Erin Petrey
Erin Petrey (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Kentucky's 6th Congressional District. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on May 19, 2026.[source]
Petrey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2026
See also: Kentucky's 6th Congressional District election, 2026
Kentucky's 6th Congressional District election, 2026 (May 19 Democratic primary)
Kentucky's 6th Congressional District election, 2026 (May 19 Republican primary)
General election
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
The primary will occur on May 19, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. Additional general election candidates will be added here following the primary.
General election for U.S. House Kentucky District 6
Jay Bowman and Pete Lynch are running in the general election for U.S. House Kentucky District 6 on November 3, 2026.
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 | Jay Bowman (Independent)  | |
 | Pete Lynch (Independent) | |
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 6
The following candidates are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 6 on May 19, 2026.
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 | Jimmy Ausbrooks | |
 | Harvey Carroll Jr. | |
 | Zach Dembo | |
 | Corey Edwards | |
 | David Kloiber | |
 | Erin Petrey | |
 | Cherlynn Stevenson | |
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 6
Ralph Alvarado, Ryan Dotson, Adam Perez Arquette, Greg Plucinski, and Steve Shannon are running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Kentucky District 6 on May 19, 2026.
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Andy Barr (R)
- Deanna Frazier Gordon (R)
Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Erin Petrey completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2026. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Petrey's responses.
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Erin was born in Lexington and raised on a farm in Lawrenceburg, with Kentucky roots reaching from Maysville to Hazard back to the 1700s.
After graduate school, she taught in a public elementary school in South Korea. She then devoted her career to service and impact by strengthening communities through renewable energy and healthcare projects, building critical infrastructure across the U.S. South, and helping grow businesses that created real jobs across the country. Most recently, she focused on making energy-intensive systems like data centers more sustainable, ensuring growth doesn’t come at the expense of people or the planet.
Erin is a lifelong volunteer, working with organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Teen Court, and the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. She is a proud champion of Kentucky, a board member of Bourbon Women, a Kentucky Colonel, an Executive Bourbon Steward, and an active, award-winning member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Erin lives in Lexington with her senior rescue dog, Lila. She enjoys travelling with her mom, practicing her Spanish, and telling anyone who will listen just how special Kentucky really is.- GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE: Affordability, dignity, and democracy. No family should have to choose between paying bills, seeing a doctor, or putting food on the table. Medicaid, SNAP, and other essential programs are lifelines for those in need, and as your representative in Congress, I will fight to keep them strong and out of political danger. I'm running for Congress to put people over special interests, restore the value of the individual vote, end corporate money in politics, abolish ICE, pass term limits, ban congressional stock trading, and rebuild with systems rooted in dignity and due process. In office, I will vote to stop endless military spending, wars of choice, and invest in a better life for all Americans at home.
- HEALTHCARE: Build an affordable and accessible healthcare system. Healthcare is a human right, not a profit engine. Basic preventative and primary care should be free and accessible to all. Insurance companies should not have more say in a patient’s treatment than their doctor; that’s just absurd. I strongly support Medicare for All because as the wealthiest country in the world, we have no excuses not to. I will also propose legislation to prohibit medical bankruptcies - which impact over 500K people per year. A health scare and the wrong type of insurance within this broken system should not prevent people from being able to find housing, get jobs, or pay their bills.
- JOBS: Experience that delivers jobs, not empty promises. We need leaders who know how to create jobs, expand opportunity, build modern infrastructure, and attract investment. This will keep young people in Kentucky and build an economy that works for everyone. In Congress, I will champion policies that bring employers to Kentucky, invest in training our workforce, and push back against reckless tariffs that raise costs, shrink markets, and hurt industries from farming to pharma.
Affordable energy is essential for families to live and businesses to grow. True energy security and independence are how we keep costs stable and reliable over the long term. Clean and renewable energy shouldn’t be a partisan talking point: it’s just common sense. It protects public health, strengthens our economy, attracts new jobs, and delivers savings to communities. Our need for energy will only grow; our ability to create it must grow, too.
Our international and military agenda over the past 18 months has been a disaster. Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela, Gaza, Greenland, Cuba: these are conflicts the U.S. should be working to end, not seeking to create new wars. People are dying, the rich are the only ones benefitting, and the American taxpayer is footing the bill.
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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