Elections

By Stephen Koranda Both candidates for governor gained support of party hardliners in their primary elections, but now Republican Ty Masterson and Democrat Cindy Holscher hope to gain unaffiliated and moderate voters in the general election by attacking their opponent...

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids is seeking her fifth term representing Johnson County in Congress and faces two challengers on the Nov. 3 ballot, Republican Eric Jenkins and Libertarian Steve Hohe. Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District comprises all of Johnson County, half...

By Stephen Koranda Kansas U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Republican, is running for his second term. He will face Pastor Adam Hamilton, a Democrat. Unlike the Kansas governor's office, which regularly switches between Republican and Democratic hands, a Democrat has not...

Johnson County Election Officials say there have been no widespread issues with voting machines during early voting and that all of the equipment used passed accuracy checks before being put in the field. This comes in response to accounts...

Overland Park lawyer and Shawnee Mission North grad David Graham says he doesn’t want to be the Libertarian spoiler in the neck-and-neck Kansas U.S. Senate race between Adam Hamilton and Roger Marshall. But he may become one anyway. The founder of...

By Grace Hills, Stephen Koranda  Republican incumbent U.S. Kansas Senator Roger Marshall and Democratic challenger Adam Hamilton faced off Wednesday evening in their final scheduled debate before Election Day. With less than two weeks left, what’s usually a sleepy, safe-for-Republicans Senate...

There's a lot on the Nov. 3 ballot, from a high-profile Senate contest to deciding who will be Prairie Village's next mayor. Not to mention 18 judicial retention votes (what's that, you ask?) and a vote on a constitutional amendment...

Johnson Countians have hit the polls early this year, resulting in a turnout for the first day of advance midterm voting that approaches the first day in the 2024 presidential election year. Figures posted on Facebook by the county election...

There are four seats on the Nov. 3 ballot for the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, including races for chair and three commission districts. The seven-member county commission is Johnson County's top governing body, enacting local legislation, setting the...

By Grace Hills  While defending incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall’s record of suing hundreds of his former patients at a rally near Wichita Monday, President Donald Trump evoked an antisemitic slur — one he used in the past and...

Early voting has started, and we're in the home stretch ahead of the Nov. 3 election. It's a much-watched election, featuring races up and down the ballot at all levels of government impacting Johnson Countians — from a U.S. Senate...

By Grace Hills Current Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is facing off against Democrat Chris Mann for the office. Again. The two were on the 2022 ballot, when Kobach won by one and a half percentage points. Kobach is running on his...