{"id":4061,"date":"2026-11-03T20:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T02:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2026-11-03T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T04:40:31","slug":"live-student-pov-missouri-and-kansas-election-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/11\/03\/live-student-pov-missouri-and-kansas-election-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Student POV: Missouri and Kansas Election Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Design by: Athena Gonzalez<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Johnson County Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:39 p.m. County Commission Chairman: Mike Kelly with 153,121 votes has won over Karen Crnkovich with 114,933.<\/p>\n

10:20 p.m. According to AP, Senate<\/a>: Johnson County has voted Hamilton. Governor<\/a>: Johnson County has voted Holscher.<\/p>\n

10:00 p.m. Senate: 98% of votes have been counted with Hamilton in the lead. Governor: 97% of votes have been counted with Holscher in the lead.<\/p>\n

9:36 p.m. County Commission Chairman: Mike Kelly is in the lead with 152, 940 votes with Karen Crnkovich at 114,765 votes.<\/p>\n

9:12 p.m. Davids has won the House with 198,415 votes according to AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

9:06 p.m. House 3rd District: 82% of votes counted. Sharice L. Davids has 174,786 votes with Eric Jenkins at 104,537. Senator: 83% of votes have been counted with Hamilton in the lead. Governor: 83% of votes have been counted with Holscher in the lead.<\/p>\n

8:33 p.m. Senator: 71% of Johnson County votes have been counted with Adam Hamilton in the lead.\u00a0Governor: 51% of Johnson County votes have been counted with Cindy Holscher in the lead.<\/p>\n

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Kansas Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:25 p.m. According to AP<\/a>, Adam Hamilton has won the Senate. According to the Johnson County Post<\/a>, Adam Hamilton is the first Democratic Senator to be elected in Kansas since 1932.<\/p>\n

10:08 pm Another of the senate races that people have connected to the Kansas race is Texas. Democrat James Talarico has won in a major upset according to AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10:00 p.m. Senate: 84% of votes have been counted. Hamilton is still in the lead with 529,627 votes with Marshall at 448,148. Governor: 84% of the votes have been counted. Holscher is in the lead with 519,085 votes with Masterson at 482,186.<\/p>\n

9:45 p.m. One of the senate races that people have connected to the Kansas race is South Carolina. Democrat Annie Andrew has won in a major upset according to AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

9:04 p.m. Senator: 62% of votes have been counted. Hamilton has 422,501 votes with Marshall at 310,017. Governor: 63% of votes have been counted. Holscher is at 417,081 with Masterson at 334,259.\u00a0 This is looking like a historical night.<\/p>\n

8:21 p.m. Governor: Cindy Holscher has 299, 783 votes with Ty Masterson at 197,580. 40% of the votes have been counted.<\/p>\n

8:04 p.m. Senator: Adam Hamilton has 279,861 votes with Roger Marshall at 156,888. 36% of votes have been counted.<\/p>\n

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Missouri Results<\/strong><\/p>\n

10:31 p.m. According to AP News<\/a>, Amendment 3 has failed.<\/p>\n

10:05 p.m. According to AP News<\/a>, Proposition A has not passed.<\/p>\n

9:14 p.m. According to AP News<\/a>, 57% of votes are counted and “No” on Amendment 3 is leading with 739,292 votes. “No” on Proposition A<\/a> leads with 808,063 votes.<\/p>\n

8:09 p.m. Tonight we will be following the results of Proposition A in Missouri. According to AP News “This referendum initiative asks Missouri voters whether to adopt new U.S. House districts passed by state lawmakers in 2025,”<\/p>\n

8:07 p.m. Tonight we will be following the results of Amendment 3 in Missouri. According to AP News “This ballot measure will repeal the right to abortion until fetal viability and instead allow abortion only in cases of medical emergency, fetal anomaly, rape or incest up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. It also will ban gender-transition treatments and surgeries for minors,”<\/p>\n

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Design by: Athena Gonzalez Johnson County Results 10:39 p.m. County Commission Chairman: Mike Kelly with 153,121 votes has won over Karen Crnkovich with 114,933. 10:20 p.m. According to AP, Senate: Johnson County has voted Hamilton. Governor: Johnson County has voted Holscher. 10:00 p.m. Senate: 98% of votes have been counted with Hamilton in the lead. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000,"featured_media":4051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[124,332,321],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Messenger Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/11\/Political-Ads-Thumbnail-300x200.png","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mhumph18\/","display_name":"Messenger Staff"},{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/mya-roberts\/","display_name":"Mya Roberts"},{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sammie-magee\/","display_name":"Sammie Magee"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 hours ago","modified":"Updated 7 hours ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 3, 2026","modified":"Updated on November 3, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 3, 2026 8:06 pm","modified":"Updated on November 3, 2026 10:40 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":124,"user_id":1000,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhumph18","display_name":"Messenger Staff","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1d550cfefcbdb3d51b5ca80ce32ea21defada2724e3cd6d8373f27c880e25be9?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"Messenger","last_name":"Staff","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""},{"term_id":332,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"mya-roberts","display_name":"Mya Roberts","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""},{"term_id":321,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"sammie-magee","display_name":"Sammie Magee","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/11\/Political-Ads-Thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}