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2020 Kansas Senate election

The 2020 Kansas Senate election took place as part of the 2020 United States elections. Kansas voters elected state senators in all of the state's 40 senate districts. Senators serve four-year terms.

Retirements

Four incumbents did not run for reelection in 2020. Those incumbents are:

Republicans

  1. District 8: Jim Denning: Retiring
  2. District 30: Susan Wagle: Retiring

Democrats

  1. District 7: Barbara Bollier: Retiring; ran for United States Senate
  2. District 18: Vic Miller: Retiring

Incumbents defeated

In primary elections

Republicans

Seven Republicans lost renomination.

  1. District 11: John Skubal lost renomination to Kellie Warren.
  2. District 14: Bruce Givens lost renomination to Michael Fagg.
  3. District 15: Dan Goddard lost renomination to Virgil Peck Jr.
  4. District 20: Eric Rucker lost renomination to Brenda Dietrich.
  5. District 24: Randall Hardy lost renomination to J. R. Claeys.
  6. District 33: Mary Jo Taylor lost renomination to Alicia Straub.
  7. District 34: Ed Berger lost renomination to Mark Steffen.

In the general election

Republican

  1. District 5: Kevin Braun lost to Jeff Pittman.

Democratic

  1. District 19: Anthony Hensley lost to Rick Kloos.

Predictions

Results summary

Close races

Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:

  1. <span style="color:blue;">District 22, 1.2%</span>
  2. <span style="color:blue;">District 3, 2.04%</span>
  3. <span style="color:red;">District 19, 2.42%</span> (flip)
  4. <span style="color:red;">District 10, 3.72%</span>
  5. <span style="color:red;">District 30, 4.22%</span>
  6. <span style="color:red;">District 9, 4.52%</span>
  7. <span style="color:red;">District 11, 5.36%</span>
  8. <span style="color:blue;">District 5, 6.04%</span> (flip)
  9. <span style="color:red;">District 23, 6.22%</span>
  10. <span style="color:red;">District 28, 8.1%</span>
  11. <span style="color:blue;">District 8, 8.72%</span> (flip)
  12. <span style="color:blue;">District 25, 9.18%</span>
  13. <span style="color:blue;">District 21, 9.58%</span>

Summary of results by State Senate district

References