John Doll (Kansas)
2017 - Present
2025
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John Doll (Republican Party) is a member of the Kansas State Senate, representing District 39. He assumed office on January 9, 2017. His current term ends on January 13, 2025.
Doll (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the Kansas State Senate to represent District 39. He won in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Doll changed his party affiliation from Republican to independent in March 2018 to run for lieutenant governor in 2018. He ran on a joint ticket with gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman. He rejoined the Republican Party in 2019.
Doll is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 123 from 2013 to 2017.
Biography
John Doll was born in Ingalls, Kansas. He earned a degree from St. Mary of the Plains College in 1979. Doll’s career experience includes working as a teacher and a coach with K-12 schools. He was elected to serve as a member of the Garden City Commission and as the Mayor of Garden City.[1]
Committee assignments
2023-2024
Doll was assigned to the following committees:
- Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
- Commerce Committee
- Senate Local Government Committee
- Transparency and Ethics Committee
2021-2022
Doll was assigned to the following committees:
- Corrections and Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee
- Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee
- Commerce Committee
- Senate Local Government Committee
- Transparency and Ethics Committee
2017 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2017 legislative session, this legislator served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2017 |
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| • Education, Vice chair |
| • Ethics, Elections, and Local Government |
| • Transportation, Vice chair |
| • Ways and Means |
| • Kansas Security |
2015 legislative session
At the beginning of the 2015 legislative session, Doll served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2015 |
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| • Insurance |
| • Utilities and Telecommunications |
| • Transportation |
| • Telecommunications Study |
2013-2014
At the beginning of the 2013 legislative session, Doll served on the following committees:
| Kansas committee assignments, 2013 |
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| • Insurance |
| • Utilities and Telecommunications |
| • Transportation |
Sponsored legislation
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Elections
2020
See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2020
General election
General election for Kansas State Senate District 39
Incumbent John Doll won election in the general election for Kansas State Senate District 39 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | John Doll (R) | 100.0 | 20,891 | |
| Total votes: 20,891 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 39
Incumbent John Doll defeated Lon Pishny in the Republican primary for Kansas State Senate District 39 on August 4, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | John Doll | 57.6 | 5,870 | |
 | Lon Pishny | 42.4 | 4,327 | |
| Total votes: 10,197 | ||||
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2018
See also: Kansas gubernatorial and lieutenant gubernatorial election, 2018
General election
General election for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
Lynn Rogers defeated Wink Hartman, John Doll, Mary Gerlt, and Nathaniel Kloos in the general election for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lynn Rogers (D) | 48.0 | 506,727 | |
| Wink Hartman (R) | 43.0 | 453,645 | ||
| John Doll (Independent) | 6.5 | 68,590 | ||
| Mary Gerlt (L) | 1.9 | 20,020 | ||
| Nathaniel Kloos (Independent) | 0.6 | 6,584 | |
| Total votes: 1,055,566 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
Lynn Rogers defeated Chris Morrow, Katrina Lewison, Dale Cowsert, and Alexander Cline in the Democratic primary for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Lynn Rogers | 51.4 | 80,377 | |
| Chris Morrow | 20.2 | 31,493 | |
| Katrina Lewison | 17.5 | 27,292 | |
| Dale Cowsert | 8.4 | 13,161 | |
| Alexander Cline | 2.5 | 3,950 | ||
| Total votes: 156,273 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for Lieutenant Governor of Kansas on August 7, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Wink Hartman | 40.6 | 128,832 | |
| Tracey Mann | 40.5 | 128,489 | ||
| Rosie Hansen | 8.8 | 27,994 | |
| Jen Sanderson | 7.8 | 24,804 | |
| Patricia Reitz | 1.0 | 3,212 | |
| Dominic Scavuzzo | 0.7 | 2,275 | |
| Phillip Clemente | 0.5 | 1,559 | |
| Total votes: 317,165 | ||||
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2016
- See also: Kansas State Senate elections, 2016
Elections for the Kansas State Senate took place 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.
