# Libertarian Party of Kentucky

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky is the Kentucky affiliate of the Libertarian Party. The current state chair is Randall Daniel.

## Background

The Libertarian Party of Kentucky, referred to as "LPKY", is the official state affiliate of the Libertarian Party (United States). The purpose of the Party is to promote libertarianism and elect candidates to office. The Kentucky affiliate has existed since 1974, and is the third-largest political party in Kentucky. Since the Kentucky Secretary of State's office officially began asking county clerks to track the number of Libertarian voter registrations in 2006, via 31 KAR 4:150 Archived September 11, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. As of November 11, 2020, 13,619 Kentucky citizens have registered Libertarian according to the Kentucky Secretary of State voter registration statistics.
After the election of 2020, and prior to 2016, the Libertarian Party of Kentucky was considered a "political group". An unpublished 2008 Kentucky Court of Appeals case stated that political groups are treated as Independents, as no other mechanism would exist for those groups to have their candidates placed on the ballot. Both Independents and political groups do not have automatic ballot access, meaning they must collect signatures on a petition for candidates that wish to run for office. Kentucky's ballot access rules require a different minimum number of signatures based on the office being sought, ranging between 25 and 5,000.
As a result of the 2016 general election results for president in Kentucky, the Libertarian Party was considered, under Kentucky Revised Statutes 118.015, to be a political organization for the years 2017 through 2020. Political organizations are those whose candidate for president received at least 2%, but less than 20%, of the popular vote in the state of Kentucky in the last general election. A "political organization", the second tier in a three-tier system, grants that party ballot access, but denies them a state-operated primary. The presidential race is the only metric used for ballot access in Kentucky, and there is no mechanism for a party to petition for access in Kentucky.

## State Executive Committee

LPKY Website
* Chairman – Charles Altendorf
* Vice Chairman – Bethany Extine
* Secretary – Amanda Billings
* Treasurer – Robert Lodder

## Partisan elections – Candidates

Candidates for partisan offices that wish to run as a Libertarian are nominated at a nomination convention, which can be, and historically has been, held in conjunction with the state party annual convention. A vote of registered Libertarians at convention determines who the candidate will be. All candidates must also defeat NOTA (None of the Above) in order to obtain the ability to run as a Libertarian. The LPKY State Party Executive Committee can vote to add additional candidates after the convention.

## Past candidates
### 2020 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2020
* US President: Jo Jorgensen, 26,234 (1.2%) – five-way race
* US Senate: Brad Barron, 85,386 (4.0%) – three-way race
* US House, 2nd District: Robert Perry, 7,588 votes (2.1%) – four-way race
* US House, 6th District: Frank Harris, 6,491 votes (1.7%) – three-way race
* KY Senate, 3rd District: Amanda Billings, 8,157 votes (21.6%) – two-way race
* KY Senate, 5th District: Guy Miller, 3,781 votes (7.2%) – three-way race
* KY Senate, 27th District: Bryan Short, 8,989 votes (18.9%) – two-way race
* KY House, 2nd District: Joshua Gilpin, 3,118 votes (16.8%) – two-way race
* KY House, 23rd District: Tim Filback, 354 votes (1.8%) – three-way race
* KY House, 26th District: Randall Daniel, 3,813 votes (19.7%) – two-way race
* KY House, 49th District: Mitch Rushing, 639 votes (2.9%) – three-way race
* KY House, 66th District: Cristi Kendrick, 1,341 votes (5.2%) – three-way race
* KY House, 69th District: Bill Mitchell, 884 votes (4.5%) – three-way race
* KY House, 78th District: James Toller, 2,922 votes (16.9%) – two-way race

### 2019 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2019
* Governor / Lieutenant Governor: John Hicks / Ann Cormican, 28,433 (2.0%) – three-way race
* Auditor of Public Accounts: Kyle Hugenberg, 46,563 (3.3%) – three-way race
* Commissioner of Agriculture: Joshua Gilpin, 44,596 (3.2%) – three-way race
* Boone County Clerk (special election to fill vacancy): J. Kyle Sweeney, 1,639 (4.1%) – three-way race

### 2018 partisan election results

* US House, 3rd District: Gregory Boles, 3,788 (1.4%) – three-way race
* US House, 6th District: Frank Harris, 2,150 (0.7%) – five-way race
* KY House, 43rd District: John Hicks, 319 (2.3%) – three-way race
* KY House, 66th District: A J "Lex" Hannan, 328 (2.0%) – three-way race
* KY House, 72nd District: Ann Cormican, 260 (1.6%) – three-way race
* Boone County Constable #2: J Kyle Sweeney, 3,049 (20.5%)
* Boyd County Magistrate: Cory Fitzpatrick, 7 (100%) – unopposed
* Graves County Magistrate #2: Shane Walker, 1,868 (100%) – unopposed
* Greenup County Commissioner #1: Race Nichols, 274 (2.1%) – three-way race
* Mason County Magistrate #3: Trevor Applegate, 836 (100%) – unopposed
* Meade County Constable #4: Joseph Redmon, 452 (28.8%)
* Montgomery County Magistrate #2: Shannon Denniston, 1,890 (100%) – unopposed

### 2016 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2016
* US President: Gary Johnson, 53,749 (2.8%) – five-way race
* KY House, 6th District: David Watson, 972 (4.5%) – three-way race
* Jefferson County Commissioner, District B: Mitch Rushing (100%) – unopposed

### 2015 partisan election results

No candidates due to signature requirements.

