How did Elliot County vote
59% Yes
Honestly less than I would have expected. There is an interesting echo of the old divide in SE Kentucky between the traditionally Democratic and traditionally Republican areas, too.
IDK, my overall impression is that the amendment did "well enough" in Eastern KY (generally >60% Yes even in the ancestral Dem coalfields) but underperformed more dramatically elsewhere.
A similar amendment passed narrowly in WV back in 2018 (you could argue it was all theoretical back then, but IDK with Kavanaugh having just been confirmed). Interestingly, the KY pro-life amendment did better in Eastern KY than the WV amendment did in Southern WV. There just weren't any large cities to vote it down in WV.
The Tennessee pro-life amendment back in 2014 massively underperformed in the eastern mountains but still generally passed. The big difference from KY 2022 was that it passed in all the Nashville suburbs counties.
The 2020 Louisiana pro-life amendment was in its own world where the pro-life vote clearly exceeds the generic Republican vote. Over 60% yes just about everywhere but downtown NOLA and Baton Rouge and over 70% in most of the rural counties.
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