During Monday night’s Trigg County Fiscal Court meeting, Clerk Carmen Finley had one word to describe the recently-finished 2026 May Primary election.
“Humdinger.”
The reason, she said, was because of a 30% voter turnout rate — more than three times the last such primary in the community.
For Trigg County, Finley said 30% equates to 3,445 people, which she then broke down both demographically, and when people turned in ballots — painting a picture of how early and day-of voting worked in, and around, Cadiz.
Absentee/mail-in was 73 ballots, absentee/walk-in was 14 ballots, and early voting was 962 ballots, with Tuesday, May 19, had 2,396 ballots.
The highest age group of voters, she added, were 65-and-over at 43%, followed by ages 50-to-64 at 30%. Ages 35-to-49 was at 15% and ages 18-to-34 at 10%.
The ballot, she reminded, was Republican or Democrat only because it was a primary, and Kentucky is one of several states that does not allow Independents to vote in primaries leading up to November general elections.
Driven by a long-debated Republican sheriff’s race and several Republican magisterial seats up for bid, Republicans cast 2,539 votes, or 75.6% of all ballots cast, while 818 Democrats had options in state and federal races, serving as the remaining 24.4%.
Next up, she said, is a general election.
Ballot positions for November will be drawn at 2 PM Thursday in the Trigg County Clerk’s Office.
In other Trigg County Fiscal Court news:
+ Magistrate Cameron Sumner offered further clarification about his recent data center comments, in which he simply advised that Trigg County and its leaders need to be prepared for the possibility of zoning/business questions that may come in the future.
Magistrate Mike Lane said he, too, fielded several calls about Sumner’s recent statements, as did Finley and others about the possibility.
Judge-Executive Stan Humphries said there is “no inside information” about any data centers potentially arriving in Trigg County.
But as he, and many others, have noted over the last half-decade, Trigg County has — aside from subdivisions and the growing I-24 Business Park — minimal zoning requirements beyond the Cadiz city limits.
Sumner doubled down further.
Following Sumner’s previous statements, several Trigg County residents took to social media, voicing their displeasure about the mere possibility of a data center’s arrival in the area.
