Political party strength in Kansas
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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Kansas:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- State Treasurer
- Insurance Commissioner
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
1861–1974[]
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral votes | |||||||||
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor |
Secretary of State | Attorney General |
Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | Auditor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) |
U.S. Senator (Class III) |
U.S. House | ||
| 1861 | Charles L. Robinson (R)[a] | Joseph Pomeroy Root (R) | (R)[b] | (R) | Hartwin Rush Dutton (R) | post created 1871 | (R) | 22R, 3D | 64R, 11D | James Henry Lane (R)[c] | Samuel C. Pomeroy (R) | Martin F. Conway (R) | |
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| 1862 | (R)[d] | (I) | |||||||||||
| 1863 | Thomas Carney (R) | Thomas A. Osborn (R) | Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence (R) | (R) | William Spriggs (R) | (R) | 20R, 2D, 2I, 1ID | 57R, 8D, 7U, 1I, 1Abol, 1? | Abel Carter Wilder (R) | ||||
| 1864 | 30R, 3D, 42? | Abraham Lincoln/ Andrew Johnson (NU) 
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| 1865 | Samuel J. Crawford (R)[e] | James McGrew (R) | Rinaldo Allen Barker (R) | (R) | (R) | 19R, 2I, 2NU, 1D, 1Nat | 62R, 7D, 4Abol, 1I, 1IR, 1NU, 2? | Sidney Clarke (R) | |||||
| 1866 | 61R, 10D, 1I, 1IR, 1NU, 1W, 3? | ||||||||||||
| 1867 | Nehemiah Green (R) | George Henry Hoyt (R) | Martin Anderson (R) | 20R, 5D | 69R, 13D | Edmund G. Ross (R) | |||||||
| 1868 | 62R, 26D | Ulysses S. Grant/ Schuyler Colfax (R)
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| Nehemiah Green (R)[f] | vacant | ||||||||||||
| 1869 | James M. Harvey (R) | Charles Vernon Eskridge (R) | Thomas Moonlight (R) | (R) | George Graham (R) | (R) | 24R, 1D | 84R, 6D | |||||
| 1870 | R majority | ||||||||||||
| 1871 | Peter Percival Elder (R) | William Hillary Smallwood (R) | (R) | Josiah E. Hayes (R) | William C. Webb (R) | 25R | 82R, 16D | Alexander Caldwell (R) | David Perley Lowe (R) | ||||
| 1872 | R majority | Ulysses S. Grant/ Henry Wilson (R)
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| 1873 | Thomas A. Osborn (R) | Elias S. Stover (R) | Edward Russell (R) | (R) | 27R, 5FA, 1D | 51R, 34FA, 18I, 2D | Robert Crozier (R) | John James Ingalls (R) | 3R | ||||
| 1874 | Samuel Lappin (R) | Harrison Clarkson (R) | 57R, 18Ref, 13I,[g] 9FA, 4Lib, 3D, 2?, 1 vac. | James M. Harvey (R) | |||||||||
| 1875 | Melville J. Salter (R)[h] | Thomas Horne Cavanaugh (R) | (R) | John Francis (R) | Orrin T. Welch (R) | 20R, 9Ref, 3D, 1LR | 75R, 20Ref, 10D, 2? | 2R, 1D | |||||
| 1876 | 77R, 9D, 13I,[i] 4IR, 3Ref, 1RefR, 1? | Rutherford B. Hayes/ William A. Wheeler (R)
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| 1877 | George T. Anthony (R) | (R) | (R) | 35R, 5D | 107R, 18D | Preston B. Plumb (R)[c] | 3R | ||||||
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| 1879 | John St. John (R) | James Smith (R) | 108R, 17D | ||||||||||
| 1880 | James A. Garfield/ Chester A. Arthur (R)
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| 1881 | David Wesley Finney (R) | William Agnew Johnston (R) | 37R, 2D, 1Fus | 112R, 9D, 4Fus | |||||||||
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| 1883 | George Washington Glick (D) | Samuel T. Howe (R) | Richard B. Morris (D) | Edward P. McCabe (R) | 86R, 26D, 13GB | 7R | |||||||
| 1884 | (D) | James G. Blaine/ John A. Logan (R) 
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| 1885 | John Martin (R) | Alexander P. Riddle (R) | Edwin Bird Allen (R) | (R) | 37R, 3D | 107R, 11D, 7I | |||||||
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| 1887 | James William Hamilton (R) | Daniel W. Wilder (R) | Timothy McCarthy (R) | 97R, 24D, 3I, 1Lab | 6R, 1IR | ||||||||
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison/ Levi P. Morton (R)
