State reference

How does government work in Kansas?

Kansas’s legislature, governor, courts, local governments and election offices, with a source for every fact.

Facts checked November 5, 2026. Anything we could not verify from a source is left out rather than guessed. Rules change, so confirm deadlines with the official election office.

165

State legislators

Legislature

4 years

Governor’s term

Governor

105

Counties

Local

Seats in the US House

Clerk of the House

Foundation: Constitution of the State of Kansas source
In effect since: 1859 source

What may surprise you here

Kansas district judges are elected unless a judicial district has voted to use a nonpartisan commission, so selection differs by district. source
In Kansas, the four largest counties use an election commissioner appointed by the secretary of state, while the other 101 counties use the elected county clerk. source

Legislature

Name: Kansas Legislature source
Senate: seats: 40 source
Senate: term in years: 4 source
House of Representatives: seats: 125 source
House of Representatives: term in years: 2 source
Term limits: None source

Structure set by: Art. 2, s. 1.

Governor and statewide offices

Term in years: 4 source
Term limit: No more than two successive terms source
Next regular election: 2030 source
Lieutenant governor: joint ticket source
Attorney general: elected source
Attorney general’s term in years: 4 source
Secretary of state: elected source
Secretary of state’s term in years: 4 source

Courts

Highest court: Supreme Court source
Intermediate appeals court: Court of Appeals source
Main trial court: District Courts source
How high-court judges reach the bench: mixed: Supreme Court by commission appointment and retention; district judges elected unless a district adopts commission selection source

Local government

Called: county source
How many: 105 source
Cities and towns: All municipal governments in Kansas are cities, which general law divides into three size classes (2022). source
Schools: Local public schools are operated by locally elected boards, under a separately elected state board of education. source

Elections

Chief election official: Secretary of State (Elections Division) source
Who runs elections locally: County election officers (county clerks in 101 counties) source
Primary type: partially closed source
Regular governor elections fall in: even source
Citizen initiatives: no source

Who holds these offices

As of November 5, 2026. Terms of the current Congress run to January 3, 2027. Winners of the November 3, 2026 elections are not shown until results are certified and they take office.

Governor: Laura Kelly Democratic, in office since January 14, 2019. source

US senators for Kansas
Senator	Party	Seat	Senator since	Current term ends
Roger Marshall	Republican	Class 2	January 3, 2021	January 3, 2027
Jerry Moran	Republican	Class 3	January 5, 2011	January 3, 2029

Members of the House for Kansas
Seat	Member	Party	In the House since
District 1	Tracey Mann	Republican	January 3, 2021
District 2	Derek Schmidt	Republican	January 3, 2025
District 3	Sharice Davids	Democratic	January 3, 2019
District 4	Ron Estes	Republican	April 25, 2017

Boundaries for the 119th Congress, simplified from the Census Bureau cartographic boundary file. For an exact address, use the House lookup.

Who has held each Senate seat since 2001

Each band is one person in the seat. The line marks November 2026; anything to its right is the rest of a current term. Dates through 2026 come from the congress-legislators public dataset, whose current members are matched against the Senate’s own roster on every build.

Senate seat, Class 2