Your Government: A Citizen’s Guide

This is the start of a major project to present to our read­ers a com­pre­hen­sive guide to your local gov­ern­ment in Winchester and Clark County. Watch as we grow this sec­tion over the com­ing months. 

2026 City, County, and State Candidate and Election Information

These info­graph­ics are a quick guide to the city, coun­ty, and state elect­ed offi­cials who serve Clark County, as well as the 2026 pri­ma­ry elec­tions, which will take place in May. All of the graph­ics were cre­at­ed by our con­trib­u­tor Tiffany Horn. (Click on each info­graph­ic to enlarge and open the light­box gallery.) 

Voter information

The 2026 Primary Election is on May 19, 2026. (For ear­ly vot­ing dates, see the Kentucky elec­tion cycle link under the “Need more infor­ma­tion” head­ing.) The dead­line to reg­is­ter to vote in the 2026 Primary Election is April 20, 2026, no lat­er than 4:00 PM local time. Kentucky con­ducts closed pri­maries. Under Kentucky law, all per­sons who want to vote in the Democratic Party’s or Republican Party’s Primary Election must have changed their par­ty affil­i­a­tion by December 31 of the year pri­or to the next Primary Election.

You may reg­is­ter to vote in Kentucky as a 17-year-old if you will be 18 years old by the next General Election, which will be November 3, 2026.

• Listing of all elect­ed offi­cials (city, coun­ty, state, and fed­er­al) who rep­re­sent Clark County.
• You can find sam­ple bal­lots, infor­ma­tion about how to reg­is­ter or change your vot­er reg­is­tra­tion, absen­tee bal­lot requests, and more in the Kentucky Voter Information Portal.
• Key dates in the 2026 Kentucky elec­tion cycle can be found here.
• Who’s run­ning for what? A com­plete list of all can­di­dates who will be on the May bal­lot in Winchester and Clark County.