Republican Derek Schmidt is back in public office after beating Democrat Nancy Boyda in the Kansas 2nd Congressional District race. 

His win means three Republicans will represent Kansas in the U.S. House — with U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids the only Democrat in the Kansas delegation. 

Derek Schmidt beats Nancy Boyda in 2nd District

Schmidt, the former Kansas attorney general, is headed to Congress and back to politics after a failed run at governor in 2022. He lost that race to Gov. Laura Kelly by 2.2%. 

The Associated Press called the face for Schmidt with roughly 55% of the vote.

Boyda ran as a moderate. She supports border security bills, but blasts mass deportation. She supports LGBTQ+ rights, but doesn’t think transgender women should play in women’s sports. 

Schmidt is more conservative, which helped him win in the conservative 2nd Congressional District. 

He was endorsed by Donald Trump and the anti-abortion group Kansans for Life. 

His top issues were combating inflation, limiting government spending, securing the southern border and preventing big government that seeps into Kansans’ lives “through overregulation and overtaxation.”

“This country has serious, serious challenges,” Schmidt said on a Fox 4 interview. “In terms of top issues, I didn’t pick them. It is what people have told me.” 

Sharice Davids beats Prasanth Reddy in 3rd District

Sharice Davids has won another term in office. She beat Prasanth Reddy, a doctor and lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserves. She appeared on path to win by about 5 percentage points.

Kansas Republicans redrew the 3rd Congressional District before the 2022 election to make it harder for a Democrat to win, yet Davids has notched another victory in her district. She first took office after the 2018 election. 

Davids’ was the first LGBTQ+ Native American elected to Congress and just one of two Native American women in Congress. 

She supports renewable energy and combating climate change, and she focused her campaign around abortion rights. She cast Reddy as an anti-abortion politician, but he said he had no plans to support a federal abortion ban. 

Tracey Mann beats Paul Buskirk in 1st District

U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann comfortably beat Democratic challenger Paul Buskirk. 

Mann won with about two-thirds of the vote.

Mann is a pro-Trump and anti-abortion candidate who has served in Congress since 2021. Mann, the former lieutenant governor of Kansas, sponsored a bill that would require the president to tell Congress about an executive order on abortion 30 days before it happens. 

Ron Estes beats Esau Freeman in 4th District

U.S. Rep. Ron Estes won another term in Congress after beating Esau Freeman. 

Estes captured nearly two in three votes in the race.

Estes has been in Congress since 2017. He is anti-abortion, against tax increases and pro-guns. 

The first bill he ever co-sponsored was a concealed carry act that lets people carry concealed weapons across state lines.