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Laura Jeanne Kelly (born January 24, 1950) [1] [2] is an American politician serving as the 48th governor of Kansas since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party , she represented the 18th district in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2019. [ 3 ]
The Kansas State Cabinet, under current Governor Laura Kelly, consists of the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, the Adjutant General, the Superintendent of Highway Patrol, and eleven departments each headed by a Secretary. Lieutenant Governor – chief deputy to the Governor, responsible for acting as Governor during the Governor's absence.
Gov. Laura Kelly's approval rating in Kansas is on the rise at 62%. A local political expert attributes her travels around the state and efforts to act as a check on Republican legislative power.
Incumbent Democratic Governor Laura Kelly is term-limited and ineligible to seek a third consecutive term. This will be one of five Democratic-held governorships up for election in 2026 in a state that Donald Trump won in the 2024 presidential election and the only one of those states that Trump won by a double-digit margin.
Kansas Governor Laura Kelly enters the House chamber for the State of the State address at the Kansas State Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Topeka, Kansas.
Alongside Kansas Governor Laura Kelly and Missouri Governor Mike Parson, right, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas spoke about the importance of welcoming immigrants at a news conference last year ...
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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. [2] Governor Laura Kelly won re-election to a second term, defeating Republican State Attorney General Derek Schmidt in the general election by a margin of roughly 2.2 percentage points.