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Data and analysis on Kansas elections. A project by Brian Amos and Alexandra Middlewood, two political science professors at Wichita State University. https://www.ike-lab.com/

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Advance voting in Kansas begins today! We’ve got our first report of the number of mail-in ballots requested so far, and a few hundred have already been returned. Our first in-person voting report (to the limited extent counties start today) will be tomorrow. #ksleg

Good morning! We've added a new report page to our site today which makes comparisons between the current state of advance voting in Kansas with the equivalent state in 2024 and 2022. We also do more breakdowns than in our old reports. Check it out! ike-lab.com/evcompare_26...

All 105 counties now have sample ballots posted in the state's VoterView system! 🎉 We don't post them on the site, but we keep an archive of sample ballots for each precinct for each election to help us crosscheck things like candidate lists.

Advance voting in Kansas begins today! We’ve got our first report of the number of mail-in ballots requested so far, and a few hundred have already been returned. Our first in-person voting report (to the limited extent counties start today) will be tomorrow. #ksleg

Current status: 82,543 ballots requested. That’s lower than the first report in 2022, but the share of votes cast by mail this August was low compared to previous years. May be a reaction to uncertainty about the process with recent law changes. County breakdowns here: ike-lab.com/dailyev_2611...

ike-lab.comAdvance Voting Stats for November 3, 2026

Coming today: breakdowns of the statewide races from the August primary, including the amendment vote! #ksleg

Happy Election Day! Early in-person voting is done, and the numbers from the SOS this morning should be nearly final (some counties are stragglers on reporting). We had 162k, which is well above Aug 24 (63k), but below the historically high Aug 22 (215k). ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608... #ksleg

We also have our August snapshot of the voter file posted: ike-lab.com/vfile_202608...

ike-lab.comRegistered Voters as of August 3, 2026

We've posted data on the Friday advance voting report for Kansas. Yesterday, Rs passed Ds in ballots cast, which is late compared to recent primaries. Of those who voted in 2024, 15.6% of Ds have voted, compared to 8.7% of Republicans and 4.9% of unaffiliateds. #ksleg ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608...

Our advance voting tracker for the August 4th Kansas primary is slowly growing. All 105 counties have now reported data for ballots mailed, and we have our first in-person votes from yesterday. #ksleg ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608...

The advance voting period for Kansas's primary begins today! We've got the first report from the SOS on the number of requested mail ballots. As is usual, we don't have numbers from every county yet, but we've got 87/105, including the biggest ones in the state. ike-lab.com/dailyev_2608... #ksleg

ike-lab.comAdvance Voting Stats for August 4, 2026

There are big primaries for both parties, including for an open governor's seat. Maybe even bigger is a constitutional amendment to move the state supreme court from a merit/retention system to nonpartisan elections - Republicans are looking to push the court more conservative with the change.

It is still early, but we can compare first reports to the past. There are slightly more requested ballots than the 2024 primary, but less than 60% of 2022. 2022 had an anti-abortion amendment (which failed), and this year's amendment would likely have the same effect if it passed. #ksleg

We are 28 days from the KS primary election! We just posted the full list of races and candidates across the state. That includes 16,308 precinct races, 2,586 township races, 329 county races, and 359 state races, one of which is a constitutional amendment. ike-lab.com/electionresu... #ksleg

ike-lab.comElection Results

We're late to posting this, but on June 9th, Morton County held a special election to recall their Sheriff, Thad Earls, and the measure passed 317-211. #ksleg

Good morning! Today is the first special election of the year in Kansas, a citizen-initiated measure in the city of Salina to repeal a ban on pit bulls. This is an all-mail election, so ballots are due by noon, and we'll likely have results in the afternoon. #ksleg

Unofficial results are in, the measure fails: 4,123 Yes, 5,329 No.

The Salina ordinance vote was certified on Tuesday. The final tally was 4,171 Yes, 5,357 No.

Unofficial results for our last special election from yesterday are from USD 404 (Riverton), which passed its bond question. #ksleg

A roundup of the unofficial election night results from Kansas's special election day! Still missing results from USD 404, although local news is reporting that the bond measure passed. #ksleg

Both bond measures in USD 418 (McPherson) pass. #ksleg

The USD 482 (Dighton) bond measure passes. #ksleg

In USD 107 (Rock Hills), the larger measure passes, the smaller one fails. #ksleg

In USD 270 (Plainville), the smaller bond passes, the larger one fails. #ksleg

The USD 417 (Morris County) bond measure fails. #ksleg

The city of Princeton sales tax passes. #ksleg

The city of Harper sales tax fails. #ksleg

The sales tax in Frontenac passes. #ksleg

The sales tax measure in the city of Wichita fails. #ksleg

The USD 340 (Jefferson West) bond measure fails. #ksleg

Both bond measures in USD 469 (Lansing) fail. #ksleg

USD 379 (Clay County) bond measure passes. #ksleg

USD 373 (Newton) bond measure passes. #ksleg

USD 353 (Wellington) bond measure fails. #ksleg

Both bonds for USD 322 (Onaga-Havensville-Wheaton) pass easily. #ksleg

USD 407 (Russell County) unofficial results are in, and the bond fails. #ksleg

Final election night results in for Hutchinson’s sales tax race. It looks like a tight win for yes. #ksleg

We’ve got some all-mail elections today, where ballots were due by noon and counting could begin immediately after. All three of Johnson County’s measures (Olathe and De Soto Schools and the city of Edgerton) look to have passed based on unofficial results. #ksleg

Final unofficial results. #ksleg

Tomorrow is special election day in Kansas! We've got 20 school bond measures and 6 municipal sales tax measures on ballots around the state, including in the city of Wichita and for Olathe Public Schools. Full text for all the measures is up on our site: ike-lab.com/complete_ele... #ksleg

We’ve got the full text up of all of the special election ballot measures that will be held on March 3rd! ike-lab.com/complete_ele.... #ksleg

ike-lab.com2026 Special Election Results

We have the complete guide to special election day in Kansas, which falls on March 3rd this year! 15 school districts will be holding bond elections and 6 cities will be holding sales tax elections. USD and city sizes, along with the amounts up for vote, are included. #ksleg

Correction/addition: USD 322 has two bond votes - the first is for $10m, the second is for $2m.

We do have one special election so far this year that isn't falling on March 3 (votes not relating to sales taxes and bonds are not required to be on the first Tuesday in March). Salina had a citizen-submitted petition to lift a ban on pit bulls, and the city commission decided to put it to a vote.

That is an all-mail election with ballots due by February 24th. Ballots were sent out last week!

It's (special) election time! Last year, we passed a bill to have a single special election day each year instead of allowing them throughout the first half of the year. This year's falls on March 3, which means that mail ballots were sent yesterday, and some counties have begun early voting! #ksleg

The big ones will be a sales tax measure in Wichita and a $389m school bond vote in Olathe, the second biggest district in the state. #ksleg

We posted complete results from the August primary: ike-lab.com/complete_ele... #ksleg

ike-lab.com2025 Primary Election Results

ICYMI: Last week, we added 2024 presidential election data to the site. If you go into the election results page, you can view the results broken down by any of the geographies we have available (county, city, state leg districts, etc.). You can also map them! #ksleg

Today, we also added county commission district maps to the site! #ksleg