Robert Stivers

Robert Stivers (Republican Party) is a member of the Kentucky State Senate, representing District 25. He assumed office in 1997. His current term ends on January 1, 2029.

Stivers (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Kentucky State Senate to represent District 25. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Stivers became the state Senate president in 2013. Before that, he served as state Senate majority leader from 2009 to 2013.

Biography

Stivers earned his B.S. in industrial management from Sue Bennett Junior College and his J.D. from the University of Kentucky. His professional experience includes working as an Assistant Commonwealth Attorney and a private practice attorney.

Committee assignments

2023-2024

Stivers was assigned to the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Committees, Chair
• Senate Education Committee
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• Senate Rules Committee, Chair
• Education Committee
• Judiciary Committee

2021-2022

Stivers was assigned to the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Committees, Chair
• Senate Education Committee
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• Senate Rules Committee, Chair

2019-2020

Stivers was assigned to the following committees:

• House Committee On Committees, Chair
• Senate Education Committee
• Senate Judiciary Committee
• Senate Rules Committee, Chair

2017 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:

2015 legislative session

At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Stivers served on the following committees:

2013-2014

At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Stivers served on the following committees:

2011-2012

In the 2011-2012 legislative session, Stivers served on the following committees:

2009-2010

In the 2009-2010 legislative session, Stivers served on the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.

Elections

2024

See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2024

General election

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Robert Stivers advanced from the Republican primary for Kentucky State Senate District 25.

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Stivers in this election.

2020

See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2020

General election

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Robert Stivers advanced from the Republican primary for Kentucky State Senate District 25.

2016

See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2016

Elections for the Kentucky State Senate took place in 2016. The primary election took place on May 17, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was January 26, 2016.

Incumbent Robert Stivers ran unopposed in the Kentucky State Senate District 25 general election.^[1][2]

Kentucky State Senate District 25, General Election, 2016
Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Robert Stivers Incumbent (unopposed)	100.00%	30,577
Total Votes	30,577
Source: Kentucky State Board of Elections

Incumbent Robert Stivers ran unopposed in the Kentucky State Senate District 25 Republican primary.^[3]

Kentucky State Senate District 25, Republican Primary, 2016
Party	Candidate
	Republican	Robert Stivers Incumbent (unopposed)

2012

See also: Kentucky State Senate elections, 2012

Stivers won re-election in the 2012 election for Kentucky State Senate District 25. He ran unopposed in the Republican primary on May 22, 2012, and defeated Ralph Hoskins (D) in the general election on November 6, 2012.^[4][5]

Party	Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Robert Stivers Incumbent	64%	21,198
	Democratic	Ralph Hoskins	36%	11,949
Total Votes	33,147

2008

On November 4, 2008, Stivers won re-election to the 25th District Seat in the Kentucky State Senate, defeating Michael "Whitey" Adkins (D).^[6] Stivers raised $176,162 for his campaign, while Adkins raised $21,200.^[7]

Kentucky State Senate, District 25 (2008)
Candidates	Votes	Percent
Robert Stivers (R)	21,459	65.2%
Michael "Whitey" Adkins (D)	11,450	34.8%

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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Robert Stivers did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.

2020

Robert Stivers did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Campaign finance summary

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2016 Republican National Convention

See also: Republican National Convention, 2016

Stivers was a delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Kentucky.^[8] In the Kentucky Republican caucuses on March 5, 2016, Donald Trump received 17 delegates, Ted Cruz received 15, and Marco Rubio and John Kasich received seven each. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Stivers was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Kentucky’s Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.^[9]

Delegate rules

See also: RNC delegate guidelines from Kentucky, 2016 and Republican delegates from Kentucky, 2016

Delegates from Kentucky to the Republican National Convention were selected by nomination committees and approved at the county and state conventions. Kentucky GOP rules required national convention delegates to have supported the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. Kentucky GOP rules and Kentucky state law required delegates from Kentucky to vote for the candidate to whom they were allocated through the first round of voting at the national convention. If a candidate died or withdrew prior to the first round of voting at the national convention, the chairman of the Kentucky delegation was to call a meeting at which the delegates were to vote on the remaining candidates and be reallocated on the basis of the results.

Kentucky caucus results

See also: Presidential election in Kentucky, 2016

Kentucky Republican Caucus, 2016
Candidate	Vote %	Votes	Delegates
Donald Trump	35.9%	82,493	17
Ted Cruz	31.6%	72,503	15
Marco Rubio	16.4%	37,579	7
John Kasich	14.4%	33,134	7
Ben Carson	0.8%	1,951	0
Rand Paul	0.4%	872	0
Other	0.2%	496	0
Jeb Bush	0.1%	305	0
Mike Huckabee	0.1%	174	0
Chris Christie	0%	65	0
Carly Fiorina	0%	64	0
Rick Santorum	0%	31	0
Totals	229,667	46
Source: The New York Times and Republican Party of Kentucky

Delegate allocation

See also: 2016 presidential nominations: calendar and delegate rules

Kentucky had 46 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 18 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's six congressional districts). District delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any district delegates.^[10][11]

Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. At-large delegates were allocated proportionally; a candidate had to win at least 5 percent of the statewide caucus vote in order to be eligible to receive any of the state's at-large delegates. In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention. The RNC delegates were allocated in the same manner as the at-large delegates.^[10][11][12]

Scorecards

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