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The contest for Kansas governor remained too close to call late Tuesday night, as votes continued to be counted.

As of early Wednesday morning, the Associated Press had not declared a winner between Democrat Cindy Holscher, an Overland Park state senator, and Ty Masterson, the Kansas Senate President from the Wichita suburbs.

With nearly all precincts statewide counted, the Kansas Secretary of State’s office showed Holscher with a narrow lead, 546,523 votes to Masterson’s 540,651.

Holscher, an Overland Park Democrat, was first elected to the Kansas House in 2016 and then was elected to the Kansas Senate in 2020.

She won an all-Johnson County primary in August by defeating fellow state Sen. Ethan Corson of Fairway, who had Gov. Laura Kelly’s endorsement, and late-entering Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog.

Holscher tapped Wichita-area Kansas House member KC Ohaebosim as her lieutenant governor running mate.

Masterson, a Republican from the Wichita suburb of Andover, has been in the Kansas Legislature for the past two decades and has served as Senate President since 2021.

He won a seven-candidate primary field, propelled by the endorsement of President Donald Trump. He chose fellow GOP state Senator Jeff Klemp of Lansing as his lieutenant governor.

Following the primary, the race to replace the term-limited Kelly was rated as “lean Republican” by multiple national forecasters, though the race seemed to tighten in its closing weeks, with the Cook Political Report reclassifying the race as “toss-up.”

Kansas has not elected a Republican governor since Sam Brownback in 2014, and Brownback’s legacy played a key role in the campaign.

Holscher repeated the point that she was part of the bipartisan legislative coalition in 2017 that voted to repeal Brownback’s 2012 income tax cuts, over Masterson’s opposition. She argued that Masterson would bring that tax policy back, though Masterson called ads making that link a lie.

Both candidates promised property tax relief, though they would go about it in different ways.

Masterson supports capping property tax growth through a “Homeowners Bill of Rights” that would cap increases in assessed valuations.

Holscher wants to cut the residential assessment rate from 11.5% to 9% and has argued homeowners’ tax bills are high, in part, because of underfunded special education, putting more pressure on local school districts to keep their tax rates up.

Trump rallied for Masterson, along with U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, in the Wichita area in October.

Both candidates campaigned in Johnson County on Monday, with Masterson speaking to supporters in Lenexa and Holscher appearing, also in Lenexa, with Gov. Kelly and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear.