Allison Ball wins election as Kentucky's Auditor

Outgoing Kentucky Treasurer Allison Ball will switch offices in the Capitol as she has won election as Kentucky Auditor.

The Associated Press called the race at 6:47 p.m. with about 50% of the vote counted. Ball was leading her challenger, Democrat Kimberley Reeder, a tax attorney originally from Rowan County, by 22%.

Ball had reached her term limit as treasurer. Prior to her election in 2015, Ball was a bankruptcy attorney and a former Assistant Floyd County Attorney.

She succeeds Mike Harmon as Auditor of Public Accounts.