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| 1889 | Lyman U. Humphrey (R) | Andrew Jackson Felt (R) | William Higgins (R) | Lyman Beecher Kellogg (R) | 39R, 1D | 121R, 2D, 2UL | 7R | ||||||
| 1890 | William Sims (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1891 | (D) | Solomon G. Stover (R) | W. H. McBride (R) | (R) | 92FA, 26R, 7D | William A. Peffer (Pop) | 5Pop, 2R | ||||||
| 1892 | Bishop W. Perkins (R) | James B. Weaver/ James G. Field (Pop)
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| 1893 | Lorenzo D. Lewelling (Pop) | Percy Daniels (Pop) | Russell Scott Osborn (Pop) | (Pop) | William H. Biddle (Pop) | S. H. Snider (R) | (Pop) | 23Pop, 15R, 2D | 64R, 58Pop, 2D, 1I | John Martin (D) | 5Pop, 2R, 1D | ||
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| 1895 | Edmund Needham Morrill (R) | James Armstrong Troutman (R) | William Corydon Edwards (R) | (R) | Otis L. Atherton (R) | George T. Anthony (R) | (R) | 91R, 33Pop, 1D | Lucien Baker (R) | 7R, 1Pop | |||
| 1896 | Alexander P. Riddle (R) | William Jennings Bryan/ Arthur Sewall (D)
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| 1897 | John W. Leedy (Pop) | Alexander Miller Harvey (Pop) | William Eben Bush (Pop) | (Pop) | David Heflebower (Pop) | Webb McNall (Pop) | William H. Morris (Pop) | 27Pop, 11R, 2D | 67Pop, 47R, 8D, 3SvR | William Alexander Harris (Pop) | 6Pop, 2R | ||
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| 1899 | William Eugene Stanley (R) | Harry E. Richter (R) | George Alfred Clark (R) | (R) | Frank Grimes (R) | Willard V. Church (R) | (R) | 92R, 33Pop | 7R, 1Pop | ||||
| 1900 | William McKinley/ Theodore Roosevelt (R)
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| 1901 | 31R, 7Pop, 2D | 81R, 30Pop, 12D, 2SvR | Joseph R. Burton (R) | 7R, 1D | |||||||||
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| 1903 | Willis J. Bailey (R) | David John Hanna (R) | Joel Randall Burrow (R) | (R) | Thomas Kelly (R) | Charles H. Luling (R) | (R) | 95R, 30D | Chester I. Long (R) | 8R | |||
| 1904 | Theodore Roosevelt/ Charles W. Fairbanks (R)
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| 1905 | Edward W. Hoch (R) | 37R, 3D | 110R, 15D | ||||||||||
| 1906 | Alfred W. Benson (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1907 | William James Fitzgerald (R) | Charles Eugene Denton (R) | Fred S. Jackson (R) | Mark Tulley (R) | Charles W. Barnes (R) | (R) | 94R, 31D | Charles Curtis (R) | |||||
| 1908 | William Howard Taft/ James S. Sherman (R)
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| 1909 | Walter R. Stubbs (R) | 34R, 6D | 84R, 40D, 1I | Joseph L. Bristow (R) | |||||||||
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| 1911 | Richard Joseph Hopkins (R) | Charles Harrison Sessions (R) | John Shaw Dawson (R) | Isaac S. Lewis (R) | William E. Davis (R) | 71R, 53D, 1I | |||||||
| 1912 | Woodrow Wilson/ Thomas R. Marshall (D)
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| 1913 | George H. Hodges (D) | Sheffield Ingalls (R) | Earl Akers (R) | 21D, 18R, 1Soc | 72D, 51R, 2Soc | William Howard Thompson (D) | 5D, 3R | ||||||
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| 1915 | Arthur Capper (R) | William Yoast Morgan (R) | John Thomas Botkin (R) | (R) | Carey J. Wilson (R) | 66R, 49D, 9Prog, 1Soc | Charles Curtis (R) | 6D, 2R | |||||
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| 1917 | Walter Payne (R) | (R) | 31R, 9D | 86R, 37D, 2Soc | 5D, 3R | ||||||||
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| 1919 | Henry Justin Allen (R) | Charles Solomon Huffman (R) | Lewis Julian Pettijohn (R) | Richard Joseph Hopkins (R) | Frank L. Travis (R) | 110R, 15D | Arthur Capper (R) | 7R, 1D | |||||
| 1920 | Warren G. Harding/ Calvin Coolidge (R)
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| 1921 | E. T. Thompson (R) | (R) | 38R, 2D | 113R, 12D | 8R | ||||||||
| 1922 | David Owen McCray (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1923 | Jonathan M. Davis (D) | Benjamin S. Paulen (R) | Frank Joseph Ryan (R) | (R) | William R. Baker (R) | 95R, 30D | 7R, 1D | ||||||
