Republican Rep. Tracey Mann won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Kansas on Tuesday. Mann won his third term by defeating Democrat Paul Buskirk in the 1st Congressional District.
Mann is a former Kansas lieutenant governor who was first elected to Congress in 2020. The district includes western and much of central Kansas but also Buskirk's hometown of Lawrence. Buskirk is a psychologist who provides academic counseling for the athletics department at the main University of Kansas campus in Lawrence.
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Republican Ron Estes won election to a U.S. House seat representing Kansas on Tuesday. Estes defeated Democrat Esau Freeman to keep a seat he's held since 2017 in the 4th District of south-central Kansas.
Estes is a former two-term county and state treasurer who won a special election in 2017 to replace Mike Pompeo when Pompeo became CIA director and later U.S. secretary of state under former President Donald Trump.
Freeman is a painter from Wichita who represents service union members in disputes with employers but is best known for advocating the legalization of marijuana in Kansas.
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A former Kansas attorney general’s successful political comeback has kept an open U.S. House seat in Republican hands.
Republican Derek Schmidt defeated Democrat Nancy Boyda to capture the 2nd District seat held by retiring Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner. Schmidt narrowly lost the 2022 governor’s race as he was finishing up his three terms as attorney general.
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Democrat Rep. Sharice Davids won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Kansas on Tuesday. The third-term congresswoman defeated Republican nominee Prasanth Reddy, a physician and immigrant from India whom some Republicans saw as an ideal candidate for Overland Park, in the Kansas City suburbs.
Davids initially flipped this seat in 2018, becoming the first lesbian Native American member of Congress.