Kansas Voter Guide 2026

Cindy Holscher is the Democratic nominee for Kansas governor, a state senator from Johnson County and a former state representative. She took 49% of the August 4 Democratic vote even though Gov. Laura Kelly had endorsed a rival, per the Kansas Reflector. Her campaign platform, titled the Common Sense and Lower Costs Agenda, leads with the cost of living, a $16 state minimum wage, a cut to the residential property ass

Priorities: Lower the cost of living across health care, child care, groceries and gas · Support working families with a $16 state minimum wage and guaranteed paid sick time · Cut property taxes by lowering the residential assessment rate from 11.5% to 9%

Ty Masterson is the Republican nominee for Kansas governor and president of the Kansas Senate. A longtime legislator and small-business owner, he took 43% of the August 4 Republican vote in a seven-way field with President Trump's endorsement, per the Kansas Reflector. His campaign platform points to a $2 billion tax cut he helped lead and calls Kansas the 16th highest-taxed state; on election night he named property

Priorities: Cut taxes, with property taxes as the top target · Grow Kansas jobs and cut regulation · Increase public safety funding

Roger Marshall is Kansas's incumbent U.S. senator and the Republican nominee for re-election, taking about 79% of the August 4 Republican vote. A physician and former U.S. representative from western Kansas, he has built his Senate record around agriculture, rural health care, border security, energy, and Kansas aerospace and defense installations. His campaign site points to work on phosphate fertilizer costs, farm

Priorities: Support Kansas agriculture and lower farm input costs · Protect rural hospitals and reform prior authorization · Strengthen border security

Adam Hamilton is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas, winning about 36% of the vote in an eleven-way August 4 field. A fifth-generation Kansan, he started a church with four people at age 25 and served as a pastor for 36 years before running, per his campaign site. He calls his platform the Affordability Agenda and frames the campaign as listening to Kansans, solving an affordability and opportunity cris

Priorities: Lower energy bills and require data centers to pay their fair share · Protect Social Security and senior security · Make housing more affordable

Kris Kobach is Kansas's incumbent attorney general and the Republican nominee for re-election, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. A former Kansas secretary of state, his office has emphasized conservative litigation, immigration-related legal issues, public safety, consumer protection, and challenges to federal policy.

Priorities: Use the attorney general's office for conservative litigation · Strengthen public safety and criminal enforcement · Challenge federal policy and defend state authority

Chris Mann is the Democratic nominee for Kansas attorney general, unopposed on the August 4 ballot, and was the party's 2022 nominee for the office. He became a police officer at 21 and left the job after a career-ending injury caused by a drunk driver in 2002, then prosecuted cases for the Wyandotte County district attorney; he has chaired the national board of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. His platform page leads

Priorities: Resource local prosecutors and small law-enforcement agencies · Recruit and retain officers, including PTSD workers' compensation coverage for first responders · Fight consumer fraud, which cost Kansans about $70 million in 2025

Pat Proctor is the Republican nominee for Kansas secretary of state, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. A retired Army officer who served roughly three decades including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has represented Kansas House District 41 since 2020, chairs the House Elections Committee, teaches at Wichita State University and co-owns a Thai restaurant in Leavenworth. Per local election reporting, he wants Elect

Priorities: Make Election Day the final ballot deadline, per local election reporting · Maintain voter rolls and citizen-only voting, per local election reporting · Limit third-party ballot collection, per local election reporting

Jennifer Day is the Democratic nominee for Kansas secretary of state, a Mission businesswoman and former state representative from House District 48. She won the August 4 Democratic contest, which the Associated Press called at 8:25 p.m. She has been endorsed by Gov. Laura Kelly. Since the election she has called for expanding Kansas's advance-voting window, which at 20 days she describes as the shortest in the count

Priorities: Keep election systems accurate and free from political influence by working with county election officials · Study higher-turnout states and remove barriers to voting · Expand the 20-day advance-voting window and keep the mail-ballot grace period

Scott Morgan of Lawrence is running for Kansas secretary of state under the banner of United Kansas, a new party positioning itself as a moderate alternative, per the Kansas Reflector. No campaign site or platform page has been located for him, so no policy positions are listed here.

