{"id":106990,"date":"2026-11-04T11:31:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/?p=106990"},"modified":"2026-11-04T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T17:31:15","slug":"comanche-county-sees-57-percent-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/2026\/11\/04\/comanche-county-sees-57-percent-voter-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Comanche County Sees 57 Percent Voter Turnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Katee Underwood, Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comanche County voters cast 636 ballots in Tuesday’s general election, according to unofficial results released Nov. 3 by the Comanche County election office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The county has 1,113 registered voters, putting voter turnout at approximately 57.1 percent. Of the ballots reported, 15 were provisional ballots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republicans make up the largest share of registered voters in Comanche County, with 863 registered Republicans. The county also has 131 unaffiliated voters, 104 registered Democrats and 15 registered Libertarians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

District and county races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Kansas House of Representatives 116th District race, Republican Kyle D. Hoffman received 403 votes in Comanche County, while Democrat Nathan Bales received 185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the State Board of Education 7th District race, Republican Alana McWilliams received 476 votes, while Democrat Ann Zimmerman received 130.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the District 16, Division 1 District Court judge position, Sidney R. Thomas received 538 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Comanche County Commission District 1 race, Republican Zackery Ellis received 138 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The county clerk vacancy race saw Republican Abriana (Bri) Uhl receive 537 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Federal and state races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S. Senate race, Comanche County voters favored Republican Roger Marshall, who received 446 votes. Democrat Adam Hamilton received 149 votes, while Libertarian David Graham received 33.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the U.S. House of Representatives 4th District race, Republican Ron Estes received 507 votes in Comanche County. Democrat Katy Tyndell received 106 votes, and Libertarian Drew Cranmer received 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the governor’s race, Republican Ty Masterson and running mate Jeffrey Klemp received 488 votes. Democrat Cindy Holscher and running mate Chakra Ohaebosim received 142 votes in Comanche County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other state race results in the county included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secretary of State: Republican Pat Proctor, 461 votes; Democrat Jennifer Day, 118; United Kansas candidate Scott E. Morgan, 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attorney General: Republican Kris Kobach, 437 votes; Democrat Chris Mann, 171.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State Treasurer: Republican Steven Johnson, 506 votes; Democrat Juan C. Luengo, 83; Libertarian Eric Lund, 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commissioner of Insurance: Republican Daniel Hawkins, 449 votes; Democrat Dinah Sykes, 104; Libertarian Ric Koehn, 68.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Township races<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Township clerk positions were also included on the ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coldwater Township: Roy Hoffman received 304 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Powell Township: Clark Yost received 32 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protection Township: Becky Holler received 215 votes and Shirley Norton received 26 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Constitutional amendment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comanche County voters also considered a proposed constitutional amendment to require that voters be a citizen of the United States. The measure received 477 yes votes and 92 no votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Katee Underwood, Staff Writer Comanche County voters cast 636 ballots in Tuesday’s general election, according to unofficial results released Nov. 3 by the Comanche County election office. The county has 1,113 registered voters, putting voter turnout at approximately 57.1 percent. Of the ballots reported, 15 were provisional ballots. Republicans make up the largest share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9339],"tags":[13,9353,2939],"class_list":["post-106990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ccn","tag-breaking","tag-comanche-county","tag-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106991,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106990\/revisions\/106991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kcnonline.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}