Hamilton defeats Marshall in historic Kansas Senate flip

Democrat Adam Hamilton defeated Republican Sen. Roger Marshall in Kansas, ending a 94-year stretch without a Democratic U.S. senator from the state and flipping a seat Republicans had held. The race was called for Hamilton as vote counting continued, with preliminary totals showing him ahead; final certified results were not included in the reports. The Associated Press called the contest at 11:24 p.m. Eastern time. One preliminary tally, with 91% of votes counted, put Hamilton at 51.9% and Marshall at 45.2%. Another account reported 52.1% for Hamilton and 45% for Marshall with 94% tallied as of 11 p.m. Eastern. Both sets of figures were incomplete counts from different reporting times. Kansas last elected a Democrat to the Senate in 1932, when George McGill won. The state has often elected Democratic governors, but Republicans have generally dominated its federal elections. President Donald Trump carried Kansas by more than 16 percentage points in 2024, and Marshall won his first Senate election in 2020 by 11 points. Hamilton, 62, is a United Methodist minister and founding pastor of Church of the Resurrection in the Kansas City area. He had never held elected office and had...