United States presidential election in Kentucky, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Kentucky took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Kentucky voters chose eight electors, or representatives to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Kentucky was won by incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson (D-Texas), with 64.01 percent of the popular vote, against Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. (R-Alabama), with 35.65 percent of the popular vote.

This is the solitary occasion since the Civil War that Owsley County has voted Democratic, the only time in its history, since its creation in 1878, that Leslie County has voted Democratic, and the only time since 1880 that Johnson County has given a majority to a Democratic presidential candidate (Al Gore won pluralities here in 2000 and 2004). This is also the first time since 1964 that Unionist strongholds Knox and Whitley Counties have voted Democratic, and only their second time since the Civil War that they have done so. Ferguson won 104 of Kentucky's 120 counties.