Republican Party of Kentucky | |
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| Chairperson | Robert J. Benvenuti III |
| Senate President | Robert Stivers |
| House Speaker | David Osborne |
| Headquarters | Frankfort, Kentucky |
| Membership (2023) |  1,609,649[1] |
| Ideology | Conservatism |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Colors | Red |
| Statewide Executive Offices | 5 / 7 |
| Seats in the Kentucky Senate | 31 / 38 |
| Seats in the Kentucky House of Representatives | 80 / 100 |
| Seats in the U.S. Senate | 2 / 2 |
| Seats in the U.S. House of Representatives | 5 / 6 |
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| Website | |
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The Republican Party of Kentucky is the affiliate of the Republican Party in Kentucky and follows its nationally established platform. The party's headquarters is in Frankfort, Kentucky.[2]
The party gained relevance around the 1940s, though Kentucky was still part of the Solid South at the time. Since this emergence, the party did poorly in state executive office elections until 2015 but saw some success on the federal level and in the Kentucky General Assembly. The party is organized into two main committees that hold authority.[3] In the 2015 Kentucky elections, the party captured the offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, and Auditor, gaining the majority of the state executive offices for the first time in modern history. In 2016, Republicans gained control of the state house for the first time since 1920.[4]
It is currently the dominant party in the state, controlling all but one of Kentucky's six U.S. House seats, both U.S. Senate seats, and has supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature. The only two statewide offices that the party does not currently control are the governorship and the lieutenant governorship, which are currently held by Democrats Andy Beshear and Jacqueline Coleman respectively. In 2022, Republicans overtook Democrats in voter registration.[5]
- ^ "Registration Statistics - State Board of Elections". elect.ky.gov. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
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- ^ "Kentucky GOP overtakes Democrats in voter registration". AP News. 2022-07-15. Retrieved 2024-01-10.