Kentucky state Sen. Robin Webb switches to Republican Party [View all]

Republicans’ supermajority in the Kentucky Senate grows a bit larger, as longtime Democratic Sen. Robin Webb announced she’s switching parties. Longtime Democratic state Sen. Robin Webb of Grayson announced Friday she is switching to the Republican Party, growing the Kentucky GOP’s supermajority in that chamber to an even wider margin.

When the Kentucky General Assembly returns to Frankfort for the 2026 session, Republicans will now have 32 senators, compared to the Democrats’ meager six.

After decades of the party hemorrhaging rural support in Kentucky, Webb was the final Democrat to represent a Senate district outside of Jefferson and Fayette counties, home of Kentucky’s two most populous cities, Louisville and Lexington.

“While it’s cliché, it’s true: I didn’t leave the party — the party left me,” Webb said in a Republican Party of Kentucky press release. “The Kentucky Democratic Party has increasingly alienated lifelong rural Democrats like myself by failing to support the issues that matter most to rural Kentuckians.”

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