Kansas Senate: Party Control and History

Current seats

Republican majorityDemocrats 9, Republicans 31. 40 seats; 21 for a majority.

Democrats 9Republicans 31

Control counts seats by party; coalitions and power-sharing agreements are not shown.

Members as of November 3, 2026 (Open States), before the winners of the November 3, 2026 elections take office.

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Democrat 9Republican 31

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2024: the candidate(s) with the most votes in each contest (MEDSL); contests with unreliable rows are not shown. Lines of the 2024 elections (US Census Bureau).

Members as of November 3, 2026 (Open States), before the winners of the November 3, 2026 elections take office.

Seats after each election, 1968-2022

Seats by election, table

Year	D	R	Seats	Control
2022	11	29	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
2020	11	29	40	Republican majority
2018	9	31	40	Republican majority
2016	9	31	40	Republican majority
2014	8	32	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
2012	8	32	40	Republican majority
2010	9	31	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
2008	9	31	40	Republican majority
2004	10	30	40	Republican majority
2000	10	30	40	Republican majority
1998	13	27	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
1996	13	27	40	Republican majority
1992	13	27	40	Republican majority
1988	18	22	40	Republican majority
1984	16	24	40	Republican majority
1980	16	24	40	Republican majority
1978	19	21	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
1976	19	21	40	Republican majority
1974	14	26	40	Republican majority (no regular election)
1972	13	27	40	Republican majority
1968	8	32	40	Republican majority

Carl Klarner, State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022: version 1.0, released June 12, 2024; a fixed historic release.

District results, 2016-2024

The candidate with the most votes in each contest.

2024: 40 contests

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	CRAIG BOWSER	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
2	MARCI FRANCISCO	Democrat	78.3%
3	RICK KLOOS	Republican	57.4%	some precinct votes suppressed in the source (counted as 0)
4	DAVID HALEY	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
5	JEFF KLEMP	Republican	50.0%
6	PAT PETTEY	Democrat	62.8%
7	ETHAN CORSON	Democrat	64.3%
8	CINDY HOLSCHER	Democrat	61.1%
9	BEVERLY GOSSAGE	Republican	61.2%
10	MIKE THOMPSON	Republican	52.4%
11	KELLIE WARREN	Republican	52.2%
12	CARYN TYSON	Republican	81.4%
13	TIM SHALLENBURGER	Republican	68.6%
14	MICHAEL A FAGG	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
15	VIRGIL PECK	Republican	72.6%
16	TY MASTERSON	Republican	65.6%
17	MIKE ARGABRIGHT	Republican	59.9%
18	KENNY TITUS	Republican	66.8%
19	PATRICK SCHMIDT	Democrat	64.5%	some precinct votes suppressed in the source (counted as 0)
20	BRENDA S DIETRICH	Republican	61.7%
21	DINAH SYKES	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
22	BRAD STARNES	Republican	50.9%
23	ADAM THOMAS	Republican	52.4%
24	JR CLAEYS	Republican	67.8%
25	MARY WARE	Democrat	57.1%
26	CHASE BLASI	Republican	71.2%
27	JOE CLAEYS	Republican	60.3%
28	MIKE PETERSEN	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
29	OLETHA FAUST GOUDEAU	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
30	RENEE ERICKSON	Republican	57.1%
31	STEPHEN OWENS	Republican	64.3%
32	LARRY W ALLEY	Republican	73.4%
33	TORY MARIE BLEW	Republican	80.4%
34	MICHAEL MURPHY	Republican	70.8%
35	TJ ROSE	Republican	52.8%
36	ELAINE S BOWERS	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
37	DOUGLAS SHANE	Republican	59.3%
38	RONALD RYCKMAN	Republican	73.8%
39	WILLIAM CLIFFORD	Republican	80.2%
40	RICHARD "RICK" BILLINGER	Republican	100.0%	one candidate

