Elections

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...

Six Kansas House districts in Johnson County saw contested primary races on Tuesday. The winners of these races will now represent their party in the November general election, when every Kansas House seat will be on the ballot. Only voters registered...

The general election slate for Kansas Secretary of State is now set, after a contested Democratic primary was decided Tuesday night. One-time Kansas House member Jennifer Day of Overland Park coasted to victory in the Democratic contest, beating Samuel Lane...

By Zach Boblitt Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson defeated six other Republicans to clinch the GOP nomination for governor, while Overland Park state Sen. Cindy Holscher nabbed the Democratic nomination. Holscher’s win overturns the will of outgoing Gov. Laura Kelly, who...

Incumbent Rep. Sharice Davids and Eric Jenkins will face off in November’s general election in the race for the U.S. House of Representatives seat for the 3rd District of Kansas. That’s according to unofficial statewide election results from Tuesday night,...

By Stephen Koranda Zach Boblitt also contributed to this report Kansas voters have rejected an amendment to the state constitution that would have moved to electing justices for the state Supreme Court, according to a call by the Associated Press. The vote...

Mike Kelly and Karen Crnkovich were the top two vote-getters in a three-way primary race for chair of the Johnson County commission on Tuesday night. Unofficial totals from the Johnson County Election Office on Tuesday showed Kelly earned roughly 57%...