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Last updated: Oct. 8, 2024
Thousands of general elections are taking place across the United States on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include offices at the federal, state, and local levels. This is one of 50 pages in which Ballotpedia previews the elections happening in each state as part of the Daily Brew’s 50 states in 25 days series.
This page provides an overview of all elections happening in Kansas within our coverage scope on Nov. 5, 2024. Those elections include office for four U.S. Representatives, five seats on the Kansas State Board of Education, 125 state Representatives, 40 state Senators, and seven intermediate appellate court justices. On this page, you will also find information regarding:
- How to vote in Kansas
- The elected offices that Kansas voters can expect to see on their ballots
- The races in Kansas that Ballotpedia is covering as battlegrounds
- Ballotpedia's Sample Ballot Lookup Tool
- The partisan balance of Kansas' congressional delegation and state government
- Past presidential election results in Kansas
- The competitiveness of legislative elections in Kansas
- The candidates who are on the ballot in Kansas
Voting information
- See also: Voting in Kansas
What's on the ballot?
2024 elections
- See also: Kansas elections, 2024
Kansas voters will elect four U.S. Representatives. One district is open because incumbent Jacob LaTurner (R) is retiring from public office.
One statewide executive office, the Kansas State Board of Education, has five seats up for election. Two incumbents hold these seats, and three seats are open.
All 125 seats in the state House are up for election. All 40 seats in the state Senate are up for a regularly scheduled election.
Seven seats on the intermediate appellate court are up for election. Kansas is one of 20 states that use retention elections at the state supreme court level and one of 19 states that use this method for at least one type of court below the supreme court level. Incumbents hold all of these seats.
Municipal elections will be held in Topeka for district attorney. Municipal elections will also be held in Sedgwick County for county clerk, district attorney, register of deeds, sheriff, and treasurer. Sedgwick County is one of 80 counties included in Ballotpedia's coverage of municipal elections.
Below is a list of Kansas elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2024. Click the links to learn more about each type:
| Kansas elections, 2024 | ||
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| Office | Elections? | More information |
| U.S. Senate | — | — |
| U.S. House | ✓ | Click here |
| Congress special election | — | — |
| Governor | — | — |
| Other state executive | ✓ | Click here |
| State Senate | ✓ | Click here |
| State House | ✓ | Click here |
| Special state legislative | — | — |
| State Supreme Court | — | — |
| Intermediate appellate courts | ✓ | Click here |
| School boards | — | — |
| Municipal government | ✓ | Click here |
| Recalls | — | — |
| Ballot measures | — | — |
| Local ballot measures | — | — |
Legend: ✓ election(s) / — no elections
Subject to Ballotpedia's scope
Your ballot
- See also: Sample Ballot Lookup
Noteworthy elections
As of Oct. 8, 2024, Ballotpedia has identified two elections as battleground races. These are the races that we expect to have a meaningful effect on the balance of power in governments or to be particularly competitive or compelling.
State analysis
Partisan balance
Republicans represent three districts in Kansas’ U.S. House delegation and Democrats represent one district. In the U.S. House, Republicans have a 220-212 majority with three vacancies.
Both of Kansas' U.S. Senators—Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran—are Republicans. Democrats have a majority in the U.S. Senate. There are 47 Democrats, 49 Republicans, and four independents. Three independents caucus with the Democratic Party, and one other counts towards the Democratic majority for committee purposes.
Republicans have a 29-11 majority in the state Senate and an 85-39 majority with one vacancy in the state House. Republicans have held a majority in the state Senate since 1917 and have had a majority in the state House since 1993.
Because the governor is a Democrat, Kansas is one of 10 states with a divided government. It has held this status since 2019, when Laura Kelly (D) took office as governor. Kansas' attorney general and secretary of state are Republicans. This makes Kansas one of five states with divided control. It has held this status since 2019.
Past presidential election results in Kansas
- See also: Presidential election in Kansas, 2024
How a state's counties vote in a presidential election and the size of those counties can provide additional insights into election outcomes at other levels of government including statewide and congressional races. Below, four categories are used to describe each county's voting pattern over the 2012, 2016, and 2020 presidential elections: Solid, Trending, Battleground, and New. Click [show] on the table below for examples:
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| Solid Democratic | D | D | D | ||||
| Trending Democratic | R | D | D | ||||
| Battleground Democratic | D | R | D | ||||
| New Democratic | R | R | D | ||||
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| Status | 2012 | 2016 | 2020 | ||||
| Solid Republican | R | R | R | ||||
| Trending Republican | D | R | R | ||||
| Battleground Republican | R | D | R | ||||
| New Republican | D | D | R | ||||
Following the 2020 presidential election, 60.9% of Kansans lived in one of the state's 100 Solid Republican counties, which voted for the Republican presidential candidate in every election from 2012 to 2020, and 29.3% lived in one of three New Democratic counties: Johnson, Riley, and Shawnee. Overall, Kansas was Solid Republican, having voted for Mitt Romney (R) in 2012, Donald Trump (R) in 2016, and Donald Trump (R) in 2020. Use the table below to view the total number of each type of county in Kansas following the 2020 election as well as the overall percentage of the state population located in each county type.
| Kansas county-level statistics, 2020 | |||||||
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| Solid Republican | 100 | 60.9% | |||||
| New Democratic | 3 | 29.3% | |||||
| Solid Democratic | 2 | 9.8% | |||||
| Total voted Democratic | 5 | 39.1% | |||||
| Total voted Republican | 100 | 60.9% | |||||
State legislative competitiveness
According to Ballotpedia's annual state legislative competitiveness report, Kansas had a Competitiveness Index of 31.5, ranking it 27th of the 44 states that held elections.
- 31 of the 165 seats up for election were open (19%).
- 17 of the 134 incumbents who ran for re-election faced contested primaries (13%).
- 104 of the 165 seats up for election were contested by both major parties (63%).
2010-2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Kansas, 2010-2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | Rank | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 8.0% | 20.0% | 56.8% | 28.3 | 29 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 31.5% | 42.5% | 69.7% | 47.9 | 5 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 10.4% | 18.8% | 60.0% | 29.7 | 22 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 20.0% | 29.5% | 66.7% | 38.7 | 14 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 10.4% | 23.2% | 48.8% | 27.5 | 34 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | 13.9% | 21.8% | 65.5% | 33.7 | 18 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 19.2% | 15.7% | 48.0% | 27.6 | 38 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 18.8% | 12.7% | 63.0% | 31.5 | 27 / 44 | |||||||||||||||||||
In 2024
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| State Legislative Competitiveness Index in Kansas, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Chamber | Open seats | Incs. in contested primaries | Major party competition | Competitiveness Index | ||||||||||||||||||||
| House | 16.0% | 7.6% | 58.4% | 27.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senate | 27.5% | 31.0% | 77.5% | 45.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 18.8% | 12.7% | 63.0% | 31.5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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