Miller County Sample Ballot & Voter Guide 2026
Who is running for Missouri House, Missouri Senate and Circuit Judge, 26th Judicial Circuit, and more, and where they stand on schools, roads and health care.
Judges
Circuit Judge, 26th Judicial Circuit, Division 3Aaron Koeppen (R)
Unopposed: still on your ballot.
Aaron Koeppen (Republican) is on the November 3, 2026 ballot for Circuit Judge, 26th Judicial Circuit, Division 3.
Aaron Koeppen
Aaron Koeppen is a judge of Missouri's 26th Judicial Circuit, listed as Judge Aaron Koeppen on the Laclede County Clerk's elected officials page. Per a 2020 Lake Expo candidate profile, he had been an associate circuit judge for nearly ten years, helped set up a Veterans Treatment Court serving the circuit's five counties, and taught evening college courses at Columbia College and OTC Lebanon. No campaign website was found as of October 4, 2026.
Aaron Koeppen (Republican) is the only certified candidate for this partisan circuit judgeship, which serves Camden, Laclede, Miller, Moniteau, Morgan counties, per the Missouri Secretary of State's certified general election candidate list. Circuit judges in nonpartisan court plan circuits appear as retention questions instead.
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These seats are elected by district; only the district covering your address is on your ballot.
Miller County is split across 2 Missouri House districts.
Find your districts by addressMissouri House: 2 districtsDistricts 61, 124
Missouri House District 61Bruce Sassmann (R) · Stacy Bax (D)
Bruce Sassmann
Bruce Sassmann represents Osage and Gasconade counties and parts of Miller and Montgomery counties as the District 61 state representative, first elected in November 2020, per the Missouri House of Representatives. He retired from a century-old family funeral business in Bland and Belle and has owned and operated a convenience store for 25 years, and he chairs the House Conservation and Natural Resources Committee, per the same source. No campaign website was found as of September 20, 2026.
Stacy Bax
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Ensuring rural school districts receive adequate resources and funding for students needing extra support
- Addressing rural hospital closures and medical staff shortages
- Investing in county roads, bridges and broadband
About Stacy Bax
Stacy Bax worked for the Missouri State Highway Patrol until 2008 and completed medical transcription coursework, per her campaign site. She manages bookkeeping for two small businesses she operates with her husband and has raised three children in the district, per the same source.
Bruce Sassmann (Republican), Stacy Bax (Democratic) meet on the November 3 ballot; Bruce Sassmann is the sitting member per the House roster. Missouri has no runoffs; the August 4 primary winner of each party is the nominee, and unopposed nominees still print. The field is the Missouri Secretary of State's certified general election candidate list (certified August 25, 2026). This seat is elected by district; only the district covering your address appears on your ballot.
Full race pageMissouri House District 124Kevin Onstott (R) · Tara Hallmark (D)
Kevin Onstott
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Support for fire, EMS and law enforcement
- Support for business interests and equal opportunity for working Missourians
- Limited government
About Kevin Onstott
Kevin Onstott is a sixth-generation farmer and lifetime resident of Iberia, Missouri, who spent 32 years with the Missouri Department of Transportation, the Missouri Veterans Commission and the Office of Administration, per his campaign site. He has volunteered for 26 years as a medic, fire captain and state fire inspector, and has served 20 years on the Iberia Fire Board and other community boards.
Tara Hallmark
Top priorities
From the campaign site
- Access to healthcare
- Strong schools
- Reliable infrastructure
About Tara Hallmark
Tara Hallmark served in the U.S. Navy from 1988 to 1999 and has worked in emergency management and disaster recovery, public safety, education, agriculture, and small business, per her campaign site.
Kevin Onstott (Republican), Tara Hallmark (Democratic) meet on the November 3 ballot. Missouri has no runoffs; the August 4 primary winner of each party is the nominee, and unopposed nominees still print. The field is the Missouri Secretary of State's certified general election candidate list (certified August 25, 2026). This seat is elected by district; only the district covering your address appears on your ballot.
Full race pageMissouri Senate District 6Jake Vogel (R) · J. Don Salcedo (D)
Jake Vogel
Jake Vogel is a candidate for Missouri Senate District 6, per his campaign site. No campaign website detail on his career or community background was found as of September 27, 2026.
J. Don Salcedo
Top priorities
From other published sources
- Addressing what he calls decades of underfunding in Missouri's public schools, per Jefferson City News Tribune interview
About J. Don Salcedo
J. Don Salcedo is a retired Missouri educator who has run for state government multiple times in the past, per the Jefferson City News Tribune, and is campaigning on education and quality-of-life improvement. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.
Jake Vogel (Republican), J. Don Salcedo (Democratic) meet on the November 3 ballot. Missouri has no runoffs; the August 4 primary winner of each party is the nominee, and unopposed nominees still print. The field is the Missouri Secretary of State's certified general election candidate list (certified August 25, 2026). This seat is elected by district; only the district covering your address appears on your ballot.
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Missouri nominees were set by the August 4 primary (plurality, no runoffs) and meet on the November 3 ballot; unopposed nominees still print. All 163 state House seats, the even-numbered state Senate districts, partisan circuit judgeships in non-plan circuits and the county offices on the four-year off-presidential cycle (presiding commissioner, clerk, circuit clerk, auditor, recorder, collector, prosecuting attorney) are up; sheriff, assessor, treasurer and the associate commissioners were elected in 2024, per the Secretary of State.
Who is on the ballot in Miller County, Missouri on November 3, 2026?
Miller County sample ballot 2026: see where the circuit judge, missouri house and missouri senate candidates stand on schools, roads and health care. Every candidate profile on this page names the official filing or campaign source it came from.
When is the 2026 general election in Missouri?
Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. Registration deadlines, early voting dates and mail ballot rules for Missouri are listed on the Missouri election hub. Missouri election hub →
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