United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2014

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November 4, 2014

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Turnout

46.27%


Nominee	Mitch McConnell	Alison Lundergan Grimes
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	806,787	584,698
Percentage	56.2%	40.7%

County results

U.S. Senator before election

Mitch McConnell
Republican

Elected U.S. Senator

Mitch McConnell
Republican

The 2014 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 4, 2014 to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the Commonwealth of Kentucky, concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.

Incumbent Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, the Senate Minority Leader, ran for re-election to a sixth term. He faced Democratic nominee and Kentucky Secretary of State Allison Lundergan Grimes and Libertarian nominee David Patterson in the general election.

The race was initially considered one of the most competitive in the 2014 election year. The Cook Political Report considered the race a toss up and the Rothenberg Political Report considered the race to "lean Republican." McConnell ultimately defeated Grimes by a larger-than-expected margin.

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