Who was on the ballot in 66604?

Derek Schmidt, of Independence, is the sitting U.S. Representative for this district and the Republican nominee for re-election, taking about 79% of the August 4 Republican vote. He served 12 years as Kansas attorney general before winning this seat and personally argued three cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. He now serves on the House Armed Services, Judiciary, and Small Business committees, per his campaign site.

Don Coover is the Democratic nominee for this district, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. He is a veterinarian and Army veteran from Galesburg, a West Point graduate who served as an infantry officer with the 1st Infantry Division and later as an Army pilot in Korea before earning his veterinary degree from Kansas State University and returning to the Army with its K-9 units, per KCUR's district guide and his campaign site. He now runs a cattle genetics company and a livestock veterinary practice.

A delivery driver and warehouse worker in Topeka and an Iraq War veteran with two deployments, per the Kansas News Service. He is the Libertarian nominee for this district and runs a self funded campaign that does not accept donations, per the Kansas News Service. Libertarian nominees are chosen at party convention and appear on the November 3 ballot only, per the Kansas Secretary of State.

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.

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.

Steven Johnson is Kansas's incumbent state treasurer and the Republican nominee for re-election, unopposed on the August 4 ballot. The treasurer's office manages state cash, investments, unclaimed property, and the state's college-savings programs. In announcing his re-election bid he pointed to a state sweep account that generated $9.9 million in interest in its first full fiscal year, and to financial-literacy and adoption savings account programs. No 2026 campaign site was found as of November 2, 2026; stevenjohnsonks.com carries no 2026 content.

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.

Eric Lund is the Libertarian nominee for Kansas state treasurer on the November 3, 2026 ballot, per the Kansas Secretary of State's 2026 general election candidate list. No campaign website was found as of September 6, 2026.

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.