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Andrew Rosenthal/KANSAN Kansas State Representative of East Lawrence Boog Higheranger (D) attended Douglas County Democrat Watch party at Maceil's Banquet Hall and Catering Tuesday night.
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With Tuesday's shocking presidential election, you may have forgotten about all the other things that were voted on. Here's what you need to know about the down-ballot elections.
1. Local legislators committed to repealing campus carry win their elections
All of Lawrence's incumbent legislators won re-election last night, including some who will work to stop concealed carry from coming to the University's campus next year.
According to unofficial results on the Kansas Secretary of State's website, Rep. Barbara Ballard won her election over Michael Lindsey with 75 percent of the vote. Ballard has been vocally against campus carry and has plans to bring forth a bill to permanently exempt colleges.
During the Douglas County Democratic watch party on Tuesday night, Ballard responded to her apparent win.
"I'm really pleased that my constituents elected me for another term," she said. "It means I have a lot of things to finish and more to start."
Sens. Marci Francisco and Tom Holland and Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley also won reelection.
Rep. Dennis "Boog" Highberger ran unopposed in Tuesday's election and took back his seat. He voiced support for Ballard's bill at a campus event last month, saying that he knows his constituents are against campus carry and will do everything he can to stop it.
2. Gov. Brownback won't
appoint new Supreme Court justices
Court justices
In a contentious vote that has drawn attention statewide, voters look like they will choose to retain all of the Supreme Court justices, unofficial results show.
With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, around 55 percent of voters have voted to retain Justices Carol A. Beier, Dan Biles, Lawton Nuss and Marla Luckert. The rejection of these four justices has been the subject of several ad campaigns.
One of the newest justices, Caleb Stegall, was excepted from some of the campaigns because he wasn't present for several of the court's contentious decisions, University professor Stephen Ware told the Kansan for a recent story. The results show 71 percent of voters choosing to retain him.
If the justices would have been rejected, Gov. Sam Brownback would get to appoint new justices from candidates put forth by a nominating committee.
One of the groups trying to oust the members of the court, Kansans for Justice, called the retention vote "a win for criminals and a loss for victims" in a statement, according to an Associated Press story.
3. Kansas legislature stays Republican but becomes
less conservative
Republicans retained their majorities in the Kansas Senate and House, though a few seats transferred to Democrats. A number of moderate Republicans who had ousted more extreme conservatives in the primaries also easily won their seats in the general election.
In the Senate, Democrats retained their eight seats (including three voted on by Douglas County voters) in the 40-person governing body and gained one. Democrat Lynn Rogers took the 25th District in Wichita with 58 percent of the vote, unofficial results show.
House Democrats picked up 12 seats to add to their power in the Senate, giving them 40 seats in the House, a third of the total 120 seats. As the Associated Press reported several of those seats were decided by issues such as school funding and discontent with Brownback.
In Johnson County, Democrat Cindy Holscher defeated Rep. Amanda Grosserode, who has headed up the House's subcommittee on school funding. The AP reported that Holscher's biggest campaign point was attacking Brownback's policies.
Democrat Brett Parker also won over an incumbent Republican in Johnson County. Parker, a teacher with endorsements from educational organizations, unseated Rep. Eric Todd, from Overland Park.
As the Wichita Eagle reported, all of these races were in addition to 14 moderate Republicans who unseated more extreme conservatives in August's primaries and officially won those seats in the general election.
4. Douglas County goes Democrat, sees good turnout
Although Kansas voted Republican in all national races, Douglas County voters chose Democrats across the board, unofficial results show.
62 percent of Douglas County's vote went to Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and 30 percent went to President-Elect Donald Trump. Statewide, Trump had 57 percent of the vote.
For the U.S. Senate 60 percent of Douglas County voters went for Democratic candidate and Lawrence-native Patrick Wiesner over incumbent Republican Jerry Moran, percentages that were nearly flipped statewide.
Kansas' House of Representatives seat went to incumbent Lynn Jenkins with 61 percent of the state's vote. However, Douglas County voters chose challenging Democrat Brittani Potter with 52 percent of the vote.
"The oceans are warmer, the atmosphere is warmer, but the weather still occurs," Braaten said. "So you still get cold periods, and warm periods, and storms and nice, sunny days. When you look
According to the county's election archives this year's turnout for the county's polls was slightly better than the 2012 presidential election with 49,760 ballots, 61 percent of registered voters. However, in 2008, the last time the country was not voting on an incumbent president, more than 53,000 ballots were cast, making up about 64 percent of registered voters.
over that over a period of time, you see it's shifting, the types of experiences you have growing up are going to change.
"It's going to be different, and if you talk to the people across the state, that's what they
tell you 'it's changing,' it's this or that, or drier or colder, or whatever, but they've experienced things that on average are different than what they might have grown up with," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
These warmer temperatures can also be linked to global warming and greenhouse gasses, according to Braaten.
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