Kansas US Senate 2026
Election day is November 3, 2026. A statewide contest in Kansas.
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What the Kansas US Senate election decides
The Senate confirms federal judges and cabinet officers, ratifies treaties, and can stop legislation the House passes. With a six-year term and a hundred-member chamber, a single seat is a larger share of the institution than any House district, which is why Senate races draw national money into state contests.
Each state sends two senators regardless of population, so this seat carries the same weight as California's or Wyoming's. Kansas voters fill it alongside all 4 of the state's House seats and the governorship, and a Senate term runs six years, spanning two future Congresses and, in this case, the next presidential election.
How Kansas votes
Kansas is a Republican-leaning state with a pragmatic streak: its suburban Johnson County has become genuinely competitive, and statewide contests have occasionally broken from the partisan default, including on ballot measures. That backdrop is the ground any Kansas campaign fights on, and it is what the Electorate HQ simulation reads first when it weighs a ticket's platform against this contest.
About this race
The 2026 United States Senate election in Kansas will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Kansas. Republican incumbent Roger Marshall is seeking a second term. He is being challenged by Democratic pastor Adam Hamilton.
In the August 4 primary elections, Marshall won the Republican nomination against minimal opposition. Hamilton won the Democratic nomination with 34.9% of the vote over a field of candidates that included former Kansas USDA Rural Development director Christy Davis and Army veteran Noah Taylor.
Democrats have not won a Senate election in Kansas since 1932.
Latest coverage of the Kansas US Senate race
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Every Kansas House district, the counties inside each one, and an address lookup that resolves your exact districts are on the Kansas state page.
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Analysis covering Kansas
Nebraska's 3rd district contains 79 counties. Forty-four states contain fewer.
A portrait of the most county-dense district in the country, and what a 79-county constituency does to the arithmetic of campaigning.
Twenty-six states elect a senator and a governor on the same day in 2026
The overlap between the Senate class and the gubernatorial cohort is a coincidence of two unrelated calendars, and it decides where money goes.