Incumbent Sharice Davids (D) defeated Amanda Adkins (R) and Steve Hohe (L) in the November 8, 2022, general election for Kansas' 3rd Congressional District.

This race was a rematch of the 2020 general election, when Davids defeated Adkins 53.6% to 43.6%. Hohe also ran that year and received 2.8% of the vote. Davids was first elected in 2018, when she defeated then-incumbent Rep. Kevin Yoder (R) 53.6% to 43.9%. Yoder had been in office since 2011.

The Kansas City Star's Daniel Desrochers said, "After Adkins lost to Democratic Rep. Sharice Davids by 10 percentage points in 2020, the Republican-controlled Legislature redrew the district. ... [It] went from one Democrats won in the presidential race in both 2016 and 2020 to boundaries that former President Donald Trump would have won in 2016 and President Joe Biden would have narrowly flipped four years later."^[1]

The Cook Political Report’s PVI (Partisan Voting Index)^[2] for the old district was D+2, while the score for the redrawn district was R+1.^[3] President Joe Biden (D) would have carried the redrawn district in 2020 with 51.2% of the vote to former President Donald Trump's (R) 46.7%, while Trump would have carried it in 2018 with 48.2% of the vote to Hillary Clinton's 42.9%. To view a comparison of the old and new district maps, click here.

Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, worked as a lawyer and nonprofit executive serving Native American communities before coming into office.^[4] Davids was one of the first two Native American women elected to Congress, alongside former Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.), and was the first openly lesbian Native American elected to Congress.^[5]

Adkins was a former congressional staffer who served as chairwoman of the Kansas Republican Party from 2009 to 2013. Adkins also served on the executive committee of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce and was a vice-president at the Cerner Corporation for 11 years. ^[6]^[7]

Davids focused on economic issues and said her willingness to work with Republicans on bipartisan legislation would help bring manufacturing jobs to Kansans. “I worked with both parties to boost manufacturing right here in America,” Davids said. "From health care to infrastructure to agriculture, I’ll work with anyone, regardless of party, to do what’s best for Kansas.”^[8]^[9] Davids also highlighted her support for abortion rights. "My position is clear: I believe people have a right to make their own health care decisions, not the government, and I have stood up against extreme politicians who want to take away that right,” Davids said.^[10]

Adkins said Davids' voting record was too aligned with the Biden administration and did not reflect the will of Davids' constituents.^[11] Adkins also said the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a measure Davids voted for, was responsible for the increase in inflation in 2022. Adkins said, "Paying more for goods and services? Thank Sharice Davids, who voted for the $1.9 trillion spending bill that has fueled inflation to a 40-year high."^[12] Adkins also focused on immigration and said she supported building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.^[13]

The outcome of this race affected the partisan balance of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 118th Congress. All 435 House districts were up for election.

Republicans won a 222-213 majority in the U.S. House in 2022.

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Candidates and election results

General election

General election for U.S. House Kansas District 3

Incumbent Sharice Davids defeated Amanda Adkins and Steve Hohe in the general election for U.S. House Kansas District 3 on November 8, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Sharice Davids (D)	54.9	165,527
	Amanda Adkins (R)	42.8	128,839
	Steve Hohe (L)	2.3	6,928

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 301,294
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Kansas District 3

Incumbent Sharice Davids advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Kansas District 3 on August 2, 2022.

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Sharice Davids	100.0	103,945

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 103,945
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Kansas District 3

Amanda Adkins defeated John McCaughrean in the Republican primary for U.S. House Kansas District 3 on August 2, 2022.

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Amanda Adkins	77.2	96,896
	John McCaughrean	22.8	28,573

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 125,469
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Mark Tallent (R)

Libertarian convention

Libertarian convention for U.S. House Kansas District 3

Steve Hohe advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Kansas District 3 on April 23, 2022.

		Candidate
✔		Steve Hohe (L)

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Voting information

See also: Voting in Kansas

Election information in Kansas: Nov. 8, 2022, election.

What was the voter registration deadline?

In-person: Oct. 18, 2022
By mail: Postmarked by Oct. 18, 2022
Online: Oct. 18, 2022

Was absentee/mail-in voting available to all voters?