| 1924 | Calvin Coolidge/ Charles G. Dawes (R)
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| 1925 | Benjamin S. Paulen (R) | De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (R) | Carl White (R) | William E. Davis (R) | 32R, 8D | 92R, 33D | 6R, 2D | ||||||
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| 1927 | (R) | (R) | 7R, 1D | ||||||||||
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover/ Charles Curtis (R)
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| 1929 | Clyde M. Reed (R) | Jacob W. Graybill (R) | Edgbert Albert Cornell (R) | Tom Boyd (R) | Charles F. Hobbs (R) | 37R, 3D | 101R, 24D | Henry Justin Allen (R) | |||||
| 1930 | (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1931 | Harry Hines Woodring (D) | Jacob W. Graybill (R) | 77R, 48D | George McGill (D) | |||||||||
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt/ John Nance Garner (D)
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| 1933 | Alf Landon (R) | Charles W. Thompson (R) | Frank Joseph Ryan (R) | William Marion Jardine (R) | 23R, 17D | 65R, 60D | 4R, 3D | ||||||
| 1934 | J. J. Rhodes (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1935 | (R) | (D) | 75R, 50D | ||||||||||
| 1936 | George S. Robb (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1937 | Walter A. Huxman (D) | William M. Lindsay (D) | 25R, 15D | 74R, 51D | 5R, 2D | ||||||||
| 1938 | Jibo Hewitt (D) | ||||||||||||
| 1939 | Payne Ratner (R) | Carl E. Friend (R) | Jay S. Parker (R) | Walter Wilson (R) | 108R, 17D | Clyde M. Reed (R)[c] | 6R, 1D | ||||||
| 1940 | Wendell Willkie/ Charles L. McNary (R)
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| 1941 | 35R, 5D | 98R, 27D | |||||||||||
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| 1943 | Andrew F. Schoeppel (R) | Jess C. Denious (R) | (R) | 113R, 12D | 6R | ||||||||
| 1944 | Thomas E. Dewey/ John W. Bricker (R)
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| 1945 | Elmer T. Beck (R) | 39R, 1D | 120R, 5D | ||||||||||
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| 1947 | Frank Carlson (R)[k] | Frank L. Hagaman (R) | Edward F. Arn (R) | Richard Fadely (R) | Frank Sullivan (R) | 108R, 17D | |||||||
| 1948 | Thomas E. Dewey/ Earl Warren (R)
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| 1949 | Larry Ryan (D) | (R) | 34R, 6D | 95R, 30D | Andrew Frank Schoeppel (R)[c] | ||||||||
| 1950 | Harry Darby (R) | ||||||||||||
| Frank L. Hagaman (R)[f] | vacant | Paul R. Shanahan (R) | |||||||||||
| 1951 | Edward F. Arn (R) | Fred Hall (R) | 105R, 43D | Frank Carlson (R) | |||||||||
| 1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower/ Richard Nixon (R)
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| 1953 | 35R, 5D | 5R, 1D | |||||||||||
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| 1955 | Fred Hall (R)[l] | John McCuish (R) | 89R, 36D | 6R | |||||||||
| 1956 | John Anderson Jr. (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1957 | John McCuish (R)[f] | vacant | 32R, 8D | 82R, 43D | 5R, 1D | ||||||||
| George Docking (D) | Joseph W. Henkle Sr. (D) | ||||||||||||
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| 1959 | George Hart (D) | 69R, 56D | 3D, 3R | ||||||||||
| 1960 | Richard Nixon/ Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R)
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| 1961 | John Anderson Jr. (R) | Harold H. Chase (R) | (R) | Walter Peery (R) | (R) | 82R, 43D | 5R, 1D | ||||||
| 1962 | James B. Pearson (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1963 | 89R, 36D | 5R | |||||||||||
| 1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson/ Hubert Humphrey (D)
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| 1965 | William H. Avery (R) | John Crutcher (R) | Robert C. Londerholm (R) | 27R, 13D | 80R, 45D | ||||||||
| 1966 | Elwill M. Shanahan (R) | ||||||||||||
| 1967 | Robert Docking (D) | 77R, 48D | |||||||||||
| 1968 | Richard Nixon/ Spiro Agnew (R)
