 In the general election, Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes defeated Republican Bill Johnson.Secretary of State Elaine Walker, a Democrat and former mayor of Bowling Green, was appointed on January 29, 2011 to fill the unexpired term of Trey Grayson.Grayson, a Republican, ran in the 2010 race for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, but he lost in the Republican primary to Rand Paul (who went on to be elected to the Senate).