Below is a summary of the results, as of this evening. It is important to note that due to the additional absentee balloting procedures put in place for this election, official results may be delayed for several days. So the results we are sharing are based on unofficial results available as of this writing.
KY Election Results
Republicans had overwhelming victories this evening in Kentucky. President Trump carried the state and US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell easily defeated challenger Amy McGrath. Republicans also had a big night in state legislative races reaching a record number in the House and Senate Majorities. Support at the top of the ticket clearly carried down the ballot and impacted state legislative races.
State Senate 19 of the 38 seats were up this cycle - New Margin: 30-8 in favor of GOP. Senate Republicans appear to have picked up 2 seats as of this writing. The Turner vs Turner battle has Democrat incumbent and member of the minority leadership team, Sen. Johnny Ray Turner down 2000 votes with 96% of the vote counted.
GOP Flips
District 7 - Southworth (Open-Carroll)
District 29 - Johnnie Turner (R) leads Johnny Ray Turner (D - incumbent)*
Other New Faces
District 1 - Howell (R-Murray from Humphries)
District 21 - Storm (R-London from Robinson)
District 26 - Berg (D-Oldham from Harris in special election in June)
District 37 - Yates (D-Louisville from P.Clark)
State House - All 100 members were up this cycle - New Margin: Appears to be 75-25 in favor of GOP, but one race has incomplete results, so it could be as low as 74-26. Regardless, a big night for the House Republicans picking up 12 or 13 seats. It will be a big Freshman class with possibly 22 new members.
Incomplete Results
District 10 - Calloway(R) leads incumbent Schamore (D) by nearly 1000 votes with 94% of votes counted
GOP flips
District 11 - Dixon (Wiederstein)
District 13 - Johnson (Glenn)
District 22 - McPherson (Open-Stone)
District 39 - Lockett (Open-Meyer)
District 47 - Rabourn (Open-Rand)
District 48 - Fleming (Sorolis)
District 56 - Fister - (Open-Graviss)
District 70 - Lawrence - (Open-Sims)
District 91 - Wesley - (Open-Howard)
District 93 - Kirk-McCormick (Open-Harris)
District 96 - Flannery (Hinkle)
District 100 - Sharp - (Clark)
Other New Faces
District 5 - Imes (R-Murray Open-Elkins)
District 43 - Stevenson (D-Louisville Open Booker)
District 45 - Timoney - (R-Lexington Open Lee)
District 58 - Decker (R-Shelbyville Open Rothenburger)
District 71 - Bray (R-Mt.Vernon from Travis),
District 73 - Dotson (R-Winchester from Yates)
District 83 - Branscum (R-Jamestown from Hoover)
District 85 - Baker (R-Somerset from Turner)
District 86 - Smith (R-Corbin from Stewart)
Congressional Races
In addition to Senator McConnell winning his 7th term in the U.S. Senate, all of Kentucky's incumbent U.S. House members were victorious.
1st District - Comer defeats Rhodes
2nd District - Guthrie defeats Linderman
3rd District - Yarmuth defeats Palazzo
4th District - Massie defeats Owensby
5th District - Rogers defeats Best
6th District - Barr defeats Hicks
State Supreme Court
There was one Supreme Court seat up for election in the 7th District in the Eastern part of the state. The incumbent was defeated in the primary, having come in 3rd in a three way race. Tonight Greenup County Circuit Judge Robert Conley appears to have defeated former State Rep. Chris Harris by a 55-45 vote margin with 93% of the votes counted.
Constitutional Amendments
There were two proposed amendments to Kentucky's Constitution on the ballot.
Constitutional Amendment #1 - Marsy's Law, which passed two years ago but was struck down by the Kentucky Supreme Court due to vague ballot language has been passed by the voters of Kentucky for the second time, following this evening's results.
Constitutional Amendment #2 - A ballot initiative to increase office terms for Kentucky's district judges as well as increase years of experience required for those judicial positions. Constitutional Amendment #2 was not approved by voters and failed.
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