TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the midterm election in Kansas (all times local):
Freshman Republican Rep. Roger Marshall has won re-election in his western Kansas congressional district.
Marshall easily prevailed in Tuesday’s election over Democrat Alan LaPolice in the 1st District.
The district covers the western two-thirds of Kansas and is among the safest for the GOP in the nation. Republicans have represented western Kansas in Congress for more than 60 years.
Marshall is a Great Bend physician who won the seat with establishment GOP support in 2016 by ousting tea party Rep. Tim Huelskamp in the primary.
LaPolice was making his third run for the seat. He also lost to Marshall in the 2016 general election running as an independent candidate and unsuccessfully challenged Huelskamp in the GOP primary in 2014. He is an Army veteran who farms near Clyde.
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