TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the primary election in Kansas (all times local):

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A Kansas state representative says it was a “day full of paradox” after winning the Republican primary for secretary of state exactly two years after his 10-year-old son was decapitated on a giant water slide.

Rep. Scott Schwab, of Olathe, says he and his family didn’t spend Tuesday “caring a whole lot about politics.” Schwab’s son, Caleb Schwab, died on Aug. 7, 2016, when his raft went airborne while he was riding the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Schwab said during his victory speech at an Overland Park hotel that he and his family would love to have Caleb on the stage with them. He said they “took a moment and said, ‘God, say hi to him for us.'”

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Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab, best known as the father of a boy who died in a Kansas City water park accident, has won the Republican primary for secretary of state.

Schwab prevailed in a five-person race Tuesday for the GOP nomination. He is the Kansas House speaker pro tem and has served 14 years in the Legislature.

His 10-year-old son, Caleb, was killed in August 2016 while riding on what was billed as the world’s tallest waterslide at the Schlitterbahn park in Kansas City, Kansas.

Schwab is from Olathe and will face Democrat Brian McClendon, a former Uber and Google executive from Lawrence.

The GOP hasn’t lost a secretary of state’s race since 1948.

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