2004 Kentucky's 6th Congressional District Special Election
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The 2004 United States House of Representatives special election in Kentucky's 6th congressional district was held on February 17, 2004, to select the successor to
Ernie Fletcher Ernest Lee Fletcher (born November 12, 1952) is an American physician and politician who was the List of governors of Kentucky, 60th governor of Kentucky from 2003 to 2007. He previously served three consecutive terms in the United States House ...
(R) who resigned upon being elected
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. Each party held a nominating convention to choose their nominee for the special election. Republicans selected
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Alice Kerr over state Representatives
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and Lonnie Napier and Lexington city councilman Charles Ellinger II as their nominee while Democrats chose former
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and 2003 Democratic gubernatorial nominee
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. Chandler won the election to fill out the rest of Fletcher's unexpired term. This was a symbolic victory for Democrats considering that the man Chandler succeeded was the same one he lost to in the
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months earlier. Though Kerr was able to out raise and out spend Chandler, it was not enough to overcome his popularity, who in addition to having served as state attorney general was also the grandson of
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, a former governor, U.S. Senator, and
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, in this conservative, but generally ticket-splitting Lexington centered District, which supported Fletcher with 71% in 2002, and
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over
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by a smaller but nonetheless substantial 55% to 42% margin in the Presidential election of 2000.


Election results


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