Unusually high number of county judge-executives lost primary elections across Kentucky

A swath of incumbent county judge-executives lost their primary elections, some by wide margins, failing to secure their political party’s nomination Tuesday in counties both large and small stretching across Kentucky.

In all, 18 incumbent judge-executives lost in primary elections in both Democratic and Republican primaries: Adair, Bell, Boone, Breathitt, Breckinridge, Calloway, Campbell, Estill, Fulton, Green, Henderson, Knox, Laurel, Lawrence, Lee, Madison, Monroe and Morgan counties.

Kentuckians voted for local elected officials in …