United States House of Representatives 001 Precincts Reporting:1381 of 1381

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Alan LaPolice 69,076 32%

R-Roger Marshall 149,708 68%

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United States House of Representatives 002 Precincts Reporting: 924 of 924

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Paul Davis 120,421 46%

L-Kelly Standley 14,402 6%

R-Steve Watkins 124,895 48%

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United States House of Representatives 003 Precincts Reporting: 628 of 628

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Sharice Davids 164,253 53%

L-Chris Clemmons 7,643 3%

R-Kevin Yoder 136,104 44%

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United States House of Representatives 004 Precincts Reporting: 623 of 623

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-James A. Thompson 93,384 40%

R-Ron Estes 138,856 60%

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Governor / Lt. Governor Precincts Reporting:3556 of 3556

Candidate Votes % View Map

i-Rick Kloos 6,232 1%

i-Greg Orman 66,163 7%

D-Laura Kelly 489,337 48%

L-Jeff Caldwell 18,898 2%

R-Kris Kobach 443,346 43%

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Secretary of State Precincts Reporting:3556 of 3556

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Brian “BAM” McClendon 441,444 44%

L-Rob Hodgkinson 35,515 4%

R-Scott Schwab 536,472 53%

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Attorney General Precincts Reporting:3556 of 3556

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Sarah G. Swain 410,881 41%

R-Derek Schmidt 599,773 59%

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State Treasurer Precincts Reporting:3556 of 3556

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Marci Francisco 421,425 42%

R-Jake LaTurner 584,039 58%

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Commissioner of Insurance Precincts Reporting:3556 of 3556

Candidate Votes % View Map

D-Nathaniel McLaughlin 365,404 37%

R-Vicki Schmidt 628,635 63%

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Kansas Senate 013 Precincts Reporting: 109 of 109

Candidate Votes %

D-Bryan Hoffman 10,188 40%

L-Sam Habjan 1,410 6%

R-Richard Hilderbrand 13,823 54%

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Kansas House of Representatives 002 Precincts Reporting: 50 of 50

Candidate Votes %

D-Adam J. Lusker Sr. 4,194 49%

R-Kenneth Collins 4,319 51%

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Kansas House of Representatives 003 Precincts Reporting: 22 of 22

Candidate Votes %

D-Monica Murnan 5,011 54%

R-Terry Calloway 4,337 46%

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Kansas House of Representatives 004 Precincts Reporting: 32 of 32

Candidate Votes %

D-Lawrence Forbach 1,895 25%

R-Trevor Jacobs 5,713 75%

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Kansas House of Representatives 005 Precincts Reporting: 36 of 36

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D-Lassey Murphy 2,070 27%

R-Mark Samsel 5,597 73%

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Kansas House of Representatives 008 Precincts Reporting: 18 of 18

Candidate Votes %

D-Michele Lobitz 5,275 43%

R-Chris Croft 6,979 57%

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Kansas House of Representatives 014 Precincts Reporting: 21 of 21

Candidate Votes %

D-Angela Justus Schweller 5,853 49%

R-Charlotte Esau 6,052 51%

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Kansas House of Representatives 015 Precincts Reporting: 13 of 13

Candidate Votes %

D-Chris Haulmark 3,571 48%

R-John Toplikar 3,822 52%

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Kansas House of Representatives 016 Precincts Reporting: 17 of 17

Candidate Votes %

D-Cindy Holscher 6,591 59%

R-Susan “Sue” Huff 4,624 41%

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Kansas House of Representatives 017 Precincts Reporting: 18 of 18

Candidate Votes %

D-Laura Smith-Everett 5,266 47%

L-Michael Kerner 391 4%

R-Tom Cox 5,652 50%

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Kansas House of Representatives 018 Precincts Reporting: 18 of 18

Candidate Votes %

D-Cindy Neighbor 5,662 53%

R-Eric Jenkins 4,955 47%

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Kansas House of Representatives 019 Precincts Reporting: 21 of 21

Candidate Votes %

D-Stephen Wyatt 5,305 41%

R-Stephanie S. Clayton 7,646 59%

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Kansas House of Representatives 020 Precincts Reporting: 19 of 19

Candidate Votes %

D-Becky Barber 5,108 40%

R-Jan H. Kessinger 7,790 60%

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Kansas House of Representatives 023 Precincts Reporting: 15 of 15

Candidate Votes %

D-Susan Ruiz 4,245 52%

R-Linda Gallagher 3,942 48%

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Kansas House of Representatives 025 Precincts Reporting: 35 of 35

