With a strong voter turnout in Wyandotte County, challenger Mark Dupree defeated incumbent District Attorney Jerry Gorman.
According to the unofficial final election results in Wyandotte County, Dupree received 7,052 votes to Gorman’s 4,840 votes. No Republican candidate filed for the office.
Gorman has been a prosecutor in the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office for about 35 years. He was elected district attorney in 2004.
Dupree, 34, is an attorney in private practice. His brother, Timothy Dupree, was elected a Wyandotte County District Court judge in 2014.
Turnout was 21.38 percent, according to the election office figures, with 16,078 persons voting.
In other contests, Courtney Mikesic received 7,354 votes to Vicki Meyer’s 4,202 for Wyandotte County District Court Judge, Division 7.
Renee S. Henry was the top vote-getter of three candidates for Wyandotte County District Court Judge, Division 13, with 4,787 votes. Tony Martinez received 3,628 votes and Deryl W. Wynn, 2,997.
No Republicans filed for the two judge positions.
Winning their primary contests for U.S. Senate were incumbent Rep. Jerry Moran, a Republican, and Patrick Wiesner, a Democrat.
In the U.S. House, 3rd District, incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder won the Republican contest while Jay Sidie won the Democratic contest.
In the Kansas Senate, 5th District, Bill Hutton won the Democratic nomination with 86 percent of the vote. He will run against incumbent Sen. Steve Fitzgerald, a Republican, in the general election.
State Rep. Broderick Henderson, D-35 Dist., survived a primary challenge tonight, as did State Rep. Kathy Wolfe Moore, D-36th Dist. Rep. Henderson won with about 62 percent of the vote, and Rep. Wolfe Moore had 76.8 percent of the vote.
Elsewhere, one of the biggest upsets of election night was in the U.S. House, 1st District, contest, where U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a Republican, lost to challenger Roger Marshall by a 13 percent margin.
The Wyandotte County election results will be certified next week.
