Kansas Voter Guide 2026

Ethan Corson is a Democratic candidate for Kansas governor and a state senator from Johnson County. His campaign emphasizes opportunity for the next generation of Kansans, public education, economic growth, health care access, and keeping young people in Kansas.

Priorities: Create opportunity for young Kansans and working families · Support public education and health care access · Grow Kansas communities and local economies

Cindy Holscher is a Democratic candidate for Kansas governor, a state senator from Johnson County, and a former state representative. Her campaign emphasizes public education, health care, economic opportunity, reproductive rights, and a kitchen-table message for Kansas families.

Priorities: Support public schools and Kansas families · Improve health care and affordability · Protect rights and pragmatic state leadership

Curt Skoog is a Democratic candidate for Kansas governor and the mayor of Overland Park. His campaign emphasizes local-government experience, economic development, public safety, infrastructure, and practical problem-solving from one of Kansas's largest cities.

Priorities: Bring local executive experience to state government · Support economic development and infrastructure · Focus on public safety and practical services

Vicki Schmidt is a Republican candidate for Kansas governor and the state's insurance commissioner. A former pharmacist and state senator, she emphasizes affordability, consumer protection, health care, insurance issues, and conservative state management.

Priorities: Lower costs and protect consumers · Bring executive and legislative experience to state government · Support conservative management of Kansas agencies

Scott Schwab is a Republican candidate for Kansas governor and the state's secretary of state. His public profile centers on election administration, conservative policy, state government operations, and a record of defending Kansas election systems while opposing unfounded fraud claims.

Priorities: Bring election-administration and executive experience to governor · Advance conservative tax, education, and economic policy · Improve trust and competence in state government

Ty Masterson is a Republican candidate for Kansas governor and president of the Kansas Senate. A longtime legislator and small-business owner, he is running on conservative fiscal policy, tax cuts, education policy, family issues, and Republican control of state government.

Priorities: Cut taxes and promote conservative fiscal policy · Use Senate leadership experience in state government · Advance conservative education and family-policy priorities

Charlotte O'Hara is a Republican candidate for Kansas governor, a former Johnson County commissioner, and a former state representative. Her campaign emphasizes opposition to state incentive deals, judicial-selection changes, tax policy, and a conservative critique of state spending.

Priorities: Limit state spending and incentive deals · Advance conservative judicial and tax policy · Bring county and legislative experience to state government

Stacy Rogers is a Republican candidate for Kansas governor and a Wichita-area business owner. Her campaign emphasizes government efficiency, conservative education and family themes, small-business concerns, and a promise to review state agencies for waste or mismanagement.

Priorities: Review state agencies for waste and inefficiency · Support conservative family and education policy · Bring small-business experience to state government

Roger Marshall is Kansas's incumbent U.S. senator and a Republican candidate for re-election in 2026. A physician and former U.S. representative from western Kansas, he has built his Senate record around agriculture, border security, health policy, veterans, energy, and conservative fiscal priorities.

Priorities: Support Kansas agriculture and rural communities · Strengthen border security and public safety · Advance conservative health, energy, and fiscal policy

Adam Hamilton is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas and the founding pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in the Kansas City area. His campaign emphasizes pragmatic leadership, political bridge-building, health care, affordability, faith-informed public service, and a contrast with incumbent Roger Marshall.

Priorities: Lower costs and improve health care · Bring pragmatic bridge-building to Washington · Focus on Kansas families rather than party conflict

Patrick Schmidt is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas, a state senator from Topeka, and a Navy veteran. He previously ran for Kansas's 2nd Congressional District and is campaigning on veterans' issues, health care, affordability, reproductive rights, and a more competitive Democratic statewide message.

Priorities: Support veterans and military families · Lower health-care and household costs · Protect reproductive rights and democratic accountability

Noah Taylor is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas and a counterintelligence specialist. His campaign emphasizes national security experience, public service, accountability, veterans and military families, and a generational challenge to incumbent Senator Roger Marshall.

Priorities: Bring national-security experience to the Senate · Support veterans and military families · Improve accountability and public trust

Jason Hart is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas and a former federal prosecutor. His campaign emphasizes rule of law, public safety, accountability, anti-corruption themes, and a prosecutor's approach to federal representation.

Priorities: Strengthen public safety and rule of law · Improve accountability in Washington · Use prosecutorial experience for oversight

Christy Davis is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas, a former Kansas director for USDA Rural Development, and a prior congressional candidate in the 1st District. Her campaign emphasizes rural development, agriculture, infrastructure, small towns, and practical federal investment in Kansas communities.

