All 125 seats in the Kansas House are up for election on Nov. 5, 2024. Republicans hold an 85-39 majority in the House, with one vacancy, and members will be elected to two-year terms.

With more than two-third control in each chamber, Republicans hold a veto-proof majority, giving them the power to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s (D) veto. It is one of four states with a veto-proof majority of one party and a governor of another, along with Kentucky, North Carolina, and Vermont, and one of ten states with a divided government. 

Kansas City News Service’s Zane Irwin said the partisan composition of the Legislature could have implications on the state’s abortion policies. In 2022, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have prohibited the state from adding a Constitutional right to abortion. In 2024, the Legislature overrode Gov. Kelly’s veto on HB2749, which requires health care providers to ask patients questions about why they are getting an abortion.

Democrats would need to gain three House seats or three Senate seats to block a Republican supermajority. To maintain their supermajority, Republicans would need to lose fewer than two House seats and fewer than three Senate seats.

Irwin also said, “Right now we have a multi-tiered tax system, and Republicans would like to bring it to where there’s one rate that you pay in Kansas whether you are a low-income individual or are a millionaire. Republicans say that would provide broad-base tax relief..Democrats say that it would bring us back to a more austere era under Gov. Sam Brownback (R) where there were major tax cuts, and Democrats were worried that that would cause cuts to social services like schools and roads.”

There are 20 open seats in the House, slightly more than the 19.6 open seats per year since Ballotpedia began tracking this data in 2010.

Ballotpedia identified 23 battleground districts. Currently, Republicans represent 17 of those battleground districts and Democrats represent six. Click here to read more about the battleground elections.

Three incumbents lost in the primaries. Two of those incumbents lost against first-time House candidates, and one lost to a former House member. Click here to learn more.

The Kansas House is one of 85 state legislative chambers with elections in 2024. There are 99 chambers throughout the country.