Kansas a ‘leader’ in uncontested races - The Iola Register

Kansas a ‘leader’ in uncontested races - The Iola Register

In 2024 election cycle, 57 of Kansas’s 165 seats in the state legislature were won automatically by a single candidate. Every election year there are uncontested offices, so that the incumbent office-holders automatically win.  While that sometimes occurs for federal positions, it is most consequential in state legislatures, where crucial policies are decided in elections that are often ignored, because the outcome is already assumed (and which …