https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/live-blog/election-day-voting-results-live-updates-rcna121782#rcrd24770

18m ago / 6:12 PM CST

==Kentucky Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams wins re-election

Scott Bland==

Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams won re-election in Kentucky, NBC News projects, earning another four years as the state’s chief election officer.

Adams, who worked to pass a bipartisan election law in Kentucky after managing the state’s voting during the Covid-19 pandemic, faced GOP primary challengers earlier this year who charged that he wasn’t doing enough to combat voter fraud

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4m ago / 6:34 PM CST

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear running slightly ahead of his 2019 vote share in several nearly completed counties

Scott Bland

Kentucky’s race for governor is too close to call, but a positive sign for Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear is emerging in the counties that are nearly done counting their votes. He’s running slightly ahead of his 2019 vote share so far in those counties — and, of course, Beshear won the governorship in 2019.

Take Bell County, where 29 of 30 precincts are in. Republican Daniel Cameron leads Beshear there so far, 59.8% to 40.3% — but that’s a county where Beshear only got 36.5% of the vote when he narrowly won statewide in 2019.

Another example: Taylor County, where 18 of 20 precincts are in. Again, Cameron leads: 59.2% to 40.8%. But again, Beshear is running ahead of his 2019 vote share in the county (36.9%).