2020: 40 contests

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	DENNIS PYLE	Republican	71.7%
2	MARCI FRANCISCO	Democrat	100.0%	one candidate
3	TOM HOLLAND	Democrat	51.2%
4	DAVID HALEY	Democrat	78.4%
5	JEFF PITTMAN	Democrat	53.0%
6	PAT PETTEY	Democrat	64.2%
7	ETHAN CORSON	Democrat	59.2%
8	CINDY HOLSCHER	Democrat	54.3%
9	BEVERLY GOSSAGE	Republican	52.1%
10	MIKE THOMPSON	Republican	51.8%
11	KELLIE WARREN	Republican	52.6%
12	CARYN TYSON	Republican	74.4%
13	RICHARD HILDERBRAND	Republican	66.0%
14	MICHAEL A FAGG	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
15	VIRGIL PECK	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
16	TY MASTERSON	Republican	68.9%
17	JEFF LONGBINE	Republican	66.7%
18	KRISTEN O'SHEA	Republican	59.2%
19	RICK KLOOS	Republican	51.0%
20	BRENDA S DIETRICH	Republican	56.7%
21	DINAH SYKES	Democrat	54.7%
22	TOM HAWK	Democrat	51.3%
23	ROB OLSON	Republican	53.0%
24	JR CLAEYS	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
25	MARY WARE	Democrat	54.7%
26	DAN KERSCHEN	Republican	98.4%
27	GENE SUELLENTROP	Republican	66.6%
28	MIKE PETERSEN	Republican	53.6%
29	OLETHA FAUST GOUDEAU	Democrat	71.0%
30	RENEE ERICKSON	Republican	51.7%
31	CAROLYN MCGINN	Republican	99.0%
32	LARRY W ALLEY	Republican	100.0%
33	ALICIA "SCHARTZ" STRAUB	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
34	MARK STEFFEN	Republican	69.8%
35	RICHARD WILBORN	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
36	ELAINE S BOWERS	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
37	MOLLY BAUMGARDNER	Republican	65.3%
38	BUD ESTES	Republican	68.9%
39	JOHN DOLL	Republican	100.0%	one candidate
40	RICHARD "RICK" BILLINGER	Republican	78.8%

2018: 1 contests

Incomplete in the source: counties in the file with no rows for this chamber (uncontested seats left off the ballot, or missing data).

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
13 (special)	RICHARD HILDERBRAND	Republican	54.8%

2016: 40 contests, 8 not shown

District	Most votes	Party	Share	Note
1	Pyle, Dennis D.	not in source	58.3%	seats not in source
2	Francisco, Marci	not in source	66.1%	seats not in source
3	Holland, Tom	not in source	51.5%	seats not in source
4	David Haley	not in source	98.2%	seats not in source
5	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
6	Pat Pettey	not in source	70.3%	seats not in source
7	Barbara Bollier	not in source	54.2%	seats not in source
8	Jim Denning	not in source	52.7%	seats not in source
9	Julia Lynn	not in source	60.0%	seats not in source
10	Mary Pilcher Cook	not in source	51.3%	seats not in source
11	John Skubal	not in source	64.9%	seats not in source
12	Tyson, Caryn	not in source	73.3%	seats not in source
13	LaTurner, Jake	not in source	56.1%	seats not in source
14	Givens, Bruce	not in source	72.6%	seats not in source
15	Goddard, Dan	not in source	60.9%	seats not in source
16	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
17	Longbine, Jeff	not in source	59.0%	seats not in source
18	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
19	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
20	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
21	Dinah H. Sykes	not in source	50.2%	seats not in source
22	Hawk, Tom	not in source	100.0%	seats not in source; one candidate
23	Rob Olson	not in source	60.5%	seats not in source
24	Hardy, Randall R.	not in source	59.1%	seats not in source
25	Lynn W. Rogers	not in source	58.4%	seats not in source
26	Dan Kerschen	not in source	69.4%	seats not in source
27	Gene Suellentrop	not in source	66.4%	seats not in source
28	Mike Petersen	not in source	51.4%	seats not in source
29	Oletha Faust Goudeau	not in source	97.7%	seats not in source
30	Susan Wagle	not in source	58.4%	seats not in source
31	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
32	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
33	Taylor, Mary Jo	not in source	76.5%	seats not in source
34	Berger, Edward E.	not in source	82.2%	seats not in source
35	Wilborn, Richard	not in source	71.4%	seats not in source
36	Bowers, Elaine S.	not in source	85.1%	seats not in source
37	Not shown: several seats may be pooled under one label
38	Estes, Bud	not in source	75.7%	seats not in source
39	Doll, John	not in source	83.4%	seats not in source
40	Billinger, Richard (Rick)	not in source	74.3%	seats not in source

Not available: 2022.

MEDSL precinct returns 2016-2024: a fixed historic release; the file records no release date.

Sources

Current members: Open States (CC0 1.0), commit 3a1d876 of November 3, 2026; seat totals from openstates-metadata (MIT).

Seats after each election: Carl Klarner, State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022, Harvard Dataverse (CC0 1.0).

District results: MEDSL precinct returns (2018-2024 CC0 1.0; 2016 MIT License).

District lines: US Census Bureau, TIGER/Line cartographic boundaries (public domain), state legislative districts 2024, 1:500,000.

Data through November 3, 2026.