N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot request deadline?

In-person: Nov. 1, 2022
By mail: Received by Nov. 1, 2022
Online: N/A

What was the absentee/mail-in ballot return deadline?

In-person: Nov. 8, 2022
By mail: Postmarked by Nov. 8, 2022

Was early voting available to all voters?

Yes

What were the early voting start and end dates?

Oct. 19, 2022 to Nov. 7, 2022

Were all voters required to present ID at the polls? If so, was a photo or non-photo ID required?

N/A

When were polls open on Election Day?

N/A

Candidate comparison

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Sharice Davids

Party: Democratic Party

Incumbent: Yes

Political Office:

Kansas 3rd Congressional District (Assumed office: 2019)

Biography: Davids received an associate degree from Johnson County Community College, a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Missouri, and a law degree from Cornell University. She worked as a White House Fellow in the Department of Transportation, as chair of the board of directors of Twelve Clans, Inc., and as deputy director for the Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation. She also worked as director of economic development at Red Cloud Indian School and as a counsel at Ceiba Legal.

Key Messages

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Davids said she supported abortion rights and opposed the 2022 measure that would have amended the Kansas state constitution to provide that nothing in the constitution creates a right to abortion. "My position is clear: I believe people have a right to make their own health care decisions, not the government, and I have stood up against extreme politicians who want to take away that right [...] Those are the facts, and that is the choice that voters face this November," Davids said.

Davids said her willingness to work with Republicans on bipartisan legislation helped Kansans. “I worked with both parties to boost manufacturing right here in America,” Davids said. "From health care to infrastructure to agriculture, I’ll work with anyone, regardless of party, to do what’s best for Kansas. We need more of that in Congress," she added.

Davids said she favored bringing more manufacturing from China back to the United States and said she worked towards strengthening the country's domestic supply chain. "I’ll never stop standing up to China and fighting for Kansas manufacturers,” Davids said.

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Sources: YouTube, "Sharice for Congress - Crazy," August 18, 2022; Sharice Davids, "SHARICE FOR CONGRESS RELEASES NEW AD: ‘BIG’," September 2, 2022; Twitter, "Sharice Davids," August 12, 2022; Sharice Davids,"ICYMI: AMANDA ADKINS TRIES TO HIDE HER LONG-HELD ANTI-ABORTION POSITION," accessed September 11, 2022]; U.S. Department of Transportation, "2017 DOT Civil Rights Virtual Symposium Speaker Bios - Session 2, accessed September 7, 2022; Directory of the United States Congress, "DAVIDS, Sharice," accessed September 7, 2022; LinkedIn, "Sharice Davids," accessed September 7, 2022

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Kansas District 3 in 2022.

Amanda Adkins

Party: Republican Party

Incumbent: No

Biography: Adkins received a bachelor's degree in human biology and anthropology from the University of Kansas. After graduating, she worked as a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate and as a professional staffer in the U.S. House. Adkins was a vice president for the Cerner Corporation from 2008 to 2020 and served on the executive committee of the Kansas Chamber of Commerce. She served as chairwoman of the Kansas Republican Party from 2009 to 2013.

Key Messages

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Adkins said Davids' congressional voting record was too aligned with the Biden administration and the House Democratic leadership. “Sharice Davids has answered to Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi time and time again instead of her constituents in Kansas,” Adkins said.

Adkins criticized Davids for voting in favor of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a measure Adkins said helped fuel inflation. Adkins said, "Paying more for goods and services? Thank Sharice Davids, who voted for the $1.9 trillion spending bill that has fueled inflation to a 40-year high."

Adkins said she supported building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and empowering U.S. border agents "to combat crime and illegal entries through increased investments in surveillance technology." Adkins said she also supported defunding sanctuary cities and developing a workforce plan that considered "the needs of immigrants, the requirements of industries with a growing workforce and/or unmet workforce needs, and the readiness of communities across the United States to support those immigrants."

