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Kansas, State House, District 75

Kansas House of Representatives District 75
Current incumbentWill Carpenter Republican Party

Kansas' seventy-fifth state house district is represented by Republican Representative Will Carpenter.

Kansas state representatives represent an average of 22,825 residents. After the 2000 Census, each member represented 21,507 residents.

About the chamber

Members of the Kansas House of Representatives serve two-year terms and are not subject to term limits. Kansas legislators assume office the second Monday of January after their election.

Qualifications

Section 4 of Article 2 of the Kansas Constitution states, "During the time that any person is a candidate for nomination or election to the legislature and during the term of each legislator, such candidate or legislator shall be and remain a qualified elector who resides in his or her district."

Salaries

State legislators
SalaryPer diem
$88.66/day$144/day

Pension

As of 2011, when pensions are calculated for Kansas legislators, their normal annual salary is inflated by nearly $78,000. This is composed of $32,982, which comes from multiplying their daily salary by 372 (the number of days they would work if in session every day and if every month had 31 days), $45,756 from adding in their daily per diem (also based on 372 days) and $7,083 from expense payments. According to former state Senator Steve Morris, this is intended as compensation because of low legislative salaries which are seen as difficult to raise.

Vacancies

The Governor is responsible for filling all vacancies in the house.

The political party committee that last held the vacant seat must call for a convention within 21 days of the vacancy. The convention is designed to select the Governor's appointee and involves all the committeemen and committeewomen that represent the vacant house district.

The committeemen and committeewomen present for voting must approve a replacement on a simple majority vote. Once the vote has been conducted, the party committee must send the paperwork certifying the selection to the Governor within 24 hours or the next business day. The Governor has seven days after receiving the paperwork to act on the appointment.

Elections

2020

Elections for the office of Kansas House of Representatives will take place in 2020. The general election will be held on November 3, 2020. A primary is scheduled for August 4, 2020. The filing deadline is June 1, 2020.

2018

General election
General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 75

Will Carpenter (R) won election in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 75 on November 6, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes

Will Carpenter (R)
100
5,667

Total votes: 5,667
Democratic primary election

No Democratic candidates ran in the primary.

Republican primary election
Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 75

Will Carpenter defeated incumbent Mary Martha Good in the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 75 on August 7, 2018.

Candidate
%
Votes

Will Carpenter (R)
60.0
1,770

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Mary Martha Good (R)
40.0
1,181

Total votes: 2,951

2016

Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives were held in 2016. The primary election was held on August 2, 2016, and the general election was held on November 8, 2016. The candidate filing deadline was June 1, 2016.

Mary Martha Good ran unopposed in the Kansas House of Representatives District 75 general election.

Kansas House of Representatives, District 75 General Election, 2016

Party Candidate
Republican Green check mark transparent.png Mary Martha Good (unopposed)
Source: Kansas Secretary of State


Mary Martha Good defeated incumbent Will Carpenter in the Kansas House of Representatives District 75 Republican primary.

Kansas House of Representatives, District 75 Republican Primary, 2016

Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Republican Green check mark transparent.png Mary Martha Good 50.59% 1,754
Republican Will Carpenter Incumbent 49.41% 1,713
Total Votes 3,467

Primary election

In the primary elections held on August 2, 2016, six incumbents were defeated in the state Senate, while nine incumbents were defeated in the state House. Outside of the one incumbent Democrat who was defeated in the House, moderates defeated 14 conservative Republican incumbents in the primary. Before the 2016 primary, moderate Republicans had been losing ground in the state legislature since the 2010 election of Gov. Sam Brownback (R), shifting from a more moderate Republican-controlled state legislature to a more conservative one after the 2012 elections. Eighteen Republican incumbents were defeated in the conservative wave in 2012. Will Carpenter was one of 14 Republican incumbents who were defeated in the 2016 primary.

2014

Elections for the Kansas House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election was held on August 5, 2014, and a general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 2, 2014. Kari Ratliff was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Incumbent Will Carpenter was unopposed in the Republican primary. Carpenter defeated Ratliff in the general election.

Kansas House of Representatives District 75, General Election, 2014

Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Republican Green check mark transparent.pngWill Carpenter Incumbent 69% 4,417
Democratic Kari Ratliff 31% 1,980
Total Votes 6,397

2012

Elections for the office of Kansas House of Representatives consisted of a primary election on August 7, 2012, and a general election on November 6, 2012. The signature-filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was June 11, 2012. Will Carpenter (R) defeated Suzanne Scribner (D) in the general election and defeated Karen Hasting in the Republican primary. Scribner was unopposed in the Democratic primary.

Kansas House of Representatives, District 75, General Election, 2012

Party Candidate Vote % Votes
Republican Green check mark transparent.pngWill Carpenter 65.2% 5,329
Democratic Suzanne Scribner 34.8% 2,840
Total Votes 8,169

Kansas House of Representatives, District 75 Republican Primary, 2012

Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.pngWill Carpenter 69.7% 2,002
Karen Hasting 30.3% 869
Total Votes 2,871

Campaign contributions

From 2002 to 2016, candidates for Kansas House of Representatives District 75 raised a total of $306,455. Candidates who raised money in contributions earned $13,930 on average. All figures come from Follow the Money.

Campaign contributions, Kansas House of Representatives District 75

Year Amount Candidates Average
2016 $41,979 2 $20,990
2014 $17,585 2 $8,793
2012 $29,073 4 $7,268
2010 $36,755 2 $18,378
2008 $49,017 2 $24,509
2006 $50,498 2 $25,249
2004 $41,219 3 $13,740
2002 $34,404 4 $8,601
2000 $5,925 1 $5,925
Total $306,455 22 $13,930