The Winner

If you live in Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District, Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) will keep representing you after winning a fifth term. The Associated Press called the race for Davids at 9:08 p.m. Central time on election night, Tuesday, Nov. 3. ​

Davids has 201,050 votes (59.6%) to 129,537 (38.4%) for Republican Eric Jenkins, a margin of about 21 points, with an estimated 99% of votes counted, according to Associated Press election results. Libertarian Steve Hohe took 2.1%, and Davids returns to a House where Democrats will hold the majority.

The Race

Jenkins, an Army veteran, served on the Shawnee City Council from 2015 until he lost his reelection bid in 2023, and he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House in 2016 and 2018, according to KCUR’s election night report. In the Aug. 4 primaries, he beat Chase LaPorte with 78.7%, and Davids beat Sarah Preu with 83.4%, according to Ballotpedia’s race page. Cook Political Report and Inside Elections rated the race Solid Democratic, and Sabato’s Crystal Ball rated it Safe Democratic.

Davids’ margin roughly doubled from 2024, when she beat Republican Prasanth Reddy 53.4% to 42.6%. Republican legislative leaders pushed in 2025 and 2026 to redraw the map and split Johnson County to make the seat harder for Davids to hold, but they could not gather enough support to call a special session, according to the Kansas Reflector.

That left the 2022 map in place, so the district still includes all of Johnson County and the southern half of Wyandotte County, along with Miami, Franklin and Anderson counties. About 744,800 people live there, and residents are 78% white, 10.5% Hispanic, 4.9% Black and 4.6% Asian.

The median household income is $102,000, and the median age is 38.5. Of adults, 52.2% hold at least a bachelor’s degree, unemployment is 3.4% and 6.4% of residents live below the poverty line.

What’s Next

Davids’ new term begins Sunday, Jan. 3. Three days after the election, she urged House leaders to move quickly on bipartisan permitting reform to help bring down utility bills, while pressing negotiators to protect Tribal treaty rights, Tribal sovereignty and environmental safeguards, according to her office.

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