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Who is on the ballot in 66010?

Linn County, KS

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Fields below reflect the November 3, 2026 general election ballot as races are certified.

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U.S. House, Kansas District 2
3 candidates
Federal ▾
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Derek Schmidt
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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 site.
Top 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
Key voting record
Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the House 218-214 in July 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the House 263-156 in January 2025. Supported
Voted yes on the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal 2026, which passed the House 231-196 in September 2025. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Don Coover
DEM
Biography
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 campaign site. He now runs a cattle genetics company and a livestock veterinary practice.
Top 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
Campaign siteFull profile
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John Hauer
Biography
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.
Top 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
Campaign siteFull profile
About this race
November 3, 2026 general election. The August 4 primary is decided; these are the candidates who will appear on the November ballot. The Libertarian nominee is chosen at party convention and appears on the November ballot only.
U.S. Senate
3 candidates
Federal ▾
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Roger Marshall
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Support Kansas agriculture and lower farm input costs
  • Protect rural hospitals and reform prior authorization
  • Strengthen border security
Key voting record
Voted yea on on the immigration-detention bill. Supported
Voted yea on on the Republican tax and spending package. Supported
Voted yea on to expand health care for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins. Supported
Campaign siteFull profile
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Adam Hamilton
DEM
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Lower energy bills and require data centers to pay their fair share
  • Protect Social Security and senior security
  • Make housing more affordable
Campaign siteFull profile
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David C Graham
Biography
David C Graham is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
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Governor
2 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Cindy Holscher
DEM
Biography
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.
Top 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%
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Ty Masterson
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Cut taxes, with property taxes as the top target
  • Grow Kansas jobs and cut regulation
  • Increase public safety funding
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Attorney General
2 candidates
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Kris Kobach
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Use the attorney general's office for conservative litigation
  • Strengthen public safety and criminal enforcement
  • Challenge federal policy and defend state authority
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Chris Mann
DEM
Biography
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.
Top 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
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Secretary of State
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Pat Proctor
REP
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Make Election Day the final ballot deadline
  • Maintain voter rolls and citizen-only voting
  • Limit third-party ballot collection
Per the local election reporting.
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Jennifer Day
DEM
Biography
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.
Top 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
Campaign siteFull profile
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Scott Morgan
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Calm competence in the administration of elections rather than partisan conflict
  • Constantly improve election security and verification while promoting participation and making it easier for eligible citizens to vote
Per the Lawrence Times.
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Treasurer
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Steven Johnson
REP INCUMBENT
Biography
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.
Top 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
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Juan C. Luengo
DEM
Biography
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.
Top 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
Campaign siteFull profile
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Eric Lund
Biography
Eric Lund is the Libertarian nominee for Kansas state treasurer on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
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Insurance Commissioner
3 candidates
Statewide ▾
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Daniel Hawkins
REP
Biography
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.
Top 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
Campaign siteFull profile
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Dinah Sykes
DEM
Biography
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.
Top 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
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Ric Koehn
Biography
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.
Top Priorities
  • Return the insurance industry to the free market, per the Libertarian Party of Kansas
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Countywide races in Linn County

ZIP 66010 sits in Linn County, per the Census crosswalk. These seats are voted countywide; district seats, city races and school boards need a street address. All Linn County races (3).

Member, Kansas State Board of Education, District 9
2 candidates
County ▾
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Heather Guernsey
DEM
Biography
Heather Guernsey is a member of the Chanute USD 413 Board of Education, per her campaign site. Her campaign describes her as a mother and educator who believes public education is the great equalizer, per the same source.
Top Priorities
  • Keep students, not politics, at the center of education policy
  • Support for rural schools
  • Support for teachers
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Destry Brown
REP
Biography
Destry Brown is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Member, Kansas State Board of Education, District 9, per the Kansas Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 23, 2026.
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About this race
Heather Guernsey (Democratic) and Destry Brown (Republican) are running for Kansas State Board of Education District 9, per the Kansas Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list. District 9 covers all or part of a group of Kansas counties, per the Kansas State Department of Education's official district map; this seat covers a multi-county district, not just this county.

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