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Sources: Amanda Adkins, "Defending America’s Borders and Advancing Our Workforce," accessed September 7, 2022; Facebook, "Amanda Adkins for Congress," September 7, 2022; Amanda Adkins, "Adkins Releases New TV Ad: “Nice Job, Sharice”," August 24, 2022; LinkedIn, "Amanda Adkins," accessed September 7, 2022; Amanda Adkins, "Amanda L. Adkins," accessed September 11, 2022

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Kansas District 3 in 2022.

Steve Hohe

Party: Libertarian Party

Incumbent: No

Submitted Biography: "Lived in Kansas City Missouri before joining the Military (USAF), and served for 11 years, mainly in the Strategic Air Command, involved in Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Left the Air Force moved to Kansas and lived in Shawnee for over 25 years. I have two degrees, a Bachelor of Science/Business Administration and an Associate's Degree in Logistics. Consider myself Middle-Class, once owned two businesses. I'm married and have two kids, and I'm Homeowner. Ran for office, once as a State Representative and twice for the U.S. House of Representative Third Congressional District, 2016 and 2020. I would consider myself a Conservative, following the belief of Minimum Government-Maximum Freedom. In my off time, I'm an Outdoorsman, I enjoy Trekking, Hiking Camping, Fly-fishing, and Gun Sports. One of the areas I'm intrigued by in Business is Economics, I believe in a Free Market system not interfered with by Governance."

Key Messages

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The Need for a smaller Federal Government, focusing on eliminating or decrease spending of Branches, Offices and Programs targeting on reducing the National Debt.

Abolishing the present Income Tax System, a complex 7000 pages of loop holes and special interest handouts, so confusing that even the author, the IRS, along with tax preparers and citizens cant even fathom. Its time to replace it with a different taxation system which is fair across the board both with rich and poor, small businesses and corporations, providing pre-bates to those near or under the Poverty Level.

Congress needs to be in session more than the average of 111 days out of the year, listening with each other their constituents and not from outside sources in Washington D.C.. I would promote a Per-Session Payment system that of your annual salary you only get paid if you're if congress is in session and at home in a town hall, in-person, listening to their constituents.

This information was current as of the candidate's run for U.S. House Kansas District 3 in 2022.

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Race ratings: Kansas' 3rd Congressional District election, 2022
Race tracker	Race ratings
	November 8, 2022	November 1, 2022	October 25, 2022	October 18, 2022
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter	Lean Democratic	Lean Democratic	Lean Democratic	Toss-up
Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic	Tilt Democratic
Larry J. Sabato's Crystal Ball	Lean Democratic	Toss-up	Toss-up	Toss-up
Note: Ballotpedia reviews external race ratings every week throughout the election season and posts weekly updates even if the media outlets have not revised their ratings during that week.

U.S. Congress campaign reporting schedule, 2022
Report	Close of books	Filing deadline
Year-end 2021	12/31/2021	1/31/2022
April quarterly	3/31/2022	4/15/2022
July quarterly	6/30/2022	7/15/2022
October quarterly	9/30/2022	10/15/2022
Pre-general	10/19/2022	10/27/2022
Post-general	11/28/2022	12/08/2022
Year-end 2022	12/31/2022	1/31/2023

Name	Party	Receipts*	Disbursements**	Cash on hand	Date
Sharice Davids	Democratic Party	$7,894,096	$8,309,623	$63,623	As of December 31, 2022
Amanda Adkins	Republican Party	$3,854,561	$3,869,766	$27,504	As of December 31, 2022
Steve Hohe	Libertarian Party	$0	$0	$0	Data not available***
Source: Federal Elections Commission, "Campaign finance data," 2022. This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC). * According to the FEC, "Receipts are anything of value (money, goods, services or property) received by a political committee." According to the FEC, a disbursement "is a purchase, payment, distribution, loan, advance, deposit or gift of money or anything of value to influence a federal election," plus other kinds of payments not made to influence a federal election. * Candidate either did not report any receipts or disbursements to the FEC, or Ballotpedia did not find an FEC candidate ID.

