Kansas House District 108: Meet the candidate running unopposed

Every Kansas House district covering Johnson County is on the Nov. 3 ballot. Meet the candidates running in your area.

Kansas House District 108 covers parts of Lenexa, Olathe and Overland Park in a corridor along I-35 in central Johnson County. See a district map to see its boundaries.

Democratic incumbent Rep. Brandon Woodard is running for reelection unopposed.

Learn more about him.

Brandon Woodard (Democratic, incumbent)

Brandon Woodard is running unopposed. He has served in the Kansas House since 2019 and is now House Minority Leader, the top Democratic lawmaker in the House. Woodard is development director for the AIDS Service Foundation of Kansas City and previously worked at KC CARE Health Center and KU Endowment. He backs Medicaid expansion, a sustainable plan to fund special education at the 92% level and advocates using a six-year rolling average to assess properties and determine taxes. He voted against the Senate’s valuation cap. As a legislative leader, he voted to approve the Chiefs stadium deal.

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