Kansas Sample Ballot 2026: Every Candidate on Your November Ballot

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 assessment rate, and a moratorium on new large corporate data centers. Her running mate for lieutenant governor is state Rep. KC Ohaebosim.

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 taxes as his top target. He also emphasizes job growth, deregulation, public safety funding and reading and math proficiency. His running mate for lieutenant governor is Jeffrey Klemp, per the Kansas Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list.

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 input prices, and prior-authorization reform for rural hospitals; 82 of the state's 124 hospitals are critical-access facilities, per that site.

Adam Hamilton is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas. 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 crisis, building bridges across parties, and restoring decency in government.

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.

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 with resourcing small local law-enforcement agencies, noting that about 70% of Kansas agencies have ten or fewer officers.

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 Election Day to be the final ballot deadline and would add a prosecutor and a law enforcement officer to the office.

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 country, and for keeping the three-day grace period for mail ballots.

Scott Morgan is an attorney and former publishing-business owner who grew up in Shawnee and holds University of Kansas degrees in journalism and law, per the Lawrence Times. He has worked as staff counsel to U.S. Sens. Nancy Landon Kassebaum and Bob Dole and as chief counsel to Gov. Mike Hayden, and he co-founded the statistical publisher Morgan Quitno Press, per the same report. The newly formed United Kansas Party nominated him for secretary of state in May 2026. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.

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 adoption savings account programs. No campaign website was found as of September 8, 2026.

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 platform as Five Pillars to Move Kansas Forward.

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 his phrase, the most taxpayer-friendly state agency.

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 insurers' use of artificial intelligence should face the same transparency expectations as the rest of the industry, with models tested for accuracy and bias and a human kept accountable.

Ric Koehn is the Libertarian Party of Kansas nominee for insurance commissioner on the November 3, 2026 ballot. He says he is running because the party is committed to the free market, per the Libertarian Party of Kansas candidate blog. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.