Governor's Race Goes Down To Wire: Republicans Win Locally But Beshear Edges Bevin Statewide

Edmonson County Sees Near 40% Turnout As Republicans Win Locally

Darren Doyle, story:
Edmonson County voted heavily for republicans in tonight's general election, but statewide, the governor's race went down to the wire as democratic challenger Andy Beshear took 49.18% of the vote (711,955) narrowly edging republican Governor Matt Bevin's 48.86% (707,297) by only 4,658 votes.

Bevin has not conceded at this time. KY has no mandatory recount law, but the governor could request counties recanvass their results, which is simply a check of the vote count to ensure the results were added correctly. For a recount, a court would have to approve the process.

County totals were:
Governor: 
Matt Bevin: (R) 2284
Andy Beshear (D) 1383

Secretary of State: 
Michael Adams (R) 2569 
Heather French Henry (D) 1117

Attorney General: 
Daniel Cameron (R) 2619
Greg Stumbo (D) 1070

Ag Commissioner:
Ryan Quarles (R) 2766
Robert Conway (D) 859

State Auditor:
Mike Harmon: (R) 2569
Sheri Donahue (D) 952

State Treasurer:
Allison Ball (R) 2750
Michael Bonner (D) 884

See the total county wide results below:

Whitney Westerfield won in-county for KY Supreme Court Justice with 1338 votes compared to Christopher Shea Nickell's 889, but Nickell won the district-wide race.

While County Surveyor was on the ballot for a write-in, no one ran as an official write-in candidate. Paul Forrester ran unopposed in one school district seat.

UPDATE 11/6/19: This article was updated with information regarding recounts and recanvassing.