Kentucky US presidential election results 2024

Voters in Kentucky have gone to the ballot box in the.

A total of 8 electoral college votes will be given to the winner of the state - with both and looking to reach the magic number of 270 across the nation to secure the presidency.

Last time in 2020, Kentucky backed Trump over . He secured 62% of all votes in the state.

The US presidential election took a dramatic turn in July this year when current president Biden dropped out of the race following a disastrous TV debate performance a few weeks earlier. His campaign was effectively transferred to Vice President Harris, who replaced him as the Democratic party candidate.

In the same month, Donald Trump was shot at an open-air rally in Pennsylvania by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. The bullet, fired from the roof of a disused building nearby, punctured Trump's ear and narrowly missed his head before Crooks was himself shot dead by secret service agents. One person in the crowd also died and two people were left critically injured.

In September, Trump survived a second alleged assassination attempt while golfing at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida. Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested after he was spotted lurking in bushes outside the course with a rifle.

Polls in Kentucky opened at 6am local time on Tuesday and will close at 6pm. Results are expected in the early hours of Wednesday.

You can see all the results for the state in the interactive widget and map below, which will update once the count has been declared. Find out who won the state and how many votes each candidate received.