2010Flipped from DemocraticFinal results
2010 election for Kentucky Senate District 34
Kentucky State Senate · Kentucky
Jared Carpenter (R) won with 64.9% of the vote, defeating Lee Murphy (D) by 32.6 points, a seat Democrats won last time.
Jared CarpenterRepublican · winner
64.9%23,553
Lee MurphyDemocrat
32.3%11,719
Donald Paul VanwinkleOther party
2.8%1,004
36,276 votes
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET
The seat over time
D − R margin in this seat's races around 2010
Races before and after
Source: Harvard Dataverse / Carl KlarnerUpdated Sep 30, 2026, 7:29 AM ET