By MICHAEL CRIMMINS
Glasgow News 1
Hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians went to their polling places and cast their votes on at least six Kentucky-wide races, the most high profile being the race for the governor between Democratic Incumbent Andy Beshear and former Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron. Beshear unofficially won his re-election bid statewide, but in Barren County every Republican on this year’s ballot won their respective race.
According to the cumulative results available from the Barren County Clerk’s Office, the Republican Party overall received 37.14 percent of the mail-in ballots, 62.07 percent of the absentee walk-ins, 63.43 percent of early voting and 75.33 percent on Election Day totaling to 4,479 votes cast.
Daniel Cameron lost his gubernatorial bid statewide with 47 percent to Beshear’s 53 percent, according to the unofficial results of the Secretary of State’s website, but won in the county receiving a total of 6,918 votes, or 58.21 percent.
In the other five races that appeared on every Kentucky ballot — Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor of Public Accounts, State Treasurer and Commissioner of Agriculture — the Barren County numbers roughly mirrored the statewide results with the Republicans defeating their Democratic opponents.
Incumbent Secretary of State Michael Adams (R) won both statewide and in the county. He received 60 percent of the Kentucky vote and 71.43 percent of Barren County’s vote.
Republican Russell Coleman beat out Pamela Stevenson for Attorney General, receiving 58 percent statewide and 69.20 percent across Barren County’s nine voting locations.
Allison Ball, who was running for Auditor of Public Accounts, won her race against Kimberly Reeder by 20 percentage points statewide — 60 percent to Reeder’s 40 percent — and carried Barren County with 72.23 percent of the vote. State Treasurer went to Mark Metcalf who got 57 percent across the commonwealth and 67.09 percent in the county. Jonathan Shell also brought home a victory with 59 percent and 72.51 percent.
All-in-all, 11,947 ballots were cast in Barren County.
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