Candidate Votes %

D-Rui Xu 6,417 50%

R-Melissa A. Rooker 6,366 50%

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Kansas House of Representatives 026 Precincts Reporting: 46 of 46

Candidate Votes %

D-Deann Mitchell 5,006 46%

R-Adam Thomas 5,997 55%

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Kansas House of Representatives 027 Precincts Reporting: 25 of 25

Candidate Votes %

D-Nicole Rome 5,286 39%

R-Sean E. Tarwater Sr. 8,211 61%

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Kansas House of Representatives 028 Precincts Reporting: 14 of 14

Candidate Votes %

D-Brian Clausen 4,897 44%

R-Kellie Warren 6,299 56%

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Kansas House of Representatives 029 Precincts Reporting: 17 of 17

Candidate Votes %

D-Brett Parker 6,134 56%

L-Robert Firestone 273 3%

R-James Todd 4,511 41%

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Kansas House of Representatives 030 Precincts Reporting: 18 of 18

Candidate Votes %

D-Brandon Woodard 5,358 54%

R-Wendy Bingesser 4,504 46%

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Kansas House of Representatives 033 Precincts Reporting: 17 of 17

Candidate Votes %

D-Tom Burroughs 4,573 70%

L-Jason Conley 1,991 30%

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Kansas House of Representatives 036 Precincts Reporting: 19 of 19

Candidate Votes %

D-Kathy Wolfe Moore 6,904 70%

R-Chiquita C. Coggs 3,003 30%

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Kansas House of Representatives 038 Precincts Reporting: 27 of 27

Candidate Votes %

D-Stuart W. Sweeney 4,488 42%

R-Willie Dove 6,178 58%

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Kansas House of Representatives 039 Precincts Reporting: 14 of 14

Candidate Votes %

D-Michael Bolton 5,168 46%

R-Owen Donohoe 5,977 54%

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Kansas House of Representatives 040 Precincts Reporting: 11 of 11

Candidate Votes %

D-Debbie Deere 3,489 49%

R-David W. French 3,596 51%

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Kansas House of Representatives 041 Precincts Reporting: 14 of 14

Candidate Votes %

D-Jeff Pittman 2,973 57%

R-Tony Barton 2,214 43%

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Kansas House of Representatives 042 Precincts Reporting: 17 of 17

Candidate Votes %

D-Thea Perry 3,133 37%

R-Jim Karleskint 5,381 63%

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Kansas House of Representatives 043 Precincts Reporting: 36 of 36

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D-Pamela Finley 3,159 40%

R-Bill Sutton 4,779 60%

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Kansas House of Representatives 045 Precincts Reporting: 30 of 30

Candidate Votes %

D-Mike Amyx 9,560 70%

R-Cynthia Smith 4,125 30%

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Kansas House of Representatives 047 Precincts Reporting: 19 of 19

Candidate Votes %

D-George D. Hanna 3,279 37%

R-Ronald B. Ellis 5,680 63%

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Kansas House of Representatives 048 Precincts Reporting: 14 of 14

Candidate Votes %

D-David L. Benson 5,219 50%

R-Abraham Rafie 5,183 50%

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Kansas House of Representatives 049 Precincts Reporting: 12 of 12

Candidate Votes %

D-Darnell W. Hunt 3,680 46%

R-Megan Lynn 4,342 54%

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Kansas House of Representatives 050 Precincts Reporting: 26 of 26

Candidate Votes %

D-Down River Dan Brennan 2,435 23%

R-Fred C. Patton 8,137 77%

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Kansas House of Representatives 051 Precincts Reporting: 31 of 31

Candidate Votes %

D-Noah L. Wright 3,538 35%

R-Ron Highland 6,467 65%

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Kansas House of Representatives 052 Precincts Reporting: 31 of 31

Candidate Votes %

D-Toni Scalia 3,527 30%

R-Brenda S. Dietrich 8,077 70%

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Kansas House of Representatives 054 Precincts Reporting: 26 of 26

Candidate Votes %

D-Sarah Coats 4,021 41%

R-Ken Corbet 5,872 59%

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Kansas House of Representatives 056 Precincts Reporting: 29 of 29

Candidate Votes %

D-Virgil Weigel 4,803 55%

R-Michael J. Snowden 3,912 45%

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Kansas House of Representatives 059 Precincts Reporting: 24 of 24

Candidate Votes %

D-John Hall 1,889 24%

R-Blaine Finch 5,889 76%

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Kansas House of Representatives 062 Precincts Reporting: 54 of 54

