Matt Bevin victorious over state attorney general Jack Conway despite months of trailing in polls in one of Democrats’ final southern strongholdsDemocrats lost one of their final bastions in the American south on Tuesday as businessman Matt Bevin was elected only the second Republican governor of Kentucky in the past 40 years.
Bevin edged out Democratic state attorney general Jack Conway by a margin of 52% to 44% with over 90% of precincts reporting in what was one of the most closely watched elections of 2015. Libertarian Drew Curtis,the founder of Fark.com, received just 4%.
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Source: theguardian.com