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Mitch McConnell

Republican · Holds US Senate, Kentucky
41
Years in Congress
84
Age
7
Races won · in our records
0
Races lost · in our records

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Career

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YearRaceResultShareLost to, or other round
2020US Senate, KYWon · primary won 82.8%57.8%
2014US Senate, KYWon · primary won 61.4%56.2%
2008US Senate, KYWon · primary won 86.1%53%
2002US Senate, KYWon · primary won 100%64.7%
1996US Senate, KYWon55.5%
1990US Senate, KYWon52.2%
1984US Senate, KYWon · primary won49.9%

Filed with the FEC, no race in our files: 2026 US Senate, KY.

This is the record in our results files, FEC candidate lists and DIME, not a complete career. Results for other offices, earlier years and most primaries can be missing. A general that went to a runoff counts as neither a win nor a loss.

Spectrum

1 published measure

The marker is the one published measure below. The middle means centrist on that measure’s own scale, not the middle of Congress. How this works

By donors (CFscore, 2024 cycle)

Research estimate from Stanford DIME 4.0. Source

Method and limits

Published score 1.072 on a scale from −2.0 to 2.0, where 0 is the center. 2,210 donors. License: ODC-BY 1.0.

Places a candidate by who gave them money; candidates who share donors sit close together.

Reflects the donor network, not votes or views, and comes from past cycles, not a 2026 reading.

More about Mitch McConnell

Offices held (7 terms and offices)

  • 1985 to nowUS SenateRepublican

Committees (14 assignments)

  • Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

    • Commodities, Derivatives, Risk Management, and Trade subcommittee
    • Chairman of the Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research subcommittee
    • Rural Development, Energy, and Credit subcommittee

  • Senate Committee on Appropriations

    • Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies subcommittee
    • Chairman of the Department of Defense subcommittee
    • Energy and Water Development subcommittee
    • Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies subcommittee
    • Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies subcommittee
    • State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittee

  • Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, Chairman

  • Joint Committee on Printing, Chairman

  • Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, Vice Chairman

Sources (7 sources)

  • Photo: Official congressional portrait via unitedstates/images (U.S. Government Publishing Office). Image · Public domain.
  • Age: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0), official birthday field, counted to Nov 3, 2026. We show the age, never the birth date.
  • Took office in Congress 1985-01-03. Basis: congress-legislators terms (CC0).

Officials files, 2026 candidate files, returns files, DIME, FEC candidate master and congress-legislators terms, as of 2026-10-29. Nothing about jobs, retirement, or reasons is recorded or inferred.

DataSources: DIME (ODC-BY), Results filesData as of Oct 29, 2026

Where this sits

Senate4553Senate: 45 Democratic, 53 Republican, 2 independent.House214218House: 214 Democratic, 218 Republican, 1 independent, 2 vacant.Governors2426Governors: 24 Democratic, 26 Republican.