Latest reporting from the Elections desk.
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About 190 bipartisan election workers began hand-counting roughly 125,000 ballots Nov. 9 at the Johnson County Election Office in Olathe, covering five races that finished within 1% after the Nov. 3 general election.
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Democrat Kristen Schultz leads Republican incumbent Bill Sutton 51% to 49% in unofficial final results for Kansas House District 43, flipping a Gardner-area seat no Democrat had held since the mid-1990s.
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Amy Diediker, a Democrat and former music teacher from Olathe, defeated Republican Jim McMullen with 55% of the vote to flip Kansas State Board of Education District 3, according to unofficial results with all precincts reporting.
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Democrat Adam Hamilton won the Kansas U.S. Senate race on Nov. 3, defeating Republican incumbent Roger Marshall with 51% of the unofficial statewide vote. Hamilton is the first Democrat elected to the Kansas Senate since 1932.
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The victories put new leaders in charge of policy – and raise a harder question for the political establishment: whose judgment about viable candidates deserves to be trusted?
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Democrats break Republican strongholds in Senate and governor races. Dems likely to control both chambers of Congress.
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Democrat Kelsey Stock defeated Republican Thomas Palenske with 54% of the vote in Kansas House District 121, flipping the western Johnson County seat that Republicans had held since 2017.
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With all 4,168 precincts reporting, Democrat Cindy Holscher held a 5,557-vote lead over Republican Ty Masterson in unofficial Kansas governor results as of Nov. 4. The race has not been called, and provisional and late-arriving mail ballots remain to be counted.
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The U.S. Department of Justice is sending approximately 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states for the first time, including to Johnson, Wyandotte and Sedgwick counties in Kansas.
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Incumbent Mike Kelly defeated challenger Karen Crnkovich with 57% of the vote in the nonpartisan Johnson County Commission Chair race on Nov. 3. Unofficial results show Kelly received 153,121 votes to Crnkovich's 114,933.
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Johnson County voters have cast 92,646 ballots through seven days of early voting for the Nov. 3 election, far outpacing the 2022 midterm, and residents in Olathe, Lenexa, Gardner, De Soto and Spring Hill still have a week to vote early at local sites.
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District Magistrate Judge Jenifer J. Ashford appears on the Tuesday, Nov. 3, Kansas General Election ballot for a nonpartisan retention vote in District 10, Division 1, after serving on the Johnson County bench since 2017.
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