Candidate Votes %

D-Melvin L. Baker 2,582 30%

R-Randy Garber 6,130 70%

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Kansas House of Representatives 066 Precincts Reporting: 19 of 19

Candidate Votes %

D-Sydney Carlin 4,757 77%

L-Edgar Chambers 1,400 23%

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Kansas House of Representatives 067 Precincts Reporting: 23 of 23

Candidate Votes %

D-Alex Van Dyke 3,799 38%

R-Tom Phillips 6,213 62%

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Kansas House of Representatives 069 Precincts Reporting: 19 of 19

Candidate Votes %

D-Gerrett Morris 2,688 46%

R-J.R. Claeys 3,209 54%

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Kansas House of Representatives 070 Precincts Reporting: 44 of 44

Candidate Votes %

D-Jo Schwartz 2,508 32%

R-John E Barker 5,315 68%

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Kansas House of Representatives 072 Precincts Reporting: 20 of 20

Candidate Votes %

D-Tim Hodge 4,246 50%

R-Steven G. Kelly 4,330 51%

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Kansas House of Representatives 078 Precincts Reporting: 20 of 20

Candidate Votes %

D-Jason K Darby 4,391 44%

R-Ron Ryckman 5,514 56%

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Kansas House of Representatives 079 Precincts Reporting: 29 of 29

Candidate Votes %

D-Ed Trimmer 3,461 49%

R-Cheryl Helmer 3,586 51%

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Kansas House of Representatives 081 Precincts Reporting: 14 of 14

Candidate Votes %

D-Shala Perez 1,950 33%

R-Blake Carpenter 3,892 67%

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Kansas House of Representatives 082 Precincts Reporting: 17 of 17

Candidate Votes %

D-Danette Harris 3,106 37%

R-Jesse Burris 5,395 64%

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Kansas House of Representatives 083 Precincts Reporting: 10 of 10

Candidate Votes %

D-Henry Helgerson 3,506 62%

R-David J. Robbins 2,178 38%

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Kansas House of Representatives 085 Precincts Reporting: 12 of 12

Candidate Votes %

D-Monica Marks 4,610 46%

R-Michael Capps 5,468 54%

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Kansas House of Representatives 086 Precincts Reporting: 10 of 10

Candidate Votes %

D-Jim Ward 2,939 63%

R-Jim Price 1,707 37%

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Kansas House of Representatives 091 Precincts Reporting: 16 of 16

Candidate Votes %

L-David Loomis 2,239 27%

R-Emil M. Bergquist 6,140 73%

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Kansas House of Representatives 093 Precincts Reporting: 18 of 18

Candidate Votes %

D-Clifton Beck 2,325 29%

R-J.C. Moore 5,590 71%

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Kansas House of Representatives 094 Precincts Reporting: 10 of 10

Candidate Votes %

D-Dan Stiffler 3,611 38%

R-Leo G. Delperdang 5,829 62%

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Kansas House of Representatives 097 Precincts Reporting: 13 of 13

Candidate Votes %

D-Rebecca Jenek 2,672 42%

R-Nick J. Hoheisel 3,648 58%

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Kansas House of Representatives 098 Precincts Reporting: 15 of 15

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D-Steven G. Crum 2,517 48%

R-Ron Howard 2,698 52%

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Kansas House of Representatives 099 Precincts Reporting: 15 of 15

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D-Kristi Kirk 3,479 33%

R-Susan Humphries 7,057 67%

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Kansas House of Representatives 100 Precincts Reporting: 12 of 12

Candidate Votes %

D-Jennifer Winn 3,860 39%

R-Daniel Hawkins 5,934 61%

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Kansas House of Representatives 107 Precincts Reporting: 85 of 85

Candidate Votes %

L-Bryan Bombardier 1,914 23%

R-Susan L Concannon 6,280 77%

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Kansas House of Representatives 110 Precincts Reporting: 70 of 70

Candidate Votes %

D-Kim Thomas 1,994 24%

R-Ken Rahjes 6,287 76%

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Kansas House of Representatives 111 Precincts Reporting: 24 of 24

Candidate Votes %

D-Eber Phelps 4,219 50%

R-Barbara K. Wasinger 4,259 50%

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Kansas House of Representatives 113 Precincts Reporting: 55 of 55

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D-David W. Curtis 1,273 18%

R-Greg Lewis 5,989 83%

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Kansas House of Representatives 114 Precincts Reporting: 63 of 63

