Kentucky's 2nd congressional district

Kentucky's 2nd congressional district
Kentucky's 2nd congressional district
	Kentucky's 2nd congressional district - since January 3, 2013.
Representative
	Brett Guthrie; R–Bowling Green
Distribution	50.23% rural; 49.77% urban;
Population (2019)	774,897
Median household; income	$53,496
Ethnicity	89.03% White; 5.84% Black; 3.17% Hispanic; 1.46% Asian; 0.38% Native American;
Cook PVI	R+19

Kentucky's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kentucky. The district is in the middle part of the state. The cities in the district are Bowling Green, Owensboro, and Elizabethtown. The people who live in the district elect a person to represent the district in the United States House of Representatives. The district is currently represented by Republican Brett Guthrie. In the district no incumbent representative has lost an election since 1884.

Election history

2002 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election)
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ron Lewis (Incumbent)	122,773	69.64%
	Democratic	David Lynn Williams	51,431	29.17%
	Libertarian	Robert Guy Dyer	2,084	1.18%
Total votes			176,288	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2004 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ron Lewis (Incumbent)	185,394	67.92%
	Democratic	Adam Smith	87,585	32.08%
Total votes			272,979	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2006 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Ron Lewis (Incumbent)	118,548	55.41%
	Democratic	Mike Weaver	95,415	44.59%
Total votes			213,963	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2008 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie	158,936	52.57%
	Democratic	David E. Boswell	143,379	47.43%
Total votes			302,315	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2010 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie (Incumbent)	155,906	67.89%
	Democratic	Ed Marksberry	73,749	28.75%
Total votes			229,655	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2012 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie (Incumbent)	181,508	64.30%
	Democratic	David Lynn Williams	89,541	31.72%
	Independent	Andrew R. Beacham	6,304	2.23%
	Libertarian	Craig Astor	4,914	1.74%
Total votes			282,267	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2014 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie (Incumbent)	156,936	69.19%
	Democratic	Ron Leach	69,898	30.81%
Total votes			226,834	100.00%
Turnout
	Republican hold

2018 Kentucky's 2nd congressional district election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie (Incumbent)	171,700	66.7%
	Democratic	Hank Linderman	79,964	31.1%
	Independent	Thomas Loecken	5,681	2.2%
Total votes			257,345	100.0%
	Republican hold

2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Brett Guthrie (incumbent)	255,735	70.9
	Democratic	Hank Linderman	94,643	26.3
	Libertarian	Robert Lee Perry	7,588	2.1
	Populist	Lewis Carter	2,431	0.7
	Write-in		2	0.0
Total votes			360,399	100.0
	Republican hold

↑ Geography, US Census Bureau. "Congressional Districts Relationship Files (state-based)". www.census.gov. Archived from the original on 2017-07-17. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
↑ Bureau, Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
↑ Center for New Media & Promotion (CNMP), US Census Bureau. "My Congressional District". www.census.gov.
↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.