Laura Kelly won with 49.5% of the vote (499,671 votes), ahead of Derek Schmidt with 47.3% (477,319 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 2.2 percentage points (22,352 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 2.2 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 2.9 points toward Republicans.
1,008,523 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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