Official Results - Kentucky Secretary of State

Election Results 

Beshear & Mongiardo             D             619,654      58.7%

Fletcher & Rudolph                 R            435,857       41.3%

Voter Turnout

Total Registered:   2,840,898

Louisville Courier-Journal

Democrat Steve Beshear, in a smashing return to Kentucky politics after more than a decade on the sidelines, won a landslide victory last night over Gov. Ernie Fletcher.

Beshear won nearly 60 percent of the vote in defeating Fletcher, a Republican seeking to become the first member of his party to serve two terms as governor, by a margin of 18 percentage points.