Topeka ? Democratic Rep. Dennis Moore won re-election Tuesday by defeating Republican challenger Kris Kobach in GOP-leaning Kansas City suburbs.

Moore had 53 percent of the vote with 93 percent of the 3rd District’s precincts reporting, including all precincts in Johnson County, where Republicans were dominant. Kobach had 46 percent, and two other candidates split the remaining vote.

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Kobach had waged an aggressive campaign and the race was considered the state’s most competitive congressional contest.

But Moore’s supporters had questioned whether Kobach relied too much on turning out fellow conservative Republicans and not enough on appealing to moderates. Moore, the only Kansas Democrat in Congress, carried Johnson County by nearly 5,400 votes out of about 248,000 cast.

In the other congressional races, two Republicans, Sen. Sam Brownback and Rep. Jerry Moran, won easily, and two others, Reps. Jim Ryun and Todd Tiahrt, led.

In the Senate race, Brownback had 67 percent of the vote with 42 percent of precincts statewide reporting. Democrat Lee Jones had 30 percent, with two minor party candidates splitting the rest. Jones had struggled to raise money and gain statewide visibility.

Moran had 91 percent of the vote with 27 percent of precincts reporting in the 1st District of western Kansas. His only opponent was Libertarian Jack Warner, of Wright.

Meanwhile, in the 2nd District of eastern Kansas, Ryun had 54 percent of the vote with nearly half of precincts reporting. Democrat Nancy Boyda had 43 percent and Libertarian Dennis Hawver, 3 percent.

In the 4th Congressional District of south-central Kansas, Republican Todd Tiahrt, of Goddard, seeking a sixth term, had 70 percent of the vote in early returns, compared with 28 percent for Democrat Michael Kinard, president of the Wichita school board.