As county officials across Kansas continue to submit final vote counts, the Kansas Secretary of State’s Office’s post mortem of the 2024 election indicated a smooth transition of power. Preliminary estimates show more than 1.
Statehouse wins appear to give Kansas Republicans an even stronger majority in the Legislature they can use to override the Democratic governor.
Welcome to Election Day in Topeka, Kansas! Follow along as residents head to the polls and election results come in this evening.
While all 165 seats in the Kansas Legislature are up for election this year, 57 are effectively already filled as there is only one candidate running.
Topeka is part of eight seats in the Kansas House. In the 2024 election, Democrats are trying to break the Republican supermajority.
Donald Trump won Kansas by big margins in 2016 and 2020 and surged past Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
Kansas voters likely won't match the record-high turnout in 2020 according to preliminary results from the Secretary of State.
Topeka is part of four seats in the Kansas Senate. In the 2024 election, Democrats failed to break the Republican supermajority.
Votes were cast in races for Sedgwick County Commission, state school board & legislative seats in south-central Kansas.
Conservative Republicans appear to have won a majority on the Kansas State Board of Education for the first time in two decades.
Former President Donald Trump won Kansas and its six electoral votes on Tuesday. Republican candidates have carried Kansas in every presidential election since 1964, and it was the third election in a row that Trump has won the state.