1978 United States Senate election in Kentucky

The 1978 United States Senate election in Kentucky took place on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Senator Walter Dee Huddleston won reelection to a second term. , this was the last time Democrats and/or anyone other than Mitch McConnell won the Class 2 Senate seat in Kentucky.

Candidates

 * Louie Guenthner Jr, Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives
 * Oline Carmical
 * Thurman Jerome Hamlin

Candidates

 * Walter Huddleston, incumbent U.S. Senator
 * Jack Watson
 * William Taylor
 * George Tolhurst