Kansas

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In Kansas, a Republican stronghold, the state’s six electoral votes were never seriously in doubt, with Mitt Romney winning by a wide 22-percentage point margin.

Republicans kept all four Congressional seats. Underscoring Kansas’s partisan reliability, Representative Kevin Yoder, who in 2010 won what had been a Democratic seat, won re-election without a Democratic challenger despite a scandal.

Republican leaders rebuked Mr. Yoder for having skinny-dipped in the Sea of Galilee during an official trip to Israel last summer with several House Republican freshmen. Mr. Yoder, who had earlier received attention for refusing a drunken-driving test, later apologized for “a momentary lapse in judgment.”

Meanwhile, in the Kansas Legislature, already controlled by Republicans, the state saw a primary season fraught with conflict between the party’s conservative and more moderate factions. Many moderates were unseated during the primaries, which is likely to shift the ideological composition of the body and remove what had been a block for conservative legislation.