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D-Shanna Henry 2,228 29%

R-Jack Thimesch 5,481 71%

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Kansas House of Representatives 120 Precincts Reporting: 88 of 88

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D-Jerry Hill 1,575 19%

R-Adam Smith 6,949 82%

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Kansas House of Representatives 121 Precincts Reporting: 23 of 23

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D-Nick Gill 4,972 41%

R-John Resman 7,042 59%

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Kansas House of Representatives 123 Precincts Reporting: 15 of 15

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D-Pedro Rodriguez 1,923 37%

R-John P. Wheeler Jr. 3,237 63%

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Member, State Board of Education 001 Precincts Reporting: 225 of 225

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D-Janet Waugh 49,977 60%

R-Michael Powell 33,316 40%

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Member, State Board of Education 003 Precincts Reporting: 294 of 294

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D-Ruth E. Goff 56,486 45%

R-Michelle Dombrosky 67,797 55%

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Member, State Board of Education 007 Precincts Reporting: 405 of 405

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D-James Hannon 34,854 38%

R-Ben Jones 57,798 62%

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Kansas (all times local):

9:15 p.m.

Four-term Kansas Rep. Kevin Yoder has been defeated by LGBT Native American Democrat Sharice Davids.

Davids excited voters and Democratic donors with her unusual profile. She is a member of the Wisconsin-based Ho-Chunk Nation who received a law degree from Cornell University and was a White House fellow during former President Barack Obama’s administration. She is a member of the LGBT community and has fought mixed martial arts bouts.

She won the GOP-leaning 3rd District encompassing the Kansas suburbs of Kansas City that President Donald Trump narrowly lost in 2016. He was among 25 Republican incumbents seeking re-election in a district Trump lost.

Yoder is chairman of a House Appropriations subcommittee on homeland security.

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TOPEKA —Republican state Sen. Vicki Schmidt has been elected Kansas insurance commissioner.

The Topeka lawmaker defeated Democrat Nathaniel McLaughlin of Kansas City, Kansas, in Tuesday’s election.

Schmidt is a pharmacist who has served in the Senate since 2005. She is chairwoman of its Public Health and Welfare Committee and has been a key player on health legislation.

She’s also a GOP moderate who has supported expanding the state’s Medicaid health coverage for the poor and disabled following the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act.

McLaughlin is a former regional manager for a health services company and has served as president of the state NAACP chapter. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2016.

Incumbent Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor this year.

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Republican incumbent Jake LaTurner has won a full, four-year term as Kansas state treasurer after being appointed last year to the office.

LaTurner prevailed in Tuesday’s election over Democratic state Sen. Marci Francisco of Lawrence.

He was appointed in April 2017 by former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback to replace Republican Ron Estes, who won a special election for the Wichita-area congressional seat formerly held by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Republican state Sen. Vicki Schmidt has been elected Kansas insurance commissioner.

The Topeka lawmaker defeated Democrat Nathaniel McLaughlin of Kansas City, Kansas, in Tuesday’s election.

Schmidt is a pharmacist who has served in the Senate since 2005. She is chairwoman of its Public Health and Welfare Committee and has been a key player on health legislation.

She’s also a GOP moderate who has supported expanding the state’s Medicaid health coverage for the poor and disabled following the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act.

McLaughlin is a former regional manager for a health services company and has served as president of the state NAACP chapter. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2016.

Incumbent Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for governor this year.

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10:15 p.m.

Republican Derek Schmidt has won a third term as Kansas attorney general.

Schmidt easily defeated Democrat and Lawrence attorney Sarah Swain in Tuesday’s election after the Kansas Democratic Party refused to support her.

The Democratic Party called on Swain to drop out of the race in June because of a poster in her law office showing the superhero Wonder Woman pulling a lasso around a police officer’s neck. Critics said the poster promoted violence against law enforcement officers.

Swain apologized but said it was meant as a metaphor for cross-examination and a zealous defense of clients. She also said she had seen injustices caused by “less-than-honest police officers.”

Schmidt is a former Kansas Senate majority leader who was first elected attorney general in 2010 and re-elected in 2014.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Kansas (all times local):

Republican Rep. Ron Estes has won a full term in Congress representing a Wichita-area district he first won in a tight special election last year for the seat formerly held by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson in a heavily Republican district that President Donald Trump won with 60 percent of the vote in 2016. Pompeo won re-election that year by 31 points. Pompeo’s resignation to join Trump’s administration led to a special election in which Estes defeated Thompson, a civil rights attorney.

