| The Green Papers: 2018 General Election |
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| Kansas 4 year term, Election Cycle: 2014, 2018. Term Limit: 2 consecutive 4-year terms | |||||
| Partisan Composition: 1 Republican | |||||
 Lost |
Republican | Governor Jeff Colyer • Ascended to the Governor's Chair 31 January 2018 [re: Governor Samuel D. "Sam" Brownback's (Republican) confirmation on 24 January 2018 as Ambassador for Religious Freedom in the Trump Administration]. • Chair up for regular election: Tuesday 6 November 2018 • The current Governor is unaffected by the State's term limit. • Lost Primary / No Longer Running |
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| ** Open Chair (no incumbent) ** | |||||
| Governor Samuel D. "Sam" Brownback (Republican), who was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014, resigned on 31 January 2018 to become Ambassador for Religious Freedom in the Trump Administration. 27 July 2017: Nominated for Ambassador for Religious Freedom in the Trump Administration. 24 January 2018: Confirmed as Ambassador for Religious Freedom in the Trump Administration by the U.S. Senate 50-49. 31 January 2018: Governor Samuel D. "Sam" Brownback (Republican) resigns and Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer (Republican) ascends to the Governor's Chair. | |||||
| Political Parties Parties appear in parenthesis and italics when a candidate receives the endorsement of a given Party and/or official sources indicate a candidate's association with a particular Party but only where the Party in question does not appear on the actual ballot as such. |
| Major Parties | |
| • Democratic | |
| • Democratic-Farmer Labor | |
| • Republican | |
| Major Third Parties | |
| • Constitution | |
| • Green | |
| • Libertarian | |
| • Reform | |
| • Wisconsin Green | |
| Other Third Parties | |
| • Clear Water Party of Iowa | |
| • Compassion | |
| • Conservative | |
| • Earth Rights | |
| • Grassroots - Legalize Cannabis | |
| • Griebel Frank for CT | |
| • Humanitarian | |
| • Independence | |
| • Independent American | |
| • Independent Party of Connecticut | |
| • Independent Party of Oregon | |
| • Liberty Union | |
| • Marijuana | |
| • Moderate | |
| • Natural Law | |
| • Progressive | |
| • Republican Takeover | |
| • Serve America Movement | |
| • Socialist Workers Party | |
| • U.S. Taxpayers | |
| • Unity | |
| • Women's Equality | |
| • Working Families | |
| Independents | |
| • Independent | |
| • No Affiliation | |
| • No Party Affiliation | |
| • No Political Party | |
| • None | |
| • Nonpartisan | |
| • Petition | |
| • The Wisconsin Party | |
| • Unenrolled | |
| Write-in/Scattered/otherwise not readily classifiable | |
| • None of these candidates | |
| • Not readily classifiable | |
| • Scattering | |
| • Write-in | |
| Notes |
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Candidates for office appear on this page in italics where 'The Green Papers' does not yet have independent confirmation from a legal election authority that the person has been officially certified to appear on the ballot. |