Electoral history of Rand Paul

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U.S. Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The following is a summary of the electoral history of Rand Paul, United States Senator from Kentucky (2011–present).

United States Senate election (2010)[]

Paul successfully won both the Republican nomination and the junior Senate seat for Kentucky during the 2010 Senate election.

Republican primary for the United States Senate from Kentucky, 2010[]

• Rand Paul - 206,986 (58.8%)^[1]
• Trey Grayson - 124,864 (35.4%)
• Bill Johnson - 7,861 (2.2%)
• John Stephenson - 6,885 (2.0%)
• Gurley L. Martin - 2,850 (0.8%)
• Jon J. Scribner - 2,829 (0.8%)

United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2010[]

• Rand Paul - 755,216 (55.74%)
• Jack Conway - 599,617 (44.26%)
• Billy Ray Wilson - 338 (0.02%)

United States Senate election (2016)[]

Paul retained both the Republican nomination and the junior Senate seat for Kentucky during the 2016 Senate election.

Republican primary for the United States Senate from Kentucky, 2016[]

• Rand Paul - 169,180 (84.79%)
• James Gould - 16,611 (8.33%)
• Stephen Howard Slaughter - 13,728 (6.88%)

United States Senate election in Kentucky, 2016[]

• Rand Paul - 1,090,177 (57.27%)
• Jim Gray - 813,246 (42.72%)
• Others - 42 (0.00%)

Presidential primaries (2016)[]

Iowa Republican caucuses, 2016[]

• Ted Cruz - 51,666 (27.64%)
• Donald Trump - 45,427 (24.30%)
• Marco Rubio - 43,165 (23.12%)
• Ben Carson - 17,395 (9.30%)
• Rand Paul - 8,481 (4.54%)
• Jeb Bush - 5,238 (2.80%)
• Carly Fiorina - 3,485 (1.86%)
• John Kasich - 3,474 (1.86%)
• Mike Huckabee - 3,345 (1.79%)
• Chris Christie - 3,284 (1.76%)
• Rick Santorum - 1,783 (0.95%)
• Others - 117 (0.06%)
• Jim Gilmore - 12 (0.01%)

Paul suspended his campaign on February 3, 2016, two days following the Iowa caucus.^[2] Despite this, he continued to get write-in votes in other contests.

Republican Party presidential primaries, 2016[]

• Donald Trump - 14,015,993 (44.95%)
• Ted Cruz - 7,822,100 (25.08%)
• John Kasich - 4,290,448 (13.76%)
• Marco Rubio - 3,515,576 (11.27%)
• Ben Carson - 857,039 (2.75%)
• Jeb Bush - 286,694 (0.92%)
• Others - 144,454 (0.46%)
• Rand Paul - 66,788 (0.21%)
• Chris Christie - 57,637 (0.18%)
• Mike Huckabee - 51,450 (0.16%)
• Carly Fiorina - 40,666 (0.13%)
• Jim Gilmore - 18,369 (0.06%)
• Rick Santorum - 16,627 (0.05%)

References[]

External links[]

• Official website, Presidential campaign
• Official website, U.S. Senate campaign