As county officials across Kansas continue to submit final vote counts, the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office’s post mortem of the 2024 election indicated a smooth transition of power. Preliminary estimates show more than 1.
Far-right Republicans were poised to win two of five seats up for election on the Kansas State Board of Education, shifting the board’s power to a conservative bloc. With moderate board members on their way out and four conservatives already in place,
Statehouse wins appear to give Kansas Republicans an even stronger majority in the Legislature they can use to override the Democratic governor.
Welcome to Election Day in Topeka, Kansas! Follow along as residents head to the polls and election results come in this evening.
Former President Donald Trump won Kansas and its six electoral votes on Tuesday. Republican candidates have carried Kansas in every presidential election since 1964, and it was the third election in a row that Trump has won the state.
The Kansas Legislature's Republican leaders and Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly close in on settling fate of the GOP's two-thirds majority in House and Senate.
While all 165 seats in the Kansas Legislature are up for election this year, 57 are effectively already filled as there is only one candidate running.
Topeka is part of eight seats in the Kansas House. In the 2024 election, Democrats are trying to break the Republican supermajority.
Donald Trump won Kansas by big margins in 2016 and 2020 and surged past Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Get live updates to key Kansas races, including the U.S. House, the state legislature, Board of Education and more.
Republican Rep. Tracey Mann won reelection to a U.S. House seat representing Kansas on Tuesday. Mann won his third term by defeating Democrat Paul Buskirk in a sprawling 1st Congressional District that is a safe seat for the GOP.