Kansas Republican Party
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Kansas Republican Party
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| Chairman | Kelly Arnold |
| Governor | Sam Brownback |
| House leadership |
Ron Ryckman Jr. (Speaker) |
| Senate leadership |
Susan Wagle (President) |
| Founded | May 18, 1859 |
| Headquarters | 2605 SW 21st St Topeka, KS 66604 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Economic liberalism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Colors | Red (unofficial) |
| U.S. Senate |
2 / 2
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| U.S. House |
4 / 4
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| Statewides |
6 / 6
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| State Senate |
31 / 40
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| State House |
85 / 125
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Kansas Republican Party is the state affiliate political party in Kansas of the United States Republican Party. The Kansas Republican Party was organized in May 1859 and has been the dominant political party of Kansas ever since.
The current internal operating rules for the Kansas Republican Party and its biannual platform can be found on the party webpage: www.kansas.gop. The current Kansas Republican Party structure includes the following elements:
Party officers
Executive Committee Members:
Members of the Republican Party currently hold both U.S. Senate seats; all four U.S. House seats; all six statewide constitutional offices, and a super-majority in both the Kansas House of Representatives and the Kansas Senate.
Current Senators:
Current House members:
The Kansas Republican Party has dominated Kansas politics since Kansas statehood in 1861. Kansas has had 45 governors: 32 Republicans, 11 Democrats and 2 Populists. Kansas has had 33 U.S. Senators: 28 Republicans, 3 Democrats, and 2 Populists. The last time a Democrat was elected to the U.S. Senate from Kansas was in 1932. Since 1960, the Republicans have won 102 of 129 Congressional elections and have won 69 of 90 statewide elections. The Democrats have won control of the Kansas Senate only in the 1912 election and control of the Kansas House only three times in the 1912, 1976, and 1990 elections. Beginning with the 1968 election, Kansas has consistently voted for the Republican Presidential candidate and since 1860 has voted for the Republican presidential candidate 20 times, the Democrat six times and the Populist candidate once.
After the 2016 elections, Kansas was one of the few states with all its federal and statewide elected officials from the Republican Party. Since the 2010 election Kansas Republicans have gone 32-0 in federal and statewide elections.
Currently, of the 1.74 million registered voters in Kansas, about 45% registered as members of the Republican Party, about 25% registered as members of the Democratic Party, and about 30% registered as unaffiliated with any political party.
Kansas and the Republican Party owe their mutual existence to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, which repealed the Missouri Compromise. The Compromise had outlawed slavery above the 36⁰30' latitude in the Louisiana territories. Eliminating the Missouri Compromise left the question of whether Kansas would be a slave or free state up to the Kansas voters. Anti-slavery and pro-slavery settlers came into Kansas in order to influence the outcome of the first election. The conflict was violent, known to history as Bleeding Kansas. In 1855, the anti-slavery settlers organized themselves as the Free-State political party, which, in 1859, became the Kansas Republican Party.
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