Republicans have held onto the Kansas 4th Congressional District in the special election to replace CIA Director Mike Pompeo, but not by an overwhelming margin.

Republican state treasurer Ron Estes beat Democrat James Thompson by a 7 percentage point margin. Estes lost Sedgwick County, which includes Wichita and its suburbs and cast 68 percent of the district’s votes, by just 2 points. But he won by carrying the remaining counties (besides Pawnee County, which cast exactly 62 votes and which I did not count in any of the comparisons below) by a 26-point margin.