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| 1969 | James H. DeCoursey Jr. (D) | Kent Frizzell (R) | 32R, 8D | 87R, 38D | Bob Dole (R) | ||||||||
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| 1971 | Reynolds Shultz (R) | Vern Miller (D) | Fletcher Bell (R) | 84R, 41D | 4R, 1D | ||||||||
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| 1973 | Dave Owen (R) | Tom Van Sickle (R) | 27R, 13D | 80R, 45D | |||||||||
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| Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor |
Secretary of State |
Attorney General |
Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | Auditor | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) |
U.S. Senator (Class III) |
U.S. House |
Electoral votes |
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1975–present[]
| Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral votes | ||||||||
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| Governor | Lieutenant Governor |
Secretary of State |
Attorney General |
Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) |
U.S. Senator (Class III) |
U.S. House | ||
| 1975 | Robert Frederick Bennett (R) | Shelby Smith (R) | Elwill M. Shanahan (R) | Curt T. Schneider (D) | Joan Finney (D) | Fletcher Bell (R) | 27R, 13D | 72R, 53D | James B. Pearson (R) | Bob Dole (R) | 4R, 1D | |
| 1976 | Gerald Ford/ Bob Dole (R)
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| 1977 | 21R, 19D | 65D, 60R | 3R, 2D | |||||||||
| 1978 | Jack Brier (R) | |||||||||||
| 1979 | John W. Carlin (D) | Paul Dugan (D) | Robert Stephan (R) | 69R, 56D | Nancy Kassebaum (R) | 4R, 1D | ||||||
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan/ George H. W. Bush (R)
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| 1981 | 23R, 17D | 72R, 53D | ||||||||||
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| 1983 | Thomas Docking (D) | 3R, 2D | ||||||||||
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| 1985 | 24R, 16D | 76R, 49D | ||||||||||
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| 1987 | Mike Hayden (R) | Jack D. Walker (R) | Bill Graves (R) | 74R, 51D | ||||||||
| 1988 | George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1989 | 22R, 18D | 67R, 58D | ||||||||||
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| 1991 | Joan Finney (D) | (D) | Sally Thompson (D) | (R) | 63D, 62R | |||||||
| 1992 | George H. W. Bush/ Dan Quayle (R)
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| 1993 | 26R, 14D | 66R, 59D | 2D, 2R | |||||||||
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| 1995 | Bill Graves (R) | Sheila Frahm (R)[m] | Ron Thornburgh (R)[n] | Carla Stovall (R) | Kathleen Sebelius (D) | 80R, 45D | 4R | |||||
| 1996 | Bob Dole/ Jack Kemp (R)
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| Gary Sherrer (R)[o] | Sheila Frahm (R)[m] | |||||||||||
| Sam Brownback (R)[p] | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | 27R, 13D | 77R, 48D | Pat Roberts (R) | |||||||||
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| 1999 | Tim Shallenburger (R) | 3R, 1D | ||||||||||
| 2000 | George W. Bush/ Dick Cheney (R)
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| 2001 | 30R, 10D | 79R, 46D | ||||||||||
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| 2003 | Kathleen Sebelius (D)[q] | John E. Moore (D) | Phill Kline (R) | Lynn Jenkins (R)[r] | Sandy Praeger (R) | 80R, 45D | ||||||
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| 2005 | 83R, 42D | |||||||||||
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| 2007 | Mark Parkinson (D) | Paul J. Morrison (D)[n] | 78R, 47D | 2R, 2D | ||||||||
| 2008 | John McCain/ Sarah Palin (R)
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| 2009 | Dennis McKinney (D)[s] | 31R, 9D | 77R, 48D | 3R, 1D | ||||||||
| Mark Parkinson (D)[f] | Troy Findley (D)[s] | 76R, 49D[t] | ||||||||||
| 2010 | Chris Biggs (D)[s] | |||||||||||
