Kansas's 4th congressional district special election, 2017

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Nominee	Ron Estes	James Thompson
Party	Republican	Democratic
Popular vote	63,505	55,310
Percentage	52.5%	45.7%

Results by county

Estes

50-59%

60-69%

70-79%

80-89%

Thompson

50-59%

U.S. Representative before election

Mike Pompeo
Republican

Elected U.S. Representative

Ron Estes
Republican

Estes

Thompson

Mike Pompeo
Republican

Ron Estes
Republican

A special election was held on April 11, 2017, to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 4th congressional district after the incumbent, Mike Pompeo, was nominated by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and confirmed by the United States Senate.

Pompeo resigned on January 23, 2017. Governor Sam Brownback had five days to declare a special election to be held between 45 and 60 days after being called. The day following Pompeo's resignation, Brownback declared a special election to take place on April 11.

Nominees for each party were selected by a district convention of party activists. Independent candidates were eligible to gain ballot access upon submitting 3,000 signatures within the first 25 days after the election was called.

Although not initially expected to be a close race, the NRCC spent $100,000 on advertising in the last week of the campaign, and Republican luminaries such as Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, President Donald Trump, and Vice President Mike Pence recorded robocalls or campaigned in person supporting their nominee Ron Estes. On April 10, the Cook Political Report moved the rating of the district to Lean Republican. Estes won the election.

The Republican Party selected a nominee at a convention held on February 9, 2017.

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