TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly narrowly won reelection in Republican-leaning Kansas by racking up big leads in the Kansas City area and other places where abortion rights are popular, while her party helped an independent candidate deny the GOP nominee a few crucial votes. Kelly argued ...
A constitutional amendment to ensure the position of sheriff remains an elected office in most Kansas counties was sailing to victory, while an amendment to give the Kansas Legislature more oversight of decisions made by the governor was narrowly losing. The constitutional amendment regarding ...
Topeka — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly hoped to win a second term Tuesday in Republican-leaning Kansas, with her close race turning on how many independent and moderate GOP voters stayed with her after lifting her to victory four years ago. Kelly was the only Democratic governor running for ...
Mike Stieben has won re-election again. This time he won nearly 71% of the vote against a write-in candidate. Stieben, a locomotive engineer with Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, won with 2,829 votes. Tonganoxie's Todd Lux had 1,183 votes, or about 29.4% of the vote. Lux, a longtime ...
The fate of an amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would shift regulatory clout from the governor to the Legislature remained in limbo on Wednesday because the statewide vote remained too close to call. The proposed amendment would give the Legislature, long dominated by Republicans, ...
MISSION — Kansas Democrat Sharice Davids held on to her Kansas City-area congressional seat in Tuesday’s election, overcoming Republican attacks over crime and the economy and new GOP-drawn boundaries designed to make her district harder for her to win. Davids, the only Democrat ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Republican Jerry Moran on Tuesday won a third term in the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Mark Holland, former mayor of Kansas City, Kansas. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Moran early in 2021, insulating him from a serious Republican primary challenge, though Moran ...
The race for Kansas Attorney General and the question of whether controversial Republican Kris Kobach would make a successful return to Kansas politics were too close to call Tuesday. Kobach and Democrat Chris Mann were in a dead heat in the race for attorney general. At 10:45 p.m., both ...
This letter to the editor was submitted to the Lawrence Journal-World. To the editor: A hot shower has been the only antidote to this most recent spate of election ads, leaving voters slimed and miserable in their wake. The specter of Kris Kobach campaigning for governor (2018), brandishing ...
Some Douglas County voters may have recently received a text message directing them to the incorrect polling place, and Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab is warning voters to be cautious of following their instructions. The text messages appear to come from an organization called Voting ...
