NATIONAL ELECTION RETURNS : EDITION-TIME COMPILATIONS : State-by-State Election Reports of Key Races and Issues : Kentucky
Democratic Sen. Wendell H. Ford coasted to an easy third-term victory, while former major-league pitcher Jim Bunning won election to Congress as a Republican.
Ford, a former governor, defeated Republican Jackson M. Andrews, a Louisville attorney whose only election victory in four tries came in the May primary.
With 64% of the votes tallied, Ford had 315,398, or 74%, while Andrews had 113,155, or 26%.
Voters in the 4th District chose Bunning, a former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies who was the GOP’s 1983 gubernatorial candidate, over Terry L. Mann, a Democratic state representative, for the seat of retiring GOP Rep. M. Gene Snyder.
With 419 of 428 precincts reporting, Bunning had 65,475 votes, or 56%, while Mann had 52,467, or 44%.
The state’s congressional lineup of four Democrats and three Republicans remains unchanged.
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