The 2020 Kansas Senate election took place as part of the
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2020
United States elections
Elections in the United States are held for government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. At the federal level, the nation's head of state, the president, is elected indirectly by the people of each state, through an Electora ...
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Kansas
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...
voters elected state senators in all of the state's 40 senate districts.
Retirements
Four incumbents did not run for reelection in 2020. Those incumbents are:
Republicans
#District 8:
Jim Denning
Jim Denning (born August 13, 1956), is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 8th district from 2013 to 2021.
Early life
On August 13, 1956, Denning was born in Great Bend, Kansas. Denning's father was Paul Denning, ...
: Retiring
#District 30:
Susan Wagle
Susan Wagle (born September 27, 1953) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 30th district from 2001 to 2021. She was elected Kansas Senate President in 2013 and was reelected in 2017. ...
: Retiring
Democrats
#District 7:
Barbara Bollier
Barbara Goolsbee Bollier (born January 13, 1958) is an American physician and politician. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the Kansas Senate representing the 7th district, which includes Mission Hills, Kansas in Johnson County. Bollier i ...
: Retiring; ran for United States Senate
#District 18:
Vic Miller: Retiring
Incumbents defeated
In primary elections
Republicans
Seven Republicans lost renomination.
#District 11:
John Skubal lost renomination to
Kellie Warren
Kellie K. Warren (born February 18, 1969) is an American politician from the state of Kansas, and former real estate attorney. A Republican, Warren serves as a member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 11th District. She has represented the 2 ...
.
#District 14:
Bruce Givens lost renomination to Michael Fagg.
#District 15:
Dan Goddard lost renomination to
Virgil Peck Jr.
#District 20:
Eric Rucker lost renomination to
Brenda Dietrich.
#District 24:
Randall Hardy lost renomination to
J. R. Claeys.
#District 33:
Mary Jo Taylor lost renomination to
Alicia Straub
Alicia Dawn Straub (born May 17, 1978) is an American politician who is a member of the Kansas Senate from the 33rd District since January 11, 2021. She is a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 113th district fro ...
.
#District 34:
Ed Berger
Edward Morris Berger (March 5, 1949 – January 22, 2017) was an American librarian, discographer, author, editor, historian, photographer, educator, jazz producer, and record label owner. For more than forty years, Berger was affiliated w ...
lost renomination to Mark Steffen.
In the general election
Republican
#District 5:
Kevin Braun lost to
Jeff Pittman.
Democratic
#District 19:
Anthony Hensley
Anthony Hensley (born September 2, 1953) is a former Democratic member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 19th district since 1992. He was the Minority Leader from 1996 through 2021 and has also been a committeeman of the Democratic Preci ...
lost to
Rick Kloos.
Predictions
Results summary
Close races
Districts where the margin of victory was under 10%:
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District 22, 1.2%
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District 3, 2.04%
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District 19, 2.42% (flip)
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District 10, 3.72%
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District 30, 4.22%
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District 9, 4.52%
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District 11, 5.36%
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District 5, 6.04% (flip)
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District 23, 6.22%
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District 28, 8.1%
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District 8, 8.72% (flip)
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District 25, 9.18%
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District 21, 9.58%
Summary of results by State Senate District
References
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Kansas Senate
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members ...
Kansas Senate elections