Higdon wins Senate seat in special election
State Rep. Jimmy Higdon, R-Lebanon, captured 56 percent of the vote and carried four of the five counties in the 14th District on Tuesday to become the fourth Morehead State University alumnus in the 2010 Kentucky Senate.
Higdon, who was elected to three terms in the House, received 11,327 votes to 8,881 for his opponent, former Rep. Jodie Haydon, D-Bardstown. He carried Marion, Mercer, Taylor and Washington counties while Haydon won Nelson County in the special election.
A 1975 graduate of MSU, the new senator is married and the father of two children. He owns and operates a food market in Lebanon.
He will take office immediately to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of former Sen. Dan Kelly, R-Springfield, now a circuit judge.
Other MSU alumni in the Senate are Sen. Walter Blevins, D-Sandy Hook; Sen. Robin Webb, D-Grayson; and Sen. Johnny Ray Turner, D-Drift. Turner is the minority caucus chair.
Posted: 12-9-09
