Voters in the 17th Kansas Senate District have sent Jeff Longbine back to Topeka for another four-year term.

According to the unofficial results in Tuesday’s election, Longbine, a Republican incumbent, received 12,704 votes and Democratic challenger Susan Fowler 8,753 votes.

Longbine said he was grateful and thankful for the constitutents to put their confidence in him to go to Topeka for another four years. We’ve got a lot of work to do, and I’m ready to roll up my sleeves and go to work, and hopefully fix some problems.”

Dave Baker was the voter’s choice for the 68th District House seat, winning over Laura Blevins. That district includes a portion of Junction City.

The Geary County Attorney and 2nd District Geary County Commission races are still too close to call. A total of 72 federal service ballots have to be tabulated, and 663 provisional ballots reviewed before the results can be final. The federal service ballots should be handled quickly, but it will be Monday before the provisional ballots are reviewed by the Board of Canvassers ( Geary County Commission ).

According to the County Clerk’s Office 140 of the provisional ballots could apply in the 2nd District Geary County Commission race and all 663 provisional ballots could apply in the Geary County Attorney race.

46.18% of the registered voters went to the polls in Geary County on Tuesday.