Kentucky U.S. Senate election history

Every Kentucky U.S. Senate election from 1978 to 2022: winners, parties, margins and the seats that changed hands.

Current senators

Kentucky Senate races: Republican minus Democratic share, in points. Bars above the line lean Republican, below lean Democratic.

Year	Seat	Winner	Party	Runner-up	Margin	Votes
2022	Class III	Rand Paul	Republican	Charles Booker	23.6	1,477,830
2020	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Amy McGrath	19.5	2,135,057
2016	Class III	Rand Paul	Republican	Jim Gray	14.6	1,903,465
2014	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Alison Lundergan Grimes	15.5	1,435,868
2010	Class III	Rand Paul	Republican	Jack Conway	11.5	1,356,096
2008	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Bruce Lunsford	5.9	1,800,821
2004	Class III	Jim Bunning	Republican	Daniel Mongiardo	1.3	1,724,362
2002	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Lois Combs Weinberg	29.4	1,131,313
1998 flip	Class III	Jim Bunning	Republican	Scotty Baesler	0.6	1,145,414
1996	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Steve Beshear	12.6	1,307,046
1992	Class III	Wendell H. Ford	Democratic	David Lynn Williams	27.1	1,330,858
1990	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Harvey Sloane	4.4	916,010
1986	Class III	Wendell H. Ford	Democratic	Jackson M. Andrews	48.8	677,280
1984 flip	Class II	Mitch McConnell	Republican	Walter Darlington Huddleston	0.4	1,292,407
1980	Class III	Wendell H. Ford	Democratic	Mary Louise Foust	30.3	1,106,920
1978	Class II	Walter Darlington Huddleston	Democratic	Louie Guenthner	24.1	476,783

Rand Paul won in 2022 by 23.6 points.

Mitch McConnell (Republican, term ends 2027) and Rand Paul (Republican, term ends 2029).

In 1992, when Wendell H. Ford won.

In 2022, when Rand Paul won.

Results: FiveThirtyEight (from 1976 for Senate, 1996 for governor). Current members: congress-legislators.