Republicans have represented the 17-county southcentral Kansas district since 1994. Estes was the state’s former two-term state treasurer.

The campaign was marked by personal attacks, with Estes pushing stories about Thompson’s previous brushes with the law and Thompson slamming Estes for accepting donations from political action committees.

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Kansas (all times local):

Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab has won the Kansas secretary of state’s race two years after his 10-year-old son died in an accident at a water park.

Schwab defeated Democrat Brian McClendon in Tuesday’s election. Schwab had been favored because Democrats have not elected a Kansas secretary of state in 70 years.

Schwab, from Olathe, is the Kansas House speaker pro tem and a former House Elections Committee chairman. He backed tough voter identification policies championed by Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

Schwab’s son, Caleb, died in August 2016 on a giant waterslide at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas.

McClendon is former Google and Uber executive who returned to his hometown of Lawrence last year.

Kobach gave up the secretary of state’s office to run for governor.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans held onto an eastern Kansas congressional seat Tuesday they had been in danger of losing because of questions about their novice candidate’s public statements.

Steve Watkins defeated Democrat Paul Davis in the 2nd District and will replace retiring five-term GOP Rep. Lynn Jenkins.

Davis was better known as a former Kansas House minority leader and he had carried the district in an unsuccessful run for governor in 2014.

But the district leans Republican: Trump carried it by nearly 17 percentage points in 2016, and Watkins had the president’s endorsement.

Watkins, a former Army officer and government contractor, emerged from a bruising seven-person primary that saw one opponent label him a “fraud” and some local leaders question his commitment to the Republican Party.

Watkins told his supporters that he would work to bring conservative values and military leadership to Congress.

“You took a leap of faith in me,” he said. “I won’t let you down.”

He told WIBW-TV in a short interview that he will focus on immigration and economic issues.

Davis conceded defeat in the race and told a Lawrence crowd that he is done seeking public office. Davis said he called Watkins and congratulated him on his victory.

“He has served our country and I wish him well,” Davis said in remarks at the Douglas County watch party for the Democratic Party in downtown Lawrence.

Topeka voter Tuffy Radford, a 37-year-old Republican, said he voted for Watkins because was confident enough about the economy earlier this year to start his own tile-setting business after struggling to find work a few years ago.

“I need to keep the economy going in my direction,” he said. “The economy’s booming.”

Watkins himself emerged as an issue despite his attractive profile as a political outsider and a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and then worked there, in Iraq and in Central Asia as a government contractor. He’s run the famed Iditarod dog sled race twice in Alaska and attempted to scale Mount Everest in 2015.

But he was caught exaggerating his role in a small business in the Middle East and removed a quote about his “heroic leadership” during the Mount Everest expedition attributed to his guide, after the guide told The Associated Press that he’d never said it.

Even before, Republican critics noted that the Topeka native had spent most of his adult life living outside Kansas and had not voted in the state until a municipal election in November 2017, after he’d decided to run for Congress.

Also, Watkins’ father, a Topeka physician, was heavily involved in the race as the almost-exclusive source of funding for a political action committee, Kansans Can Do Anything, boosting his son’s candidacy. The elder Watkins contributed more than $765,000 to the PAC.

One former GOP foe, ex-state Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, called him “a charlatan, a fraud and an opportunist,” days before the August primary, though he later wouldn’t criticize Watkins. Some GOP leaders also were wary of him after three Democrats said publicly that he met with them last year about running as a Democrat — something he strongly disputed.

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OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A former employee of a suburban Kansas City youth mental health facility has been placed on probation for sex charges.

27-year-old Dijon Willis will have to serve 30 days in jail as a condition of probation. He also was ordered Monday to undergo sex offender treatment and be placed on the state’s sex offender registry for 25 years.

Willis pleaded no contest in August and was found guilty of indecent liberties with a child and attempted sexual exploitation of a child. The charges stemmed from incidents in 2013 and 2014, when Willis worked at KidsTLC in Olathe.

Several residents, both current and former, alleged that Willis touched them inappropriately.

JACKSON COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a series of burglaries and have three suspects in custody.

Just after 1p.m. Monday, a resident saw a red Chevy passenger car leaving their residence at 18075 98thRoad in southeastern Jackson County and discovered the home had been broken into, according to Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse. The resident then found the red Chevy broken down near 98th and V.4 Road and parked in the roadway.

