Beech Tree News Network

Local voters were in line with broader results from last week's General Election that featured two constitutional amendments, a local cannabis question, and a much-anticipated presidential showdown.

At the top of the ticket, Butler County voters gave Republican candidate and former President Donald J. Trump a resounding victory.  The Trump/Vance slate received 4,905 votes (83 percent), while the Democratic ticket of Vice-President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz got 965 votes (16 percent).  Trump won handily across Kentucky, won 312 electoral votes, as well as a 3 percentage point margin in the popular vote.

In Kentucky, two constitutional amendments were on the ballot.

Amendment #1 was approved by Butler County voters by a vote of 3,530 (64 percent) to 1,965 (36 percent).  The amendment placed in the Kentucky Constitution a citizenship requirement before someone can vote in an election in the state.  It passed overwhelmingly across the state.

Local voters rejected Amendment #2, which would have amended the Kentucky Constitution to permit tax dollars to fund students in schools outside of the state's "common" (public) schools.  In Butler County, voters rejected this amendment by a significant margin - 3,919 to 1,762 - or 69 percent NO and 31 percent YES.  Amendment #2 was defeated statewide by a large margin as well.

Butler County voters also approved a ballot question that allowed for the sale of medical cannabis and other cannabis-related businesses in the county.  That measure passed by a margin of 61 percent to 39 percent.  The YES votes were 3,439, while the NO votes were 2,207.  Every community in Kentucky that had a medical cannabis question on the ballot approved it.