1.   He went on to defeat the conservative Republican incumbent, James Buckley.

2.   Immediately after that decision, science groups and Kansas moderates promised to work to unseat Holloway and other conservative incumbents.

3.   In other races across the state, the conservative incumbent in Wichita lost to her moderate challenger, and in Salina the moderate candidate was leading the conservative.

4.   In those districts, moderate Republicans lost just less than a third of their re-election efforts, though only one-fifth of the conservative incumbents did so.

5.   The three conservative incumbents were originally appointed by Gov. John Engler, also a Republican, to fill vacancies.

6.   Derek Spencer, the Conservative incumbent, has shunned meetings organized by gay activists.

7.   Many leaflets suggested ways of voting for Chirac, but at the same time registering opposition to the conservative incumbent.