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The votes are in. 

The county has 43,308 voters, and 26,009 ballots were cast and counted as of 10 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, giving the 35-precinct county a 62.36 percent turnout. 

The City of Nicholasville’s elected city commissioners are the four Incumbents Pete Sutherland with 5,394 votes, Bethany Davis Brown with 5,378 votes, Patty Grose Teater with 5,005 votes, and Charles “Dexter” Knight with 4,945 votes. 

Betty Black received 3,717 votes, Johnny Templin received 3,450 votes, and Ronnie Rothwell received 2,516 votes. 

Wilmore voters had their say, voting for five incumbents and a former city clerk. Sharon Moore won most of the votes with 1,497 received. Incumbents re-elected were Wes Metcalfe with 1,450 votes, David R. Riel with 1,328 votes, Jim Brumfield with 1,299 votes, Andy Bathje with 1,266 votes, and Leonard Fitch 1,222. Incumbent Kim Deyer received 1,188 votes and was therefore not re-elected.

The Jessamine County Board of Education’s Incumbents were all victorious last night, with Roberty “Bobby” Welch winning the majority with 1,981 votes in the 1st Educational District. His opponent, Rosanna Lee Crusott received 1,354 votes. 

In the second district, incumbent Amy Day is reelected after receiving 2,060 votes. Her opponent, Sandi Corman, received 1,654 votes. 

In the 3rd district, Incumbent Debra Locker Hood is reelected after receiving 1,331 votes. Opponents Rachel Baker and Anthony Robert Turner received 1,044 and 852, respectively. 

Board of Education Chair Steven Scrivner told the journal in response to these results, “I’m thrilled voters in districts 1, 2, and 3 chose to send back to the school board three people who have a proven record of advocating for our students, teachers, and families, and who actually support public education. Them choosing past performance over partisan politics is a great thing for our community.” 

Jessamine County Circuit Court Clerk Doug Fain was reelected with 16,948 votes. The race was uncontested. 

The Commonwealth’s Attorney in the 13th Judicial Circuit was also reelected in an uncontested race. Incumbent Rep. Andy Sims received 20,382 votes in the county. He received 27,710 votes statewide.

State election results

In Jessamine County, 39th Representative District State Representative Incumbent Rep. Matt Lockett received a majority of the vote, with 9,085 votes. Opponent Dem. Ryan Stanford received 4,794 votes. Matt Lockett also received 12,610 votes, 60 percent of all Kentucky votes, winning reelection to his seat. Stanford received 8,513 votes statewide. 

Jessamine Countians voted to reelect 55th District State Representative Rep. Kim King. She received 3,155 votes. Dem. Katrina A Sexton received 1,260 votes. Statewide, King won reelection with 16,382 votes. Sexton received 5,922 votes.

56th District State Representative Incumbent Rep. Daniel A Fister received 3,031 votes in Jessamine County, and 13,863 votes statewide– winning reelection. Dem. Chantel Bingham only received 1,284 votes in Jessamine County, but 10,269 votes statewide, which made it a tighter race on the state level. 

Jessamine County voters and voters statewide voted overwhelmingly to elect Pamela R. Goodwine as a Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court. She received 13,606 votes in the county and 180,755 votes altogether across the state. Her opponent Erin Izzo received 6,023 votes in the county and 54,592 votes statewide. 

Jessamine County and Kentucky as a whole passed Constitutional Amendment 1, which bans noncitizens from voting in elections, which is already prohibited in State Law in language that states voters must be a “citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years,” as well as federal law. The measure received 16,363 yes votes in the county, and 8,804 no votes, and statewide received 1,208,218 yes votes, and 727,239 no votes. 

Constitutional Amendment 2, which would provide public funding and support to private schools, did not pass in Jessamine County and Kentucky. 15,530 Jessamine County voters voted no on Amendment 2, and 10,748 voted yes. Statewide, 1,298,333 people voted no on Amendment 2, and 706,591 voted yes. 

National election results 

In Jessamine County, Rep. Donald J. Trump received 17,854 votes. Dem. Kamala Harris received 8,303 votes. Robert F. Kennedy received 238 votes. Jill Stein received 131 votes, and Chase Oliver received 105 votes. Statewide, Trump received 65 percent of the vote with 1,335,516 votes. Harris received 700,606 votes, 34 percent of the Kentucky vote. Kennedy received 1 percent of Kentucky votes. Kentucky’s Electoral College has a winner-take-all system, so even though Harris received 34 percent of the Kentucky vote, all 8 electors were awarded to Donald Trump. The former president has been elected after a four-year break from office, receiving 277 electoral votes, (270 is needed to win), and 51 percent of the popular vote. His opponent, Vice President Harris, received 224 electoral college votes, and 47.5 percent of the popular vote. 

6th Congressional District United States Representative Incumbent Rep. Andy Barr was reelected, receiving 19,419 votes in Jessamine County, and 220,881 votes statewide. Dem. Randy Cravens received 7,120 votes in Jessamine County, and 127,535 votes statewide.