Kansas state legislative election results, 2024
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The sections below contain analysis of election results in the state legislative elections for Kansas in 2024.
General election results
Senate
- See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2024
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Retiring incumbents
Senate
Eleven incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[1] This was the highest number of retirements since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2010. Those incumbents were:
House
Twenty incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024.[2] The average number of retirements in election years from 2010 to 2022 was 19.6. Those incumbents were:
Primary election competitiveness
This section contains data on state legislative primary election competitiveness in Kansas. These totals include data from all regularly-scheduled House and Senate elections. For more information about Ballotpedia's competitiveness analysis of state legislative elections, please click here.
Post-filing deadline analysis
The following analysis covers all state legislative districts up for election in KS in 2024. Information below was calculated on July 18, 2024, and may differ from information shown in the table above due to candidate replacements and withdrawals after that time.
Kansas had 41 contested state legislative primaries on August 6, 2024. That was the fewest contested primaries in years that all 165 seats of the state legislature were up for election since Ballotpedia started tracking in 2012.
There were 11 contested Democratic primaries and 30 contested Republican primaries. This was a record low for both parties. The average number of contested elections for Democrats in years that both chambers held elections was 15. The average for Republicans was 59.7.
There were 318 total candidates running for state legislature including 140 Democrats and 178 Republicans. For Republicans, this was a record low. For Democrats, this was below the average of 142.3.
There were 135 incumbents running for re-election in the primaries. Of them, 18, or 13.3%, faced primary challengers. That was a record-low number of incumbents facing primary challengers in years when both chambers held elections. The average number of returning incumbents in those years was 133.1.
Thirty incumbents did not file for re-election in 2024. This was above the combined average of 22 for both chambers in the legislature.
There were 11 retiring incumbents in the Senate, including one Democrat and 10 Republicans. That was a record high for Republicans, who had an average of 5 retirements from 2010 to 2022. For Democrats, the average number of retirements was 0.7.
Three Democrats and 16 Republicans also retired from the House. The average number of retirements for Democrats was 3.9 and the average number of retirements for Republicans was 15.7.
Kansas has had a divided government since Gov. Laura Kelly (D) assumed office in 2019. Republicans have majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. Since 1992, Kansas has had 16 years of Republican trifectas and no Democratic trifectas.
Senate
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Kansas State Senate from 2010 to 2024.[3]
| Open Seats in Kansas State Senate elections: 2012 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 40 | 11 (28 percent) | 29 (73 percent) |
| 2020 | 40 | 4 (10 percent) | 36 (90 percent) |
| 2016 | 40 | 8 (20 percent) | 32 (80 percent) |
| 2012 | 40 | 4 (10 percent) | 36 (90 percent) |
House
The table below shows the number and percentage of open seats in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2010 to 2024.[4]
| Open Seats in Kansas House of Representatives elections: 2010 - 2024 | |||
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| Year | Total seats | Open seats | Seats with incumbents running for re-election |
| 2024 | 125 | 20 (16 percent) | 105 (84 percent) |
| 2022 | 125 | 23 (18 percent) | 102 (82 percent) |
| 2020 | 125 | 19 (15 percent) | 106 (85 percent) |
| 2018 | 125 | 13 (10 percent) | 112 (90 percent) |
| 2016 | 125 | 26 (21 percent) | 99 (79 percent) |
| 2014 | 125 | 13 (10 percent) | 112 (90 percent) |
| 2012 | 125 | 33 (26 percent) | 92 (74 percent) |
| 2010 | 125 | 10 (8 percent) | 115 (92 percent) |
See also
- Elections
- Elections calendar
- Elections by state and year
- State Poll Opening and Closing Times
- State legislative elections, 2024
Footnotes
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines an incumbent as retiring if the incumbent did not file for office or filed for office but withdrew, was disqualified, or otherwise left a race in a manner other than losing the primary, primary runoff, or convention. If an incumbent runs as a write-in candidate, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring. If an incumbent runs in the same chamber for a different seat, Ballotpedia does not consider them to be retiring.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
- ↑ Ballotpedia defines a seat as open if the incumbent did not file to run for re-election or filed but withdrew and did not appear on any ballot for his or her seat. If the incumbent withdrew from or did not participate in the primary but later chose to seek re-election to his or her seat as a third party or independent candidate, the seat would not be counted as open. If the incumbent retired or ran for a different seat in the same chamber, his or her original seat would be counted as open unless another incumbent from the same chamber filed to run for that seat, in which case it would not be counted as open due to the presence of an incumbent.
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