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The 2022 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 8, 2022, to elect a member of the
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to represent the
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of
Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
. Incumbent Republican Senator
Jerry Moran Gerald Wesley Moran ( ; born May 29, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Kansas, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was chair of the National Republican Senato ...
was first elected in
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
, winning the seat vacated by
Sam Brownback Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States Senate, United States senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and as the List of governors of Kansas, 46th governor of K ...
, and ran for re-election to a third term in office.
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, the former mayor of Kansas City, was Moran's opponent in the general election. Moran ultimately won the election, but his 60% share of the vote represented another decline from his first victory in 2010, and he lost Johnson County, a major suburban county that had been recently trending left in elections, for the first time in his career. Even so, he still won re-election by an overwhelming margin, despite incumbent Democratic governor
Laura Kelly Laura Jeanne Kelly (born January 24, 1950)"Laura Kelly,"
''Kansapedia,'' Kansas H ...
winning re-election on the same ballot. This was the first election since
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where the winner of the United States Senate election in Kansas was of a different party from the winner of the concurrent
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, and the first election since
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where the winner of the United States Senate election in Kansas for the Class 3 Senate seat was of a different party from the winner of the concurrent
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.


Republican primary


Candidates


Nominee

*
Jerry Moran Gerald Wesley Moran ( ; born May 29, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who is the senior United States senator from Kansas, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was chair of the National Republican Senato ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator


Eliminated in primary

*Joan Farr, independent candidate for the
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in Oklahoma in
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and
2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...


Declined

*
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, former
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, former
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, and former U.S. Representative for ''(endorsed Moran)''


Endorsements


Results


Democratic primary


Candidates


Nominee

*
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,
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pastor and former mayor of
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=Eliminated in primary

= * Mike Andra, farmer * Paul Buskirk, educator * Robert Klingenberg, salesman and truck driver * Michael Soetaert, former Republican candidate for in
2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...
* Patrick Wiesner, bankruptcy attorney, candidate for U.S. Senate in
2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...
,
2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...
and nominee in
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Results


Libertarian convention


Candidates


Nominee

*David Graham, attorney


General election


Predictions


Post-primary endorsements


Polling

Graphical summary


Results


Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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(largest city:
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)


By congressional district

Moran won all four congressional districts, including one that elected a Democrat.https://davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap::2ea884cd-5687-48b4-879a-4f780d3de1cf


See also

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Elections in Kansas The number of elections in Kansas varies by year. Kansas has a gubernatorial election every four years. Members of the state's United States congressional delegation run for election or re-election at the times set out in the United States Con ...
*
Political party strength in Kansas The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Kansas: *Governor *Lieutenant governor * Secretary of state *Attorney general *State treasurer *Insurance commissioner The table also indicates the historical party ...
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Kansas Democratic Party The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas and one of two major parties in the state, alongside the Republicans. The chair of the party is Jeanna Repass. The party currently controls the state's ...
*
Kansas Republican Party The Kansas Republican Party is the state affiliate political party in Kansas of the United States Republican Party. The Kansas Republican Party was organized in May 1859. At the state level, the party is largely split between its moderate and co ...
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Government of Kansas The government of the U.S. state of Kansas, established by the Kansas Constitution, is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal Government of the United States. The state government has three branches: the executive, the legislative, and ...
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2022 Kansas gubernatorial election The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Kansas, with Partisan primary, primary elections taking place on August 2, 2022. Governor Laura Kelly won re-election to a second term, defeating ...
* 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas *
2022 Kansas House of Representatives election The 2022 Kansas House of Representatives elections took place as a part of the 2022 United States elections. All 125 seats in the Kansas House of Representatives were up for re-election. Representatives serve two year terms and are not Term l ...
*
2022 Kansas elections Kansas state elections were held in the state of Kansas on November 8, 2022. Primary elections were held on August 2, 2022. Voters elected all six executive officers, the lower house of the state legislature, and all of the state's delegation ...
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2022 United States Senate elections The 2022 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with other midterm elections at the federal, state, and local levels. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Sena ...
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2022 United States elections Elections in the United States, Elections were held in the United States on November 8, 2022, with the exception of absentee balloting. During this U.S. midterm election, which occurred during the term of president Joe Biden, all 435 seats in ...


Notes

Partisan clients


References


External links

Official campaign websites
David Graham (L) for Senate

Mark Holland (D) for Senate

Jerry Moran (R) for Senate
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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...
Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
United States Senate The United States Senate is a chamber of the Bicameralism, bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, with the United States House of Representatives, U.S. House of Representatives being the lower house. Together, the Senate and ...