Incumbent: Mitch McConnell · Republican
Nate Morris (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 19, 2026. As of February 22, 2026, Morris was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Morris Industries.
Andy Barr (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2013. His current term ends on January 3, 2027. Barr (Republican Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. He advanced from the Republican primary on May 19, 2026. Barr also ran for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
Daniel Cameron (Republican Party) was the Attorney General of Kentucky. He assumed office on December 17, 2019. He left office on January 1, 2024. Cameron (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He lost in the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
Amy McGrath (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
Dale Romans (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
Charles Booker (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. He advanced from the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026. Booker (Democratic Party) was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 43. He assumed office on January 1, 2019. He left office on December 31, 2020.
Joel Willett (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
Pamela Stevenson (Democratic Party) is a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 43. She assumed office on January 1, 2021. Her current term ends on January 1, 2027. Stevenson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. She lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026. Stevenson began serving asminority leaderof the Kentucky House of Representativeson January 7, 2025.
Mitch McConnell (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Kentucky. He assumed office on January 3, 1985. His current term ends on January 3, 2027. On February 20, 2025, McConnell announced he would not seek re-election to the U.S. Senate in 2026. In his announcement, he said, "Seven times, my fellow Kentuckians have sent me to the Senate. Every day in between I’ve been humbled by the trust they’ve placed in me to do their business here. Representing our Commonwealth has been the honor of a lifetime."Click here for more details. McConnell served as the Senate majority leader between 2015 and 2021.He also served as Senate minority leader between 2007 and 2015, and again between 2021 and 2025.In 2023, McConnell became the longest-serving U.S. Senate leader in history. He announced on February 28, 2024, that he wouldstep downas leader in November 2024. McConnell was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1942 and graduated from the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1967.He served as judge-executive of Jefferson County, Kentucky, from 1979 to 1985, when he was first elected to the Senate. According to The Washington Post'sDan Balz, McConnell's "overriding priority was to remake the federal judiciary."In 2016, McConnell delayed a vote on Merrick Garland, then-President Barack Obama's (D) nominee to fill the late JusticeAntonin Scalia's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. McConnell said, "The American people should have a say in the court's direction. It is a president's constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice, and it is the Senate's constitutional right to act as a check on the president and withhold its consent."Donald Trump (R) wonthe presidential election in 2016. Trump nominatedNeil Gorsuch to the court on January 31, 2017. Under McConnell's leadership from 2017 to 2021, the Senate confirmedthree of President Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominees, expanding the Court's conservative majority. Politico'sBurgess Everett wrote, "After Democrats took the House in 2018, McConnell went intooverdrive and nearly doubled his pace of lower-court confirmations. Ultimately, Trump and McConnell ushered in three new Supreme Court justices, 54 Circuit Court justices and 174 District Court justices — all lifetime appointees, many of them relatively young." National Review's Rich Lowry said McConnell would "be remembered as one of the most effective Senate majority leaders in the modern era. A portion of an early Democratic presidential debate was devoted to asking candidates how they’d get around McConnell as president — and none of them had a good answer."
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Logan Forsythe (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
Charles Booker (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He is on the ballot in the general election on November 3, 2026. He advanced from the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026. Booker (Democratic Party) was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, representing District 43. He assumed office on January 1, 2019. He left office on December 31, 2020.
Donald Wenzel (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. Wenzel lost in the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
Jacob Trimble (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 5th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 19, 2026. Trimble also ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
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Wende Kennedy (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. She did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
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Vincent Thompson (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He lost in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
Roger Thoneywas a 2014Republicancandidate who sought election to the U.S. SenatefromKentucky. Thoney failed to officially file before the January 28, 2014, filing deadline. He was a Republicancandidate for District 67 of the Kentucky House of Representativesin the November 2, 2010, state legislative elections.
Jared Randall (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 3rd Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026. Randall also ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He did not appear on the ballot for the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.
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Anissa Catlett (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. She lost in the Republican primary on May 19, 2026.
Nicholas Alsager (Republican Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He lost in the Republican primary on June 23, 2020.
David Biery (independent) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Kentucky. He declared candidacy for the 2028 election.