Priorities: Invest in rural Kansas and small towns · Support agriculture and local infrastructure · Improve access to federal services for communities

Anne Parelkar is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas and an attorney. Her campaign emphasizes immigration, legal accountability, health care, reproductive rights, and representing Kansas families with a practical Democratic agenda.

Priorities: Address immigration and legal-system challenges · Protect health care and reproductive rights · Improve accountability and representation for Kansas families

Erik Murray is a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas and a commercial real-estate developer. His campaign emphasizes economic growth, affordability, housing and community development, and a business-oriented Democratic alternative in the Senate race.

Priorities: Grow the Kansas economy and local communities · Address affordability and housing pressures · Bring business experience to federal policy

Kris Kobach is Kansas's incumbent attorney general and a Republican candidate for re-election. 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 a Democratic candidate for Kansas attorney general and the party's 2022 nominee for the office. A former prosecutor and police officer, he is running on public safety, consumer protection, civil rights, and making the attorney general's office more independent and practical.

Priorities: Focus on public safety and prosecution experience · Protect consumers and civil rights · Restore independence and professionalism to the office

Pat Proctor is a Republican candidate for Kansas secretary of state and a state representative from Leavenworth. His campaign emphasizes election administration, service experience, conservative election policy, military background, and state-record services.

Priorities: Administer secure and trusted elections · Use legislative and military-service experience · Improve state business and record services

Jennifer Day is a Democratic candidate for Kansas secretary of state and a former state representative. Her campaign emphasizes voting access, trustworthy election administration, business services, and protecting confidence in the office that runs Kansas elections and public records.

Priorities: Protect voting access and trusted elections · Modernize business and public-record services · Bring legislative experience to statewide administration

Samuel Lane is a Democratic candidate for Kansas secretary of state and a construction inspector. His campaign offers a Democratic primary alternative focused on accessible elections, public service, and practical administration.

Priorities: Support accessible election administration · Improve practical public services · Offer a Democratic alternative for secretary of state

Steven Johnson is Kansas's incumbent state treasurer and a Republican candidate for re-election. The treasurer's office manages state cash, investments, unclaimed property, college-savings programs, and public-finance services.

Priorities: Safeguard state cash and investments · Return unclaimed property and improve treasury services · Manage college-savings and public-finance programs

Juan C. Luengo 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. He serves on the boards of Mental Health America of the Heartland and The Builders' Association, and is the lone Democrat on the August 4 ballot for state treasurer, per the Kansas Secretary of State.

Priorities: Put the treasury's savings, lending, and unclaimed-property tools to work for families, per his campaign site · Transparency and fiscal responsibility, per his campaign site · Modernize the office, per his campaign site

Daniel Hawkins is a Republican candidate for Kansas insurance commissioner and the speaker of the Kansas House. His public record centers on conservative state policy, insurance and health-care issues, legislative leadership, and management of the House Republican agenda.

Priorities: Bring legislative leadership to insurance regulation · Focus on insurance affordability and consumer oversight · Advance conservative state regulatory policy

Dinah Sykes is a Democratic candidate for Kansas insurance commissioner and the Kansas Senate minority leader. Her public work emphasizes health care, consumer protection, affordability, insurance accountability, public education, and Democratic legislative leadership.

Priorities: Protect consumers in insurance markets · Address health-care and insurance affordability · Use Senate leadership experience in statewide regulation

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, served 12 years as Kansas attorney general before winning this seat and now serves on the House Armed Services, Judiciary, and Small Business committees, 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: 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

Runs Lifeskills Programs, a nonprofit that works with youth and underprivileged people through boxing in Arkansas and Kansas with plans to expand into Oklahoma, per the Kansas News Service. He lives in Lawrence, has never held elected office, and is self funding his campaign entirely, per the Kansas News Service. He sought this seat once before in 2024, taking about 5 percent in a five way Republican field, per the K

Priorities: Eliminating federal agencies and abolishing federal taxes, per the Kansas News Service · Opposing government surveillance tools including license plate readers and security cameras, per the Kansas News Service · Blocking new data centers and opposing large pharmaceutical companies, per the Kansas News Service

Don Coover is a veterinarian and Army veteran from Galesburg, a West Point graduate who served as a pilot and cryptographic operations officer before earning his veterinary degree from Kansas State University, per KCUR's district guide. Raised on his family's dairy and row-crop farm in southeast Kansas, he now helps run the family business providing veterinary services for farm animals, per his campaign site. He has

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