2026 Primary Voter Guide

WKMS provides readers and listeners with coverage of a competitive Kentucky House race and contested judge-executive races in four counties around western Kentucky.

Three candidates are facing off in this month’s Republican primary to be the next leader of Crittenden County.

The race for Kentucky’s 2nd House District will see incumbent GOP state Rep. Kim Holloway take on Richard Heath – who held the office for more than a decade before she narrowly beat him out for the nomination in the 2024 Republican primary – and a newcomer to state politics in longtime Mayfield City Council member Nate Cox.

The race for the McCracken County judge-executive seat features a contested Republican primary election in May, with the winner likely facing current Paducah Mayor George Bray – who filed to run for the county office as an independent this spring – in the general election.

The Republican primary in Calloway County’s judge-executive race has the incumbent facing off against a fellow member of the county’s fiscal court.

Three Republican candidates are running to be the next judge-executive in Graves County.