### 2014 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2014
* US Senate: David Patterson, 44,240 votes (3.1%)
* Boone County Judge/Executive: J. Kyle Sweeney, 6,766 (22.;0%)
* Boone Co Commissioner #1: Josh Brotherton, 6,632 (22.4%)
* Boone Co Commissioner #2: Cristi Kendrick, 3,656 (11.2%) – three-way race
* Boone Co Commissioner #3: James Bozman, 5,986 (20.3%)
* Hardin Co Constable #5: Joseph Redmon, 316 (12.9%) – three-way race
* Kenton Co Clerk: Chris Robinson, 6,673 (16.3%)
* Marshall Co Magistrate #2: Tracey Roberts, (100%) – unopposed
* Montgomery Co Magistrate #3: Shannon Denniston, (100%) – unopposed
* Warren Co Constable #2: Chris Dillingham, 561 (38.6%) – listed on ballot incorrectly

### 2013 partisan election results

No regularly-scheduled elections in Kentucky in 2013.

### 2012 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2012
* President: Gary Johnson, 17,062 votes (1.0%) – five-way race
* US House, 2nd District: Craig Astor, 4,914 votes (1.7%) – four-way race
* Hillview City Council: Harlen Compton, 632 votes (9th of 9)

### 2011 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2011
* Kentucky State Treasurer Ken Moellman, 37,261 votes (4.6%) – three-way race

### 2010 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2010
* US House, 3rd District: Ed Martin, 2,029 votes (0.8%) – four-way race
* KY House, 32nd District: Matthew Linker, 492 votes (2.8%) – three-way race
* KY House, 43rd District: George Conrad Dick, 1,867 votes (17.7%) – two-way race
* Boone County Magistrate, 1st District: Eric Cranley
* Jefferson County Constable, 2nd District: Thomas Yoder

### 2009 partisan election results (special)

2009 Special Election Results
* KY Senate, 18th District: Guy E. Gibbons Jr. (party endorsed Independent), 953 votes (5.3%) – three-way race

### 2008 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2008
* President: Bob Barr, 5,989 votes (0.3%)
* US House, 3rd District: Edward Martin, removed from the ballot by court order
* KY House, 81st District: J. Lance Combs, 2,754 votes (18.5%) – two-way race

### 2007 partisan election results

Kentucky state Executive Branch elections. No candidates due to signature requirements.

### 2006 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2006
* US House, 3rd District: Donna Walker Mancini, 2,139 votes (0.9%) – four-way race
* US House, 4th District: Brian Houillion, 10,100 votes (4.9%) – three-way race
* US House, 6th District: Paul Ard, 27,015 votes (14.5%) – two-way race

### 2004 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2004
* US President: Michael Badnarik, 2,619 votes (0.1%)
* US House, 3rd District: George Conrad Dick, 6,363 votes (1.9%)
* US House, 6th District: Mark Gailey, 1,758 votes (0.6%)

### 2003 partisan election results

Kentucky state Executive Branch elections. No candidates due to signature requirements.

### 2002 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2002
* US House, 2nd District: Robert Guy Dyer, 2,084 votes (1.2%)
* US House, 4th District: John Grote, 2,308 votes (1.3%)
* US House, 6th District: Mark Gailey, 3,313 votes (2.1%)

### 2000 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 2000
* US President: Harry Browne, 2,896 votes (0.2%)
* US House, 2nd District: Michael A. Kirkman, 2,125 votes (0.9%)
* US House, 3rd District: Donna Walker Mancini, 7,804 votes (2.9%)
* US House, 4th District: Alan Handleman, 1,486 votes (0.6%)
* US House, 6th District: Joseph Novak, 1,229 votes (0.5%)
* KY Senate, 19th District: Nick Karem, 1,029 votes (2.3%)
* KY House, 36th District: Mark Gailey, 832 votes (7.6%)

### 1996 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 1996
* US President: Harry Browne, 4,009 votes (0.5%) – six-way race
* US Senate: Dennis L. Lacy, 8,595 votes (0.7%) – five-way race

### 1992 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 1992
* US President: Andre Marrou, 4,513 votes (0.3%) – seven-way race
* US Senate: James A. Ridenour, 17,366 votes (1.3%) – three-way race

### 1988 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 1988
* US President: Ron Paul, 2,118 votes (0.2%) – five-way race

### 1984 partisan election results

No Libertarian Presidential Candidate in 1984 on Kentucky ballot.

### 1982 partisan election results

Kentucky Board of Elections official results, 1982
* US House, 3rd District: Dan Murray, 608 votes (0.4%)
* US House, 4th District: Paul Thiel, 706 votes (0.5%)
* US House, 6th District: Ken Ashby, 1,185 votes (1.0%)

### 1980 partisan election results

* US President: Ed Clark, 5,531 votes (0.4%) – five-way race