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3 candidates are tracked for County Commission Chairman on the November 3, 2026 ballot: Mike Kelly, Karen Crnkovich and Gene Senesac. Candidate information follows official Johnson County election filings; verify with the official election office linked below.
Johnson County's one county-wide 2026 race: a nonpartisan open primary on August 4 in which every registered voter may participate, with the top two advancing to November 3. District commission seats, sheriff, and district attorney are not on the 2026 cycle. Candidates are from the county election office's certified listing.
An attorney at Husch Blackwell and the sitting chair of the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners, first elected chair in 2022, per the county election office listing and Johnson County Post profiles. He was mayor of Roeland Park from 2017 to 2022 and co-founded Climate Action KC, per the Johnson County Post.
2026 priorities
- Protecting public safety, notably Med-Act ambulance service, per the Johnson County Post
- Improving aging infrastructure, per the Johnson County Post
- Diversifying county revenue to rely less on property taxes, per the Johnson County Post
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-08-29.
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Owner of DMC Service Inc., a commercial heating, cooling, and plumbing contractor in Olathe, per the Johnson County Post. She founded the nonprofit Strong Families in 2019 to help struggling homeowners with urgent repairs, per her campaign site, and sought the Republican nomination in the 3rd Congressional District in 2024, per the Johnson County Post.
2026 priorities
- Lowering property taxes by cutting the county taxing rate, per the Johnson County Post
- A countywide moratorium on new data centers, per the Johnson County Post
- Tighter scrutiny of economic development incentives, with clawbacks, per the Johnson County Post
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-08-29.
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A retired transportation executive who worked 37 years for Archer Daniels Midland, retiring as director of transportation in 2019, per the Johnson County Post. He serves on Olathe's street maintenance sales tax oversight committee, per his campaign biography.
2026 priorities
- Fiscal oversight of the county budget, per the Johnson County Post
- Ensuring home appraisals are fair, per the Johnson County Post
- Opposing county spending on housing subsidies, per the Johnson County Post
Source: candidate campaign site, roster verified 2026-08-29.
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