KHP Troopers and sheriff’s deputies scoured the area looking for the suspects. It was later determined that a passerby had picked up the vehicle’s three occupants and drove them to a residence in the 9000 block of Topeka Blvd. in Shawnee County.

A Shawnee County Deputy saw two subjects west of the address in a wooded area. A KHP aircraft also assisted with the search. One of the suspects was taken into custody following being apprehended by a KHP K-9 unit.

Two more suspects were taken into custody west of the address in the 8900 block of Rochester Road. All three subjects were transported to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office for questioning.

Jackson County Deputies impounded the red Chevy passenger car along with property believed to have been taken from the residence.

Taken into custody was 21-year-old Ty Daniel Haire, of Mayetta and 20-year-old Robert Anthony Witmer, of Topeka and a 17-year-old male, of Hoyt.

Witmer was booked into the Jackson County Jail on charges of aggravated burglary and theft. Haire was booked into the Jackson County Jail on charges of aggravated burglary and theft.  The juvenile was booked on the same charges.  The trio allegedly wore masks during the burglary and are also suspected of allegedly committing another half dozen burglaries in the surrounding counties.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Kansas (all times local):

A Republican voter in Topeka has cast his ballot for GOP nominee Steve Watkins in the 2nd Congressional District because he worries that Democrats are just too liberal.

Dane Kenney said Tuesday after voting that he has some misgivings about President Donald Trump’s public statements and his tweeting. Kenny is a 46-year-old heating and air-conditioning systems repairman.

Have you voted yet? #SedgwickVotes #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/QGCek02jhX

— Sedgwick County (@SedgwickCounty) November 6, 2018

Trump endorsed Watkins, a former Army officer and government contractor. Kenney said he likes the president’s policies on taxes and immigration.

Kenney said he voted against Democrat Paul Davis because, in his words, “Honestly, I can’t do liberal.”

Davis has pitched himself as a moderate, but Watkins and other Republicans have portrayed him as a liberal. Kenney said ads for both campaigns were too negative.

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1:15 p.m.

A western Kansas town that was sued after moving its only polling site to a facility outside city limits is giving rides to voters that show up at the old site.

The Wichita Eagle reports that drivers were on hand Tuesday to drive people from the old Dodge City voting location to the new one, which is more than a mile from the nearest bus stop. The ACLU lost a lawsuit to force a second Dodge City polling site.

Among those catching rides in the City’s Convention and Visitors Bureau van were Mohamed Yaaqoub and Ezedeen Younes. They came to America from the Sudan and work at a meatpacking plant.

But at the polls, both had to vote provisional ballots. Yaaquoub didn’t have the proper ID and Younes had changed his address since he registered.

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Republican Kansas Secretary of Kris Kobach says voter turnout appears to be heavy.

Kobach talked to reporters Tuesday in Lecompton as he cast his own ballot for governor. He is running for the seat against Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly. She is wooing GOP moderates who are put off by Kobach’s hardline stances on issues such as immigration, while Kobach expects his conservative base to turn out to counter enthusiasm on the left.

Voters today at Central Resource Library #GoVote @jocogov pic.twitter.com/J4nIfaCg35

— Johnson Co. Library (@jocolibrary) November 6, 2018

A wild card is Independent candidate Greg Orman, a Kansas City-area businessman, who Democrats fear could take enough votes to hand the election to Kobach.

Lines have been reported in locations that include Salina.

Kansas Democrats are also hoping to flip two GOP held U.S. House seats in the eastern part of the state.

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7:05 a.m.

Voters have started casting ballots in Kansas’ closely watched governor’s race and in two hotly contested U.S. House seats.

The race for governor between Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Democratic state Sen. Laura Kelly was a toss-up in the campaign’s final weekend. Kelly is wooing GOP moderates who are put off by Kobach’s hardline stances on issues such as immigration, while Kobach expects his conservative base to turn out to counter enthusiasm on the left. A wild card is Independent candidate Greg Orman.

An honor to vote for myself for Governor of Kansas. I love Kansas and being able to serve my fellow Kansans as governor would be the honor of my life. #ksleg #ksgov #VoteToday #ElectionDay #RemainRed #TeamKobach pic.twitter.com/wKgn4nYQI1

— Kris W. Kobach (@KrisKobach1787) November 6, 2018

In eastern Kansas, incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder is facing a formidable challenge from Democratic newcomer Sharice Davids, who would be the nation’s first LGBT Native American in Congress. And Republican Steve Watkins and Democrat Paul Davis are battling for the seat being vacated by retiring GOP Rep. Lynn Jenkins.