 | 100 | 8 (8 percent) | 92 (92 percent) |
| 2014 | 100 | 7 (7 percent) | 93 (93 percent) |
| 2012 | 100 | 8 (8 percent) | 92 (92 percent) |
| 2010 | 100 | 5 (5 percent) | 95 (95 percent) |
See also
- Elections
- Elections calendar
- Elections by state and year
- State Poll Opening and Closing Times
- State legislative elections, 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
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