| 2011 | Sam Brownback (R)[u] | Jeff Colyer (R) | Kris Kobach (R) | Derek Schmidt (R) | Ron Estes (R) | 32R, 8D | 92R, 33D | Jerry Moran (R) | 4R | |||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney/ Paul Ryan (R)
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| 2014 | 93R, 32D[v] | |||||||||||
| 2015 | Ken Selzer (R) | 98R, 27D | ||||||||||
| 2016 | Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R)
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| 2017 | Jake LaTurner (R)[s] | 31R, 9D | 85R, 40D | |||||||||
| 2018 | Jeff Colyer (R) [f] | Tracey Mann (R) [s] | 30R, 9D, 1I[w] | |||||||||
| 2019 | Laura Kelly (D) | Lynn Rogers (D) | Scott Schwab (R) | Vicki Schmidt (R) | 28R, 11D, 1I[x] | 84R, 41D[y] | 3R, 1D | |||||
| 2020 | 29R, 11D[z] | Donald Trump/ Mike Pence (R)
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| 2021 | David Toland (D)[s] | Lynn Rogers (D)[s][1] | 86R, 39D | Roger Marshall (R) | ||||||||
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Secretary of State |
Attorney General |
Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) |
U.S. Senator (Class III) |
U.S. House |
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- ^ Impeached but acquitted of charges and was not removed from office.
- ^ Elected in December 1859 in anticipation of statehood and sworn in after Kansas was admitted to the Union in February 1861. As a result of a bond scandal, was impeached on February 26, 1862, along with Governor Charles L. Robinson and state Auditor George S. Hillyer. Robinson was convicted by the state Senate on June 12, 1862 and removed from office, becoming the first state executive branch official to be impeached and removed from office in U.S. history.
- ^ a b c d Died in office.
- ^ Succeeded to office on July 28, 1862.
- ^ Resigned to take command of the 19th Kansas Infantry.
- ^ a b c d e As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.
- ^ Includes 2 Independent Republicans, and 1 Liberal Independent.
- ^ Resigned July 10, 1877.
- ^ Includes 4 Independent Republicans.
- ^ Elected November 6, 1877, to fill vacancy.
- ^ Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.
- ^ Resigned with 11 days left in his term. The first act of his successor was to appoint him to the Kansas Supreme Court.
- ^ a b Resigned as Lieutenant Governor on June 11, 1996 and was appointed by Governor Bill Graves to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.
- ^ a b Resigned.
- ^ The state's first appointed lieutenant governor, he was appointed on July 18, 1996 to fill a vacancy and was elected in his own right in November 1998.
- ^ Defeated Sheila Frahm in the primary, and took the seat early on November 7, 1996 after the special general election.
- ^ Resigned to take office as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- ^ Elected in November 2008 to U.S. House representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Appointed by Governor to fill vacancy.
- ^ On January 12, 2009, incumbent Republican Dale Swenson switched parties to Democratic.
- ^ Resigned to take office as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.
- ^ On May 30, 2014, incumbent Democrat Jan Pauls switched parties to Republican.
- ^ On March 7th 2018, Sen. John Doll changed his party affiliation from Republican to Independent.
- ^ Sen. Barbara Bollier changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic. Six days later, Sen. Dinah Sykes also changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.
- ^ On December 18th, 2018, Rep. Stephanie Clayton changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.
- ^ On or about July 29th, 2019, Sen. John Doll changed his party affiliation from Independent back to Republican.
References[]
- ^ "Governor Laura Kelly Announces Intention to Appoint Lieutenant Governor Lynn Rogers To Become State Treasurer". Governor of the State of Kansas. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2020-12-10.
See also[]
- Law and government in Kansas
Categories:
- Politics of Kansas
- Government of Kansas
- Political party strength by state in the United States