John Doll defeated A. Zacheriah Worf in the Kansas State Senate District 39 general election.[2][3]
| Kansas State Senate, District 39 General Election, 2016 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican |  John Doll |
79.02% | 12,884 | |
| Democratic | A. Zacheriah Worf | 20.98% | 3,421 | |
| Total Votes | 16,305 | |||
| Source: Kansas Secretary of State | ||||
A. Zacheriah Worf ran unopposed in the Kansas State Senate District 39 Democratic primary.[4][5]
| Kansas State Senate, District 39 Democratic Primary, 2016 | ||
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| Party | Candidate | |
| Democratic | A. Zacheriah Worf (unopposed) | |
John Doll defeated incumbent Larry Powell in the Kansas State Senate District 39 Republican primary.[4][5]
| Kansas State Senate, District 39 Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Republican | John Doll |
52.35% | 4,664 | |
| Republican | Larry Powell Incumbent | 47.65% | 4,246 | |
| Total Votes | 8,910 | |||
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. Larry Powell 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. Incumbent John Doll was unopposed in the Republican primary and was unopposed in the general election.[6][7]
2012
Doll won election in the 2012 election for Kansas House of Representatives District 123. Although incumbent Reynaldo R. Mesa withdrew from the race, Doll technically defeated him in the August 7 Republican primary, as Mesa was not taken off the ballot. He was unopposed in the general election, which took place on November 6, 2012.[8][9]
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes |
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John Doll |
70.3% | 1,457 |
| Reynaldo R. Mesa Incumbent | 29.7% | 615 |
| Total Votes | 2,072 | |
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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2016
Doll's campaign website highlighted the following issues:[10]
Education
- Excerpt: "Education is the only function of government protected by the state's constitution, and funding for that education should focus on the whole child. It is past time for those of us in the legislature to go to work to create a new formula that gives teachers and students the resources they need to be successful throughout their entire lives."
Infrastructure
- Excerpt: "I believe it is time to stop robbing the Bank of KDOT before one of the area's key economic advantages, good, safe infrastructure, becomes damaged beyond repair."
Seniors
- Excerpt: "As a result of the tax increase, those Southwest Kansans on a fixed-income, our seniors, are forced to pay the highest sales tax on food in the country. We cannot continue to pay for an unbalanced tax system on the backs of our seniors, and I will continue to work tirelessly to make sure that we don't."
Protecting the people
- Excerpt: "Southwest Kansans deserve to be able to enjoy their communities in safety and comfort. I believe that the state of Kansas should be working to help make those communities safer."
Children
- Excerpt: "I believe that the state’s most vulnerable people, children, deserve to be given every chance to succeed, and that means protecting valuable programs like Head Start and the Kansas Early Childhood Block Grant from short-sighted budget gimmicks like selling the state's tobacco settlement to Wall Street investors."
Healthcare
- Excerpt: "The state of Kansas has left hundreds of millions of federal dollars on the table, despite the people of Kansas providing much of that money ourselves with our tax dollars, and our local hospitals are suffering. We must do everything we can to keep the hospitals in those communities, because if they go away, they will not come back."
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2023
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In 2023, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 9 to April 28.
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2022
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In 2022, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 10 to May 23.
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2021
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In 2021, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 11 to May 26.
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2020
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In 2020, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 13 to May 21. A special session convened from June 3 to June 4.
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2019
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In 2019, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 14 through May 29.
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2018
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In 2018, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 8 through April 7.
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2017
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In 2017, the Kansas State Legislature was in session from January 9 through June 26.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
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Candidate Kansas State Senate District 39 |
Officeholder Kansas State Senate District 39 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Facebook, "John Doll for Kansas Lieutenant Governor," accessed February 27, 2020
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed August 23, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 General Election official results," accessed December 19, 2016
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "Candidate list," accessed June 3, 2016
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Kansas Secretary of State, "2016 Official Kansas Primary Election Results," accessed September 12, 2016
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 Primary Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed September 15, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2014 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed April 17, 2015
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 Primary Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ Kansas Secretary of State, "2012 General Election - Official Vote Totals," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ John Doll, "The Issues," accessed June 16, 2016
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Kansas State Senate District 39 2017-Present |
Succeeded by - |
| Preceded by - |
Kansas House of Representatives District 123 2013-2017 |
Succeeded by - |
