Cities in Kentucky

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Ballotpedia provides comprehensive coverage of elections in the 100 largest cities in America by population and the largest counties that overlap those cities. This encompasses all city, county, judicial, school district, and special district offices appearing on the ballot within those cities. Ballotpedia also covers mayors, city councils, and district attorneys in all state capitals.

This page includes the following resources:

* The city governments covered by Ballotpedia in Kentucky
* An overview of local elections in Kentucky
* An overview of the initiative process in Kentucky

## Contents

* 1 Cities
* 1.1 City government
* 2 Elections
* 2.1 2026
* 2.2 2025
* 2.3 2024
* 2.4 2023
* 2.5 2022
* 2.6 2021
* 2.7 2020
* 2.8 2019
* 2.9 2018
* 2.10 2017
* 2.11 2016
* 2.12 2015
* 3 Initiative process availability
* 4 See also
* 5 External links
* 6 Footnotes

## Cities[edit]

### City government[edit]

Click the links in the table below for information about the cities in Ballotpedia's coverage scope and the county governments that overlap those cities:

City | County

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Frankfort | Franklin County
Lexington | Fayette County
Louisville | Jefferson County

According to a 2022 study from the U.S. Census Bureau, this state's local governments consist of 118 counties, 417 cities, towns, and villages, and 601 special districts.[1]

Cities and Counties also have the option of consolidating governments under one of the forms provided by state law. Louisville-Jefferson operates as a consolidated local government under Kentucky Revised Statute 67C. Lexington-Fayette operates as an urban county government under Kentucky Revised Statute 67A and the local charter created during the merger process.

## Elections[edit]

Click the links below for information about the elections held in each municipality. Please note that this is not a comprehensive list of municipalities that held elections each year in this state; click here to learn more about Ballotpedia's local government coverage scope.

### 2026[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2026 and School board elections, 2026

* Frankfort, Kentucky \- County attorney and board of commissioners
* Lexington, Kentucky \- Mayor, county executive, county attorney, county clerk, county coroner, county property valuation administrator, county sheriff, county surveyor, city council, county commissioners, county constables, soil and water conservation district board, and magistrate judges
* Louisville, Kentucky \- Mayor, county attorney, county clerk, county coroner, county executive, county property valuation administrator, county sheriff, county surveyor, metro council, county commission, county constables, and soil and water conservation district board
* All local elections by county

### 2025[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2025 and School board elections, 2025

* All local elections by county

### 2024[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2024 and School board elections, 2024

* Frankfort, Kentucky \- Mayor, commonwealth's attorney, and city council
* Lexington, Kentucky \- Commonwealth’s attorney, circuit clerk, city council, and soil and water board
* Louisville, Kentucky \- Commonwealth’s attorney, circuit court clerk, metro council, county commission, soil and water board, and family court judge
* All other local elections by county
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2023[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2023 and School board elections, 2023

* Lexington, Kentucky \- County clerk and commonwealth's attorney
* Louisville, Kentucky \- City council, county commonwealth's attorney, county family court judge (special)
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2022[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2022 and School board elections, 2022

* Frankfort, Kentucky \- City council and county attorney
* Lexington, Kentucky \- Mayor, urban county council, coroner, county attorney, county clerk, county judge/executive, county surveyor, sheriff, property valuation administrator, county commission, constables, magistrates, soil & water conservation district, district court judges, and circuit court judges
* Louisville, Kentucky \- Mayor, metro council, coroner, county attorney, county clerk, county judge/executive, county commission, jailer, property valuation administrator, sheriff, surveyor, constables, county soil & water district, circuit court judges, circuit family court judges, district court judges, and justices of the peace
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2021[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2021 and School board elections, 2021

Ballotpedia did not cover any local elections in Kentucky that year.

### 2020[edit]

See also: United States municipal elections, 2020 and School board elections, 2020

* Lexington, Kentucky \- Urban council districts, soil and water supervisors
* Louisville, Kentucky \- Metro councilors, county commissioners, soil and water conservation supervisors, county surveyor (unexpired term), and family court judge of the 30th circuit court, seat 3 (unexpired term)
* Kentucky school board elections

Past elections

### 2019

See also: United States municipal elections, 2019 and School board elections, 2019

* Fayette County, Kentucky \- Circuit court judge
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2018

See also: United States municipal elections, 2018 and School board elections, 2018

* Lexington, Kentucky \- Mayor, county commission, commonwealth's attorney, circuit court clerk, county judge/executive, county attorney, county clerk, county sheriff, coroner, property valuation administrator, city council, constables, local judgeships
* Louisville, Kentucky \- Mayor, county commission, commonwealth's attorney, circuit court clerk, county judge/executive, county attorney, county clerk, county sheriff, coroner, property valuation administrator, city council, constables, local judgeships, special district board members
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2017

See also: United States municipal elections, 2017 and School board elections, 2017

Ballotpedia did not cover any local elections in Kentucky that year.

### 2016

See also: United States municipal elections, 2016 and School board elections, 2016

* Lexington, Kentucky
* Louisville, Kentucky
* Kentucky school board elections

### 2015

See also: United States municipal elections, 2015 and School board elections, 2015
Ballotpedia did not cover any local elections in Kentucky that year.

## Initiative process availability[edit]

See also: Laws governing local ballot measures in Kentucky

An initiative process is not mentioned explicitly, but seems to be prohibited by Kentucky Revised Statute Section 83A.120 below. The process for referendum is allowed, but is restricted to the limited issues which are established in Section 60 of the Constitution below.[2]

## See also[edit]

Kentucky | Municipal government | Other local coverage

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* Kentucky
* Kentucky elections, 2026
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## External links[edit]

* Search Google News for this topic
* Kentucky municipal code library
* Kentucky state government website

## Footnotes[edit]

1. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau, "2022 Census of Governments – Organization," accessed October 16, 2023
2. ↑ Ballotpedia, "Types & #s of local government by state," September 2012

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