Steven Johnson is Kansas's incumbent state treasurer and the Republican nominee for re-election, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. The treasurer's office manages state cash, investments, unclaimed property, and the state's college-savings programs. In announcing his re-election bid he pointed to a state sweep account that generated $9.9 million in interest in its first full fiscal year, and to financial-literacy and

Priorities: Safeguard state cash and grow investment returns on more than $50 billion under management · Return unclaimed property and improve treasury services · Expand financial-literacy and adoption savings account programs

Juan C. Luengo is the Democratic nominee for Kansas state treasurer, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He is the CEO of Engage Insurance Group, where he diversified a single-carrier business into a multi-carrier brokerage operating in six states, per his campaign site, and he serves on the boards of Mental Health America of the Heartland and The Builders' Association. His bilingual campaign site organizes his platfor

Priorities: Expand the Kansas 529 plan to cover trades and apprenticeships as well as four-year colleges · Create linked-deposit programs through Kansas banks and credit unions to cut small-business borrowing costs · Convene a nonpartisan Kansas Economic Council to advise on public investment

Daniel Hawkins is the Republican nominee for Kansas insurance commissioner and the speaker of the Kansas House, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He served in the Kansas Army National Guard, has worked in employee benefits since 1995, and has represented the 100th House District since 2013. His campaign site says he would cut regulatory barriers that keep carriers out of Kansas and make the insurance department, in h

Priorities: Lower insurance costs by attracting more carriers to Kansas · Cut red tape and improve department service · Protect Kansans from insurance and securities fraud that raises everyone's rates

Dinah Sykes is the Democratic nominee for Kansas insurance commissioner and the Kansas Senate minority leader, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. She entered politics as a Republican and switched parties in December 2018. Her campaign site carries endorsements from both of the state's two most recent former insurance commissioners, Sandy Praeger and Kathleen Sebelius. In a July 2026 trade-press questionnaire she said

Priorities: Promote competition to keep coverage affordable · Stand up for policyholders when claims are wrongfully denied or delayed · Extend transparency requirements to insurers' use of artificial intelligence

Ric Koehn is the Libertarian nominee for Kansas insurance commissioner and will appear on the November 3 ballot alongside Daniel Hawkins and Dinah Sykes. The Kansas Reflector reported little activity from his campaign. No campaign site or platform page has been located for him, so no policy positions are listed here.

Tracey Mann is a fifth-generation Kansan raised on his family farm south of Quinter and served as the state's 50th lieutenant governor, per his campaign site. He is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and appears on the certified list for the August 4 Republican ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State.

Priorities: Be a voice for Kansas farmers and ranchers in Washington · Revitalize rural Kansas communities · Strengthen border security

Craig Musser, of Ellinwood, is a chemical engineer and certified safety professional who has worked in housing materials, mining, and manufacturing as an engineer, human resources manager, maintenance manager, and safety director, per his campaign site. His campaign describes his approach as Republican sensibility with Libertarian ideals and pledges that no donor will buy his vote and no party will own his voice.

Priorities: Represent the will of Kansans rather than party agendas · Refuse donor and special-interest influence · Invite voters to shape the issues he works on

Colin McRoberts is a business law professor from Lawrence who began his career as a lawyer defending family businesses and later worked internationally as a professional negotiator, per his campaign site and the Kansas Reflector. He now teaches law and negotiation to business students and describes himself as a professional negotiator, not a professional politician.

Priorities: Address affordability, including returning tariff power to Congress · Hold the federal government accountable · Protect Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security

Lauren Reinhold is an attorney of 28 years and a former Social Security Administration attorney advisor from Lawrence who resigned after deep cuts to her agency's programs and jobs, per her campaign site. A longtime federal employee and workers' rights advocate, she centers her campaign on rural economic recovery and working families.

Priorities: Rebuild rural health care · Support agriculture and rural economies · Strengthen Social Security, unions, and worker rights

The Libertarian nominee for this district on the state's 2026 General list, per the Libertarian Party of Kansas. Libertarian nominees are chosen at party convention and appear on the November 3 ballot only, per the Kansas Secretary of State. The party listing gives only an email address and no campaign website, and no verified occupation or platform for this race could be confirmed.

Derek Schmidt, of Independence, is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and the Republican nominee for re-election, taking about 79% of the August 4 Republican vote. He served 12 years as Kansas attorney general before winning this seat and personally argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He now serves on the House Armed Services, Judiciary, and Small Business committees, per his campaign sit

Priorities: Border security and community safety · Curb federal spending and extend tax relief for families, small businesses, and farmers · Support law enforcement and victims of crime

Don Coover is the Democratic nominee for this district, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He is a veterinarian and Army veteran from Galesburg, a West Point graduate who served as an infantry officer with the 1st Infantry Division and later as an Army pilot in Korea before earning his veterinary degree from Kansas State University and returning to the Army with its K-9 units, per KCUR's district guide and his campaig

Priorities: Make housing, food, and health care more affordable · Protect Medicare and support rural hospitals · End insider practices such as political stock trading and no-bid contracts

A delivery driver and warehouse worker in Topeka and an Iraq War veteran with two deployments, per the Kansas News Service. He is the Libertarian nominee for this district and runs a self funded campaign that does not accept donations, per the Kansas News Service. Libertarian nominees are chosen at party convention and appear on the November 3 ballot only, per the Kansas Secretary of State.

