Elections

By Zach Boblitt In front of a crowd at the Kansas State Fair, Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton kept hitting on Roger Marshall’s ties to President Donald Trump. The founder of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection kept his...

Vice President JD Vance will visit an Olathe manufacturer on Monday, Sept. 14, his office has announced, along with Republican Sen. Roger Marshall. The invitations to the event come via a flyer from MAGA Inc., which said the event will...

Connie Schmidt, who was appointed to temporarily fill the vacancy created when county Election Commissioner Fred Sherman resigned last December, has been sworn in to officially take over the job of Election Commissioner long-term. The decision prompted a concerned statement...

By Zach Boblitt Democrats think they have a shot to win the Kansas attorney general’s race this year after a narrow loss last time. The race four years ago was the tightest statewide race and the two candidates are the same....

The Johnson County Post will host seven nights of forums this fall ahead of the Nov. 3 general election, giving local voters a chance to hear directly from the candidates who want to represent them in local offices. As has...

You got through the primary, now it's on to November! Johnson Countians will have candidates up and down their ballots, from races for U.S. Senate and U.S. House to statewide offices like governor and attorney general. Every Kansas House seat will...

People hoping to look up who’s donating to candidates for city and Johnson County government will find that information harder to get this year, due to a decision by county officials not to continue posting it on the election...

County Election Commissioner Connie Schmidt said she is happy with the 37.4% turnout in the Aug. 4 primary and would be unlikely to add eight former advance voting sites that were not open this month back into the lineup...

By Grace Hills Kansas Democrats are trying — again — to break the Republican supermajority in the Statehouse. Most of the make-or-break contested races are in the Kansas City area, including several contests in Johnson County. The two-thirds majority allows Republicans...

The choices in November will be a lot simpler, now that primary elections are over. The names of the nominees themselves are still unofficial, but in the aftermath of polling Tuesday, voters can be assured that for the partisan races...

On to November, Johnson County! A consequential and busy primary election in Kansas just ended, and while vote totals are not officially final (that won't happen until the vote canvass on Aug. 14), we can still make some conclusions based...

After winning the primary for the open District 3 seat on the Kansas State Board of Education, Republican Jim McMullen will now face Democrat Amy Diediker in November. Diediker ran unopposed in the Democratic primary, while McMullen bested Steve Roberts...