Kentucky · U.S. Senate
KY Class 2 Senate seat
Coverage: this seat is included in the 2026 national listing.
Candidate source
Candidate source: Kentucky State Board of Elections (elect.ky.gov) — https://elect.ky.gov/Candidates/Pages/Candidate-Filing.aspx (retrieved 2026-09-28). Absence of a candidate row is never evidence that a race has no candidates.
How the candidate list was checked
Rows read from the official source: 0 · published here: 0 · left out by rule: 0 · held back for review: 0. Official authority identified; acquisition attempted and blocked — see blockers_or_notes.
Boundaries and sources
County–district classifications come from official block-assignment files, cross-checked against Census representations; render geometry is display-only.
Current officeholder
The current officeholder has not been confirmed in this edition. This does not establish that the seat is vacant.
Polling
Not charted: no general-election polls in the source.
PrivateVoteHub Polls from the VoteHub Polling API, retrieved October 7, 2026, used under CC BY 4.0. How polls are chosen
Economic profile of the state this seat represents
FederalCensus Bureau American Community Survey 2020-2024 (5-year) · survey period 2020-2024 · State of Kentucky
- Median household income$63,726± $429
- Poverty rate16.1%± 0.3 ppPopulation for whom poverty status is determined
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)45.4%± 0.6 ppRenter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed
- Homeownership rate68.3%± 0.4 ppOccupied housing units
- Bachelor's degree or higher (age 25+)27.6%± 0.3 ppPopulation 25 years and over
Technical definitions (ACS tables)
- Rent burden (30%+ of income on gross rent)
- Renter-occupied households paying cash rent for which rent burden is computed: B25070_001 minus B25070_011 (Not computed)
This seat's geography is exactly coterminous with its state (or the District), so the state estimates from the same edition apply directly.
Structural five-year survey conditions — not current monthly conditions. Uncertainties are 90% margins of error: the published ACS margin for median income; Census-formula approximations (ACS handbook ch. 8) for the rates. “Margin unavailable” means the source supplies no usable margin — never zero.
Campaign finances
No contest in this release carries campaign-finance context.
Current officeholder — Congress.gov context
Mitch McConnell · Republican · Kentucky · served in 21 Congresses since 1985
Identity verified against the official Congress.gov member record (Bioguide M000355), recorded through 2026-10-04T02:54:23Z. Current officeholding is separate from 2026 candidacy status. Official member website.
No recent sponsored or cosponsored item had a confirmed relevant official subject; the list is omitted rather than padded.
Counties and this district
County boundaries for this seat are not published in this release. Explore individual counties on the county map.