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Kansas Democrats Take Governor's Office, Pick Up U.S. House Seat

By Kansas News Service
Published November 7, 2018 at 10:23 AM CST
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Democratic state Senator Laura Kelly was elected the next governor of Kansas on Tuesday. (Madeline Fox / Kansas News Service)
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On Tuesday night, our Kansas News Service reporters fanned out, watching election results from the top of the ballot to the bottom.  Jim McLean begins our coverage at the top.  The latest polls had the governor’s race between Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Democratic state Senator Laura Kelly as a dead heat, and the candidates had been bracing for a long night.

Stephen Koranda, Brian Grimmett, Madeline Fox, and Jim McLean report for Kansas Public Radio and the Kansas News Service.  The Kansas News Service is a collaboration involving public media outlets dedicated to covering health, education and politics across the state.

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Amy Jeffries and Scott Canon from the Kansas News Service - and KPR's J. Schafer - contributed to this report.
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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
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