LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentuckians voted heavily Republican in this year’s general election.

President Donald Trump easily won the Bluegrass State over Democratic challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel cruised to re-election over Democratic challenger Amy McGrath and the incumbent won each of the six races for the U.S. House of Representatives, with four of those five being Republicans. 

Trump snagged Kentucky’s eight votes in the Electoral College after receiving more than 1.2 million votes to Biden’s 700,000 and the president won 118 of Kentucky’s 120 counties, with Fayette and Jefferson being the exceptions.

McConnell handily defeated McGrath in one of the most expensive Senate races in the country’s history. McConnell received more than 1.1 million votes to McGrath’s 748,000. McConnell won every county except Fayette, Franklin and Jefferson.

Republican incumbent Andy Barr defeated Democratic challenger Josh Hicks, a Lexington attorney, to earn his fifth term representing Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. District 6 has been represented by Barr since 2012. He defeated Hicks by about 60,000 votes in District 6, which includes the cities of Lexington, including its suburbs, Richmond, and Frankfort, as well as Anderson, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Estill, Fayette, Fleming, Franklin, Madison, Menifee, Montgomery, Nicholas, Powell, Robertson, Scott, Wolfe, and Woodford counties, and portions of Harrison and Jessamine counties.

“The voters in District 6 have given me the continued privilege to fight for you, to fight for your family, and to fight for your future in the greatest democratic institutions in the history of the world, the United States House of Representatives,” Barr said in his victory speech. “We do not yet know the outcome of tonight's presidential election or the many other congressional races across the country. Regardless of the outcome, the political polarization and division that presently unsettles our national life will likely continue. but despite the differences that separate our country citizens, I promise to continue my practice of working across the aisle to work with whoever wins the presidency, to find solutions and get results for the people of the Sixth District.”

Hick’s had an early lead in the race but Barr pulled ahead as more precincts reported; Barr ultimately won the race with nearly 58% of the vote.

“Over the past year and a half, I have been privileged to be a part of a movement that was about so much more than just me, or just my ideas,” Hicks said in a statement. “This has been a campaign of, and by, and for regular folks, and I am humbled to have been a part of it. I am deeply grateful to everyone who helped us build this campaign. Whether you spent your free time making phone calls or gave a few of your hard-earned dollars, your belief and energy sustained me. Tonight, I congratulate Congressman Barr on his victory in this election, and I thank the thousands of volunteers and supporters I’ve met across the Sixth District during our campaign.”

Republican incumbent Rep. James Comer easily defeated his Democratic challenger James Rhodes for the U.S. House seat in Kentucky’s District 1 and Republican Rep. Brett Guthrie won big over Democratic challenger Hank Linderman in District 2. Kentucky’s lone Democrat in the U.S. House, Rep. John Yarmuth, defeated Republican challenger Rhonda Palazzo in District 3 with 221,000 votes to his challenger’s 134,000. Republican Rep. Thomas Massie was re-elected over Democratic challenger Alexandra Owensby in District 4 with 67% of the vote, and Republican incumbent Rep. Hal Rogers was victorious in District 5 with 84% of the vote.

With newly implemented voting guidelines while in the midst of a pandemic, Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams praised voters for casting a ballot.

“I’m proud of the millions of Kentuckians who defied a pandemic to participate in a historic election, and I’m grateful to the bipartisan coalition who worked with me – the governor, the State Board of Elections, our tireless county clerks, and our heroic poll workers – over many months to make Kentucky’s election again a national model,” he said.