[2] However, this metric obscures the fact that a large number of registered Democrats in the commonwealth now routinely vote Republican.

A member is anyone who is registered as a Democrat in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and states that no discrimination will take part in anyone wishing to join the party.

Governing of the Kentucky Democratic Party articulates that proxy votes are not permitted and unit rules are forbidden.

The organization aims to take strong stances against forcing members to vote a certain way, but instead endorses all candidates which meet their ideological structure most effectively.

[5] John C. Breckinridge served as the 14th Vice President (1857–1861) and a notable figure in the early Democratic Party of Kentucky.

Although Breckinridge claimed that he was not an anti-Union demonstrator during the civil war, he strongly supported states' rights to allow slavery and would go on to be an officer in the Confederate Army.

[6] Kentucky Democrat Alben W. Barkley served under Franklin D. Roosevelt as the U.S. vice president from 1949 to 1953, and began his political career in the state as a county judge.

He would later be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the Senate, advocating strongly for Woodrow Wilson's liberal policies, and alter those of the Roosevelt Administration as well.

Congressman Scotty Baesler ran as the Democratic nominee in the 1998 election and was subsequently defeated by Republican challenger Jim Bunning.