In the 17th district, Republican Luann Ridgeway defeated Democrat Philip Willoughby by nearly 5,000 votes with 83,252 cast in the contest, a margin of 5.6 percent.
Rep. Philip Willoughby, D-Gladstone, is running for an open state Senate seat. He said the decision is indirectly related to term limits since the seat would not be open without term limits. Willoughby said he would not have run against Sen. Ed Quick, D-Liberty, who currently holds the seat. Instead he would have run for another House term.
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