KET Election Coverage

Complete Primary Election Coverage

KET is your source for election results and analysis. Get the latest news on primary election night by watching KET's Primary 2012. Bill Goodman and Renee Shaw will be joined in the studio by commentators Al Cross, John David Dyche, and Jennifer Moore. • live on Tuesday, May 22 at 9/8 pm CT on KET
Note: KET will start reporting returns in Kentucky's presidential, congressional, and legislative primaries at the bottom of the screen during regular programming at 7/6 pm CT.

Watch live webcast beginning Tuesday, May 22, at 9/8 pm CT.

Candidates on Kentucky Tonight

KET's Kentucky Tonight featured a series of programs with candidates for Congress who have opposition in the May 22 primary. All candidates whose names will appear on the ballot in these races were invited to participate. Programs with two races were split into two parts.

• Democrats for the 1st and 3rd Congressional Districts
  Aired on April 23
  Candidates: 1st District—James Buckmaster and Charles Kendall Hatchett. 3rd District— Burrel Charles Farnsley. (Rep. John A. Yarmuth was invited but did not attend.)
  
• Republicans for the 6th Congressional District
  Aired on April 30
  Candidates: Garland "Andy" Barr, Patrick J. Kelly II, and Curtis Kenimer
  
• Democrats for the 4th and 5th Congressional Districts
  Aired on May 7
  Candidates: Greg Frank, 4th District (William R. "Bill" Adkins was invited but did not attend); Michael Ackerman and Kenneth S. Stepp, 5th District
  
• -->Republicans for the 4th Congressional District
  Aired on May 14
  Invited candidates: Marc Carey, Thomas Massie, Gary Moore, Brian D. Oerther, Walter Christian Schumm, Alecia Webb-Edgington, and Tom Wurtz
  

The following incumbents do not have primaries:
—Rep. Edward Whitfield, Republican Party, 1st Congressional District
—Rep. S. Brett Guthrie, Republican Party, 2nd Congressional District
—Rep. Harold "Hal" Rogers, Republican Party, 5th Congressional District
—Rep. Ben Chandler, Democratic Party, 6th Congressional District

The following challengers do not have primaries:
—David Lynn Williams, Democratic Party, 2nd Congressional District
—Brooks Wicker, Republican Party, 3rd Congressional District