LESS THAN 10 PERCENT OF LAWRENCE COUNTY REGISTERED VOTERS CAST THEIR BALLOT VOTES IN TUESDAY PRIMARY ELECTION
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE RACE IS ALREADY DECIDED IN REELECTION OF HAL ROGERS, AS THERE WAS NO DEMOCRAT CONTENTER WHO RAN IN THE PRIMARY
MAY 21, 2024 – written by WADE QUEEN
ALL ELDERLY LEADERS TO VOTE FOR IN 2024: DONALD TRUMP, JOE BIDEN , & HAL ROGERS.
Kentucky held its primary voting on Tuesday, May 21; however there was no exciting atmosphere, as a very light turnout was the way (as was predicted), with only three races in a set up where there was no doubt on the results outcome, but only to guess how low the turnout was going to be.
As support for the Democrat Party has shrunk across the vast majority of the state, especially across eastern Kentucky, where only the Governor’s office and one U.S. Congress holder being blue members of the party; with Republicans holding a vast supermajority hold in the Kentucky legislature. In some counties the donkey party status has collapsed to the point where no local Democrats hold elected office positions, and not even having any Democrat Party challengers even sign up to run in the straight party primaries, leaving Republican candidates getting de facto elected or reelected nearly six months early.
The three races of contention were the Republican Presidential primary vote, the Democrat Presidential primary vote, and the U.S House of Representatives 5th Congressional District Republican primary vote.
In Lawrence County, a total of 1,190 votes were cast. As of April 2024, there were 12,272 registered voters; which would mean around 9.69% of registered voters in Lawrence County. 4,337 are registered as Democrats; 6,900 are registered as Republicans; 497 are registered as Other; 498 are registered as Independents; 36 are registered as Libertarian; 2 are registered as Green Party; 1 is registered as Constitutional Party; 1 is registered as Reformist Party; with 5,936 of which are men, and 6,312 are women.
Here are the results of Tuesday’s three election races:
There were no Democratic candidates for any opposition in this year’s 5th Congressional District race; which means Hal Rogers has been reelected to another term, which will be his 23rd term, having served since 1981.
As his district is considered a Republican stronghold, Hal Rogers has won reelection with over 65% of the vote in every election since 1980, with the sole exception of 1992. On March 18, 2022, Hal Rogers became the dean of the House of Representatives. which is a designation for the longest continuously serving member of the House.