2020 presidential results by Congressional district, Kansas
District	2022 district		Political predecessor district
District	Joe Biden	Donald Trump	Joe Biden	Donald Trump
Kansas' 1st	34.1%	63.7%	28.1%	69.7%
Kansas' 2nd	40.7%	57.0%	41.3%	56.3%
Kansas' 3rd	51.2%	46.7%	54.3%	43.7%
Kansas' 4th	38.0%	59.7%	38.0%	59.7%

Demographic Data for Kansas
	Kansas	United States
Population	2,853,118	308,745,538
Land area (sq mi)	81,758	3,531,905
Race and ethnicity**
White	84.4%	72.5%
Black/African American	5.9%	12.7%
Asian	2.9%	5.5%
Native American	0.8%	0.8%
Pacific Islander	0.1%	0.2%
Other (single race)	2.5%	4.9%
Multiple	3.5%	3.3%
Hispanic/Latino	11.9%	18%
Education
High school graduation rate	91%	88%
College graduation rate	33.4%	32.1%
Income
Median household income	$59,597	$62,843
Persons below poverty level	12%	13.4%
Source: population provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "Decennial Census" (2010). Other figures provided by U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2014-2019).
**Note: Percentages for race and ethnicity may add up to more than 100 percent because respondents may report more than one race and the Hispanic/Latino ethnicity may be selected in conjunction with any race. Read more about race and ethnicity in the census here.

Congressional Partisan Breakdown from Kansas, November 2022
Party	U.S. Senate	U.S. House	Total
Democratic	0	1	1
Republican	2	3	5
Independent	0	0	0
Vacancies	0	0	0
Total	2	4	6

State executive officials in Kansas, November 2022
Office	Officeholder
Governor	Laura Kelly
Lieutenant Governor	David Toland
Secretary of State	Scott Schwab
Attorney General	Derek Schmidt

Year	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Governor	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	D	D	D	D
Senate	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R
House	D	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R	R

Filing requirements for U.S. House candidates, 2022
State	Office	Party	Signatures required	Filing fee	Filing deadline	Source
Kansas	U.S. House	Ballot-qualified party	2% of the party's total voter registration in the district	$1,760.00	6/1/2022	Source
Kansas	U.S. House	Unaffiliated	4% of registered voters in the district, or 5,000, whichever is less	$20.00	8/1/2022	Source

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 410,418
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		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Amanda Adkins	30.6	29,082
		Sara Hart Weir	23.0	21,833
		Adrienne Vallejo Foster	20.1	19,057
		Mike Beehler	19.4	18,399
	Submit photo	Tom Love	6.9	6,533

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Sharice Davids (D)	53.6	170,518
	Kevin Yoder (R)	43.9	139,762
	Chris Clemmons (L)	2.5	8,021

	Candidate	%	Votes
✔	Sharice Davids	37.3	23,379
	Brent Welder	33.8	21,190
	Tom Niermann	14.3	8,939
	Mike McCamon	7.0	4,354
	Sylvia Williams	4.7	2,955
	Jay Sidie	2.9	1,790

		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Kevin Yoder	68.1	53,130
		Trevor Keegan	18.7	14,574
	Submit photo	Joe Myers	13.2	10,268

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 74,437
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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 94,904 (100.00% precincts reporting)
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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 318,301
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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 62,607
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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 77,972
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Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Kevin Yoder Incumbent	51.3%	176,022
	Democratic	Jay Sidie	40.6%	139,300
	Libertarian	Steve Hohe	8.1%	27,791
Total Votes				343,113
Source: Kansas Secretary of State

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Jay Sidie	41.5%	13,879
Nathaniel McLaughlin	36.2%	12,105
Reggie Marselus	22.2%	7,435
Total Votes		33,419
Source: Kansas Secretary of State

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kevin Yoder Incumbent	63.6%	37,681
Greg Goode	36.4%	21,563
Total Votes		59,244
Source: Kansas Secretary of State

Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Kevin Yoder Incumbent	60%	134,493
	Democratic	Kelly Kultala	40%	89,584
Total Votes				224,077
Source: Kansas Secretary of State Official Results

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Kelly Kultala	68.5%	14,189
Reginald Marselus	31.5%	6,524
Total Votes		20,713
Source: Kansas Secretary of State

Kansas' 3rd Congressional District election, 2022