2022 Kansas gubernatorial election
November 8, 2022
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| Turnout | 47.94% | |||||||||||||||||||
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Kelly: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Schmidt: 40–50% 50–60% 60–70% 70–80% 80–90% >90% Pyle: 60–70% >90% Tie: 30–40% 40–50% 50% No votes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Kansas, with primary elections taking place on August 2, 2022. Governor Laura Kelly won election to a second term, defeating Republican State Attorney General and future U.S. Representative Derek Schmidt in the general election by a margin of roughly 2.2 percentage points. This was the only statewide victory in 2022 for Democrats in Kansas.
This was the only Democratic-held governorship up for election in 2022 in a state Donald Trump won in the 2020 presidential election, and the race was expected to be one of the most competitive gubernatorial races in the nation. Some analysts and Kansas Republican Party officials had also predicted that Dennis Pyle, who was on the ballot as an independent, would have a spoiler effect benefiting Kelly. This was the first gubernatorial election in Kansas since 1986 in which the winner was from the same party as the incumbent president, and the first since 1978 that it was a Democrat.