Priorities: Eliminating the federal income tax and drastically cutting spending, per his campaign site · Bringing all troops home and closing foreign military bases, per his campaign site and the Kansas News Service · Attacking inflation, which he ties to federal waste, per the Kansas News Service

Sharice Davids has represented this district since 2019 and serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure and Agriculture committees, per KCUR's district guide. Raised in Leavenworth by a single mother who served more than 20 years in the Army, she worked her way from Johnson County Community College to Cornell Law School, per her campaign site. She is the sitting U.S. Representative and appears on the certif

Priorities: Lower the cost of living for Kansas families · Bring good jobs to the community · Make government work for people, not special interests

Sarah Preu is a technology and communications professional and former small business owner from Fairway who has lived in the district for 25 years, per her campaign site. A four-time voter for the incumbent who once canvassed for her, she is now challenging from the left, declining corporate PAC money and backing Medicare for All.

Priorities: Establish health care as a right · Get corporate money out of politics · Rebuild the middle class with a higher minimum wage and universal child care

Eric Jenkins is a retired Army colonel with 34 years of active and reserve service, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and a career Federal Emergency Management Agency professional, per his campaign site. He served on the Shawnee City Council from 2015 to 2023, including as council president, and spent more than 20 years on the city's planning commission.

Priorities: Fiscal responsibility and reduced federal spending · Strong national defense and veteran support · Border security

Chase LaPorte is an Army veteran from Mission who served three deployments during the Iraq War, per KCUR's district guide. His campaign emphasizes citizen leadership over career politics, and he has published his military discharge paperwork on his campaign site for voters to review.

Priorities: Term limits and accountable government · Responsible federal spending and economic growth · Constitutional liberty

An Air Force veteran and businessman running as the Libertarian nominee for this district, per the Kansas News Service. Libertarian nominees are chosen at party convention and appear on the November 3 ballot only, per the Kansas Secretary of State. He has appeared on this district's ballot before, drawing about 8 percent in 2016, and declined an interview request from KCUR, per the Kansas News Service.

Priorities: Downsizing the federal government and ending most social services while keeping Medicare and Social Security, per the Kansas News Service · Repealing the Affordable Care Act, per the Kansas News Service · Replacing the federal income tax with a tax on goods and services and cutting foreign military aid, per the Kansas News Service

Ron Estes is a fifth-generation Kansan with an engineering and business background who served as Sedgwick County treasurer and Kansas state treasurer before winning this seat in 2017, per his campaign site. He is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district, serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, and appears on the certified list for the August 4 Republican ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State.

Priorities: Lower taxes and rein in federal spending · Support Kansas agriculture and the Wichita aviation industry · Secure the border and strengthen national security

A farmer from Fall River who says he has farmed his entire life, describing it as 70 years of knowledge, per his campaign site. He asks voters to choose common sense over parties and builds his pitch around increases in healthcare, fuel, farm input and food costs since 2017, per his campaign site.

Priorities: Affordability, citing rising healthcare, fuel, agricultural input and food costs since 2017, per his campaign site · Inflation, which he named as his single top issue, per KMUW · Criticizing the incumbent for votes on tariffs and the war powers act, per his campaign site

Chris Carmichael is a retired colonel who served more than 31 years in the Army and Air Force, including over two years in Afghanistan, and earned the Bronze Star, per his campaign site. Now living in Andover, he is running on affordability, health care, and protecting Social Security.

Priorities: Lower everyday costs by rolling back tariffs and taking on monopolies · Make health care affordable and protect rural hospitals · Protect Social Security from cuts and privatization

Cole Epley SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN ON JULY 2, 2026 and endorsed Chris Carmichael, though his name still prints on the August 4 ballot, per Kansas Reflector. He is a former foster care social worker who worked at a licensed group home for middle school boys and as a transition case manager for the state foster care contractor EmberHope, per Kansas Reflector. He was born in Wichita, raised in Rose Hill, holds a music ed

Ryan Gilbert SUSPENDED HIS CAMPAIGN IN MID JULY 2026 and endorsed Katy Tyndell, though his name still prints on the August 4 ballot, per KMUW. He is a business manager at a family law practice and a Kansas native who describes himself as an abuse survivor who created a successful business and career, per his campaign site and KMUW.

Katy Jackman Tyndell is an attorney and business owner in Wichita who helps run her family's independent oil and gas operating company and previously served as staff attorney for the National Congress of American Indians, per her campaign site. In 2025 she co-founded Leading Kansas, a nonpartisan civic engagement group, per her campaign site and the Kansas Reflector.

Priorities: Bring down costs and make housing more affordable · Expand access to health care · Support farmers and defend the rule of law

A data engineer and small business founder who describes himself as not a career politician, per his campaign site. He is the Libertarian nominee for this district, and Libertarian nominees are chosen at party convention and appear on the November 3 ballot only, per the Kansas Secretary of State. His campaign runs under the slogan principle over party.

Priorities: Foreign policy and war powers, per his campaign site · Sound money and fiscal accountability, per his campaign site · Privacy and surveillance, per his campaign site