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2014 Kansas gubernatorial election
The
2014 Kansas
gubernatorial election
took place on
November 4
, 2014, to elect the
Governor of Kansas
, concurrently with the
election
of Kansas' Class II U.S. Senate seat, as well as other elections to the
United States Senate
in other states and elections to the
United States House of Representatives
and various state and local elections.
Incumbent
Republican
Governor
Sam Brownback
ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed in the general election by
Democrat
Paul Davis
, the Minority Leader of the
Kansas House of Representatives
, and Libertarian attorney Keen Umbehr.
The election was viewed as a referendum on Brownback's aggressive tax cutting initiatives and his conservative values. The consensus among
The
Cook Political Report
,
Governing
,
The
Rothenberg Political Report
,
Sabato's
Crystal Ball
,
Daily Kos
Elections
, and others was that
the contest
was a tossup. Brownback won the election by a margin of 3.7%. Davis carried seven counties, all in eastern Kansas, five of which are home to four-year
state universities
.
Republican primary
Candidates
Declared
Sam Brownback, incumbent Governor
Jennifer Winn, businesswoman
Declined
Kris Kobach
,
Secretary of State of Kansas
Steve Morris
, former President of the
Kansas Senate
Sandy Praeger
,
Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Polling
Results
Democratic primary
Candidates
Declared
Paul Davis, Minority Leader of the Kansas
House of Representatives
Declined
Carl Brewer
,
mayor
of
Wichita
Jill Docking, businesswoman, former member of the
Kansas Board of Regents
and nominee for the U.S. Senate
in 1996
Tom Holland
,
state senator
and nominee for
governor
in
2010
Deb Miller
, former secretary of the
Kansas Department of Transportation
Stephen Morris
, former Republican President of the Kansas Senate
Mark Parkinson
, former governor, president and CEO of the
American Health Care Association
and the National Center for
Assisted Living
Sandy Praeger, Republican Kansas Insurance Commissioner
Joe Reardon
, former mayor of
Kansas City
Joshua Svaty
, vice president of
The Land Institute
and former
Secretary of Agriculture of Kansas
Results
Libertarian nomination
Candidates
Declared
Keen Umbehr, attorney
General election
Debates
,
September 6
, 2014 -
C-SPAN
, October 21, 2014 - C-SPAN
Endorsements
Predictions
Polling
Hypothetical polling
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Results