Leawood, Kansas sample ballot 2026

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.

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.

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.

Diediker is a former elementary music educator and an Olathe parent of three who has advocated for students and families for over two decades, per the campaign site. Her advocacy deepened after her daughter was diagnosed with a rare disease affecting mobility, which involved navigating 504 plans and accessibility needs. She is running for Kansas State Board of Education District 3.

McMullen is a lifelong Johnson County resident who works as an attorney and business executive and previously served on a local school board, per the campaign site. He is a father of five and grandfather of three, and is running for Kansas State Board of Education District 3.

Roger Marshall is a Kansas OB-GYN from Great Bend and the state's sitting U.S. senator, per the campaign site. He is a fifth-generation Kansas farm kid born in El Dorado, with a biochemistry degree from Kansas State University (1982) and a medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine (1987), per the campaign site. He served in the U.S. House for Kansas's 1st District from 2017 to 2021 and was sworn in as a U.S. senator on January 3, 2021, per the campaign site.

• Voted yes on the Laken Riley Act, expanding federal detention of certain immigrants charged with theft or violent crimes, which passed the Senate 64-35 in January 2025. Supported
• Voted yes on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax-and-spending package, which passed the Senate 50-50 in July 2025, with the vice president casting the tie-breaking vote. Supported
• Voted yes on the Honoring our PACT Act, improving health care and benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances, which cleared the Senate 86-11 in August 2022. Supported

Adam Hamilton is a fifth-generation Kansan who started a church with four people in 1990 at age 25 and served as its pastor for 36 years, per the campaign site. He describes his platform as the Affordability Agenda, per the campaign site.

David Graham grew up in a working-class Kansas home, attended Shawnee Mission North, earned a B.A. at Washburn University and a law degree at the University of Kansas, and runs his own law firm as a solo practitioner, per the campaign site. David C Graham is the Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in Kansas on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list.

Cindy Holscher is the Democratic nominee for Kansas governor, a state senator from Johnson County and a former state representative. She took 49% of the August 4 Democratic vote, per the Kansas Reflector. Her campaign platform, titled the Common Sense and Lower Costs Agenda, leads with the cost of living, a $16 state minimum wage, a cut to the residential property assessment rate, and a moratorium on new large corporate data centers. Her running mate for lieutenant governor is state Rep. KC Ohaebosim.

Ty Masterson is the Republican nominee for Kansas governor and president of the Kansas Senate. A longtime legislator and small-business owner, he took 43% of the August 4 Republican vote in a seven-way field, per the Kansas Reflector. His campaign platform points to a $2 billion tax cut he helped lead and calls Kansas the 16th highest-taxed state; on election night he named property taxes as his top target. He also emphasizes job growth, deregulation, public safety funding and reading and math proficiency. His running mate for lieutenant governor is Jeffrey Klemp, per the Kansas Secretary of State's certified 2026 general election candidate list.

Kris Kobach is Kansas's incumbent attorney general and the Republican nominee for re-election, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. A former Kansas secretary of state, his office has emphasized conservative litigation, immigration-related legal issues, public safety, consumer protection, and challenges to federal policy.

Chris Mann is the Democratic nominee for Kansas attorney general, unopposed on the August 4 ballot, and was the party's 2022 nominee for the office. He became a police officer at 21 and left the job after a career-ending injury caused by a drunk driver in 2002, then prosecuted cases for the Wyandotte County district attorney; he has chaired the national board of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. His platform page leads with resourcing small local law-enforcement agencies, noting that about 70% of Kansas agencies have ten or fewer officers.

Pat Proctor is the Republican nominee for Kansas secretary of state, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. A retired Army officer who served roughly three decades including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, he has represented Kansas House District 41 since 2020, chairs the House Elections Committee, teaches at Wichita State University and co-owns a Thai restaurant in Leavenworth. Per local election reporting, he wants Election Day to be the final ballot deadline and would add a prosecutor and a law enforcement officer to the office.

Jennifer Day is the Democratic nominee for Kansas secretary of state, a Mission businesswoman and former state representative from House District 48. She won the August 4 Democratic contest, which the Associated Press called at 8:25 p.m. Since the election she has called for expanding Kansas's advance-voting window, which at 20 days she describes as the shortest in the country, and for keeping the three-day grace period for mail ballots.

Scott Morgan is a fifth-generation Kansan, attorney and co-founder of Morgan Quitno Press, a publisher of state and city reference books, per the campaign site. He served two terms on the Lawrence School Board and is Executive Director of United Kansas, per the campaign site. Earlier he was staff counsel to Senator Bob Dole and chief counsel to Governor Mike Hayden, per the campaign site.

Juan C. Luengo is the Democratic nominee for Kansas state treasurer, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He is the CEO of Engage Insurance Group, where he diversified a single-carrier business into a multi-carrier brokerage operating in six states, per his campaign site, and he serves on the boards of Mental Health America of the Heartland and The Builders' Association. His bilingual campaign site organizes his platform as Five Pillars to Move Kansas Forward.

Daniel Hawkins is the Republican nominee for Kansas insurance commissioner and the speaker of the Kansas House, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He served in the Kansas Army National Guard, has worked in employee benefits since 1995, and has represented the 100th House District since 2013. His campaign site says he would cut regulatory barriers that keep carriers out of Kansas and make the insurance department, in his phrase, the most taxpayer-friendly state agency.

Dinah Sykes is the Democratic nominee for Kansas insurance commissioner and the Kansas Senate minority leader, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. She entered politics as a Republican and switched parties in December 2018. In a July 2026 trade-press questionnaire she said insurers' use of artificial intelligence should face the same transparency expectations as the rest of the industry, with models tested for accuracy and bias and a human kept accountable.

Ric Koehn is the Libertarian Party of Kansas nominee for insurance commissioner on the November 3, 2026 ballot. He says he is running because the party is committed to the free market, per the Libertarian Party of Kansas candidate blog. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.