LEXINGTON, Ky. _ Charles Booker led Amy McGrath by 49 percentage points among Fayette County voters who cast their ballot in person Tuesday, but most of the votes in the Kentucky Democratic primary for U.S. Senate were submitted by mail and have not yet been counted.
Booker won 72% of the vote, with 1,566 votes. McGrath won 23% of the vote, with 499 votes.
Fayette County reported the results of in-person voting Tuesday night but most results won't be released until next week.
A total of 3,851 people voted on Election Day in Lexington, with 3,760 people voting at Kroger Field and 181 people voting at the Lexington Senior Center, according to results posted at the two locations. The senior center was reserved for people who have disabilities.
Booker has been making a late push in the race, complete with a bus tour and volunteers knocking on doors in an effort to build support in the days leading up to the election. McGrath, who has spent more than $21 million, has been relatively quiet in the final days of the campaign, but set up a website for her supporters to request an absentee ballot when the online portal went live in late May.
The winner will take on U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in the fall.
Fayette County has processed 67,973 absentee ballots so far _ 73% of the 92,611 ballots that were requested. Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins said 12,000 ballots came in the mail Tuesday and that his office had processed around 6,000 of them so far.
In the other races on the ballot Tuesday, Josh Hicks led Daniel Kemph in the Democratic primary for Kentucky's 6th Congressional District, capturing 55% of 1,895 ballots cast. The winner will challenge U.S. Rep. Andy Barr in the fall.
Aaron Yates led Monteia Mundy in the Republican Primary for the 88th District of the state House of Representatives, claiming 78% of 302 votes cast.
