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1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky

1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky

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The 1984 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 5, 1984. Incumbent Democratic Senator Walter Dee Huddleston lost re-election to a third term to Mitch McConnell by less than 0.5%. This was the only Republican flip of the 1984 U.S. Senate elections.

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Huddleston was unopposed in the Democratic Party's primary. Governor John Y. Brown Jr. filed to run in March 1984, but withdrew for health reasons a few weeks later.[1]

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  1. [1]
    "CAMPAIGN NOTES - Brown of Kentucky Quits Race for Senate - NYTimes.com". New York Times. Associated Press. May 24, 2015. Archived from the original on May 24, 2015. Retrieved October 25, 2023.
  2. [2]
    "Kentucky State Board of Elections Welcome to the State Board of Elections". Elect.ky.gov. Archived from the original on November 13, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  3. [3]
    Clerk of the United States House of Representatives (1985). "Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 6, 1984" (PDF). U.S. Government Printing Office.
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