Hourly updates on the presidential, senate, house and state representative races.

Daniel Steck | Web Producer

9:30 a.m., Nov. 6 – Final Update:

First and foremost – thanks to everyone that engaged with KUJH’s content this election cycle! While our first mission is teaching student journalists, making content that matters is what keeps us going, so thank you all for being a part of that process!

It’s 9:30 a.m., the day after polls close, and we have an electoral winner;

Republican candidate Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election, securing 277 electoral votes at the time of writing this. Kamala Harris (D) secured 224 electoral votes in the same time.

While a few states are still tabulating, the margins for a Harris victory simply aren’t there, with statistics from the Washington Post indicating a nation-wide county-by-county shift towards the right this election cycle.

The Kansas house races fell as we predicted last night;

• KS-01: Tracy Mann (R)

• KS-02: Derek Schmidt (R)

• KS-03: Sharice Davids (D)

• KS-04: Ron Estes (R)

For more results, check our previous coverage below or check the Associated Press for the most recent updates.

KUJH will be live with a post-election show Thursday at 11:30 a.m. Tune in to the Media Crossroads YouTube channel to watch!

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10:30 p.m. – Update 6:

While the total vote is yet to be counted, the AP has called Kansas for Trump (R) by roughly 12 percentage points.

Three of the four House races in Kansas have been called, with the fourth not looking especially close;

• KS-01: Tracy Mann (R) – 67.2%, called by AP

• KS-02: Derek Schmidt (R) – 55.2%, called by NBC News

• KS-03: Sharice Davids (D) – 54.2%, called by NBC News

• KS-04: Ron Estes (R) leads with 56.9%, with 65% of the vote reported.

In Douglas County, all four Democratic candidates won their respective races for County Commission.

Additionally, Loomis (D) won the race for Douglas County District Attorney, with 64.12% of the total vote.

In Lawrence, Question 1 proposing a new city governance model failed by about two percentage points.

Question 2, regarding an increased sales tax to fund homeless aid programs, passed by about 6.7 percentage points.

As polls close on the West Coast, California, Oregon and Washington have all been called for Harris (D). This narrows the electoral gap, but remaining votes could take a while to be counted, as in 2020.

For a full list of AP state calls, visit their site!

KUJH will provide another update in the morning, but as of now, Trump (R) leads the electoral race 230-187, with votes still being counted in a handful of states.

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9:30 p.m. – Update 5:

Big changes to both KS-02 and the presidential tallies here in Kansas;

Schmidt (R) now leads Boyda (D) by roughly 7,000 votes with around 50% of the vote reported. Notably, Boyda only leads Douglas County by 50 votes as of 8:57 p.m.

Trump (R) now leads Harris (D) by roughly 12,000 votes with around 45% of the vote reported.

The AP has officially called Texas for Trump as well; with 64.6% of the vote reported, the former president leads by nearly one million votes.

KS-01 and KS-04’s races are all but won, with both republican candidates currently holding over 60% of their race’s vote.

Davids (D) still leads KS-03 with 54.6% of the vote; NBC News projects the incumbent to reclaim her house seat.

In the race for Douglas County District Attorney, Loomis (D) still has the lead with 32,734 votes (65.30%); Mike Warner holds 17,336 votes (34.58%), with 62.7% of the county precinct reporting.

In the race for Douglas County Commission, democrats still lead every race with now 62.7% of the precinct vote reported.

On the ballot in Lawrence, voters thus far are rejecting the proposed change of city governance organization; with 62.7% of the vote reporting, Question 1 is losing by about two percentage points.

The other question on the ballot, relating to increased sales tax to fund homeless aid programs, is passing so far; with the same 62.7% of the vote, Question 2 is winning by about seven percentage points.

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8:30 p.m. – Update 4:

Kansas results are starting to come in, with Douglas County reporting its current results for District Attorney.

Dakota Loomis (D) currently leads with 20,970 votes (67.47%); Mike Warner holds 10,085 votes (32.45%), with 38.7% of the county reporting votes.

In the race for Douglas County Commission, democrats lead every race with the same 38.7% of the vote reported.

One of our key races, Kansas’s Second Congressional District, has Nancy Boyda (D) leading Derek Schmidt (R) by approximately 3,000 votes, with 42% of the vote reported.

In another key race, Kansas’s Third Congressional District, Incumbent Sharice Davids (D) leads Prasanth Reddy (R) by just under 16 percentage points with 60% of the district reported. 

Kansas’s presidential reports currently have Harris (D) leading Trump (R) by nearly 20,000 votes, with just over 40% of the vote reported.

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7:30 p.m. – Update 3:

While Kansas polls close and results trickle in, we know the results from the state’s relatively large number of uncontested statehouse races;

As of 7:30 p.m., Kansas has no decided contested races.

Trump (R) holds early leads in Tennessee, West Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi and Oklahoma — all states the former president was projected to win. Trump also holds a significant lead in Florida, with nearly 90% of the vote reported.

Harris (D) still holds her early lead in Vermont, now with over 30% of the vote reported.

Harris also holds new leads in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with all of these states reporting less than 3% of the vote.

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6:30 p.m. – Update 2:

With 30 minutes until poll lines close, Kansas is still reporting 0% of the vote.

Around the country, Trump (R) has conclusive leads in both Indiana and Kentucky, with 15% and 10% of the vote estimated respectively. Harris (D) leads conclusively in Vermont with an estimated 1% reported.

Trump also holds a small margin in Georgia, with about 3% of the vote reported.

Check back in at 7:30 p.m., where we hope to have updates on the Kansas races following polls closing.

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5:30 p.m. – Update 1:

Lines for voting close at 7 p.m., with 0% of the vote likely reported prior.

Key state races include Kansas’s Second Congressional District, where would-be incumbent Jake LaTurner decided to not run again; Nancy Boyda (D) now faces former Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt (R).

Another race to watch will be in Kansas’s Third Congressional District, where incumbent Rep. Sharice Davids (D) is running against Prasanth Reddy (R); KS-03 was redistricted to include more rural areas in 2021, making Davids’s 2022 race closer than her 2020 margin.

Early voting also could be a factor in this election, with over 650,000 votes cast via either mail-in or early in-person voting.

0% of the vote is reported yet, but 33% of those approximate 650,000 early votes were cast by registered democrats and 51% by registered republicans, according to public voter registration statistics.

KUJH is providing live coverage of the 2024 Election, both via live broadcast and in hourly online updates.

To watch the live broadcast, starting at 6 p.m. CDT, visit the Media Crossroads Youtube Channel.

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