Joplin: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects state Auditor (the only statewide office); U.S. Representative MO-7; Missouri Senate SD-32 (Carter (I) R v Curl D); Missouri House HD-161 (open: Secker R v Metzger D) and, elsewhere in Jasper County, HD-127, HD-162, HD-163; Jasper County offices (Presiding Commissioner, Eastern District Commissioner, Circuit Clerk, County Clerk, Recorder, Prosecuting Attorney, Collector, Auditor, associate circuit judges); constitutional amendments and judicial retention. No U.S. Senate or Governor race in Missouri in 2026. No City of Joplin office or question appears on the Jasper County ballots..

Holding office7
the sitting council
On the ballot10
3 sitting members running again

The official candidate list ↗ · What Joplin is like — the /local page

Congressional district (city hall): Missouri's 7th congressional district (city hall) — Eric Burlison (Republican)

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Governor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Mike Kehoe Elected Governor Republican Office of Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe
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State Auditor

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Scott Fitzpatrick Elected State Auditor → Running Republican Missouri SOS
Dustin Coffell State Auditor Running Libertarian Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
Quentin Wilson State Auditor Running Democratic Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
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State Representative — HD-161

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Lane Roberts Elected State Representative Republican Missouri House of Representatives
Aaron Joseph Metzger State Representative Running Democratic Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
Louise Secker State Representative Running Republican Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
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State Senator — SD-32

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Jill Carter Elected State Senator → Running Republican Missouri Senate
Imma J Curl State Senator Running Democratic Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
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U.S. Senator

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Eric Schmitt Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators, legislators-current.json (row carried over from us-springfield-mo, read 2026-10-29)
Josh Hawley Elected U.S. Senator Republican @unitedstates congress-legislators, legislators-current.json (row carried over from us-springfield-mo, read 2026-10-29)
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U.S. Representative — MO-7

NameOfficeParty / slateSeatSource
Eric Burlison Elected U.S. Representative → Running Republican U.S. House
Kevin Craig U.S. Representative Running Libertarian Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
Missi Hesketh U.S. Representative Running Democratic Jasper County Clerk (Missouri)
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Notes on this record

How the lists were read, and what could not be.

  • Candidates: Jasper County Clerk 'SAMPLE BALLOTS for the November 3rd, 2026 General Election' (24 ballot styles; HD-161 on two styles, identical). Party as printed (REP/DEM/LIB/IND); write-ins excluded. HD-161: Louise Secker (REP), Aaron Joseph Metzger (DEM). SD-32: Jill Carter (REP), Imma J Curl (DEM). MO-7: Eric W. Burlison (REP), Missi Hesketh (DEM), Kevin Craig (LIB) — same three as the SOS certification read for us-springfield-mo. State Auditor: Scott Fitzpatrick (REP), Quentin Wilson (DEM), Dustin Coffell (LIB).
  • Districts: Census geocoder at Joplin city hall (602 S Main St) → CD-7, SD-32, HD-161 (120th Congress and 2026 state legislative layers); city-centre point (37.0842,-94.5130) gives the same. Not point-sampled: Joplin spans Jasper and Newton counties, so other House districts (the Jasper ballots also carry HD-127, HD-162 and HD-163) may cover parts of the city; not established.
  • Sitting members: Burlison from house.gov/representatives (read 2026-10-31); Jill Carter from senate.mo.gov (senators list + member page, read 2026-10-31); Lane Roberts from house.mo.gov MemberGridCluster (read 2026-10-31 after the 120 s crawl delay). Hawley, Schmitt, Kehoe and Fitzpatrick rows carried over from us-springfield-mo (read 2026-10-29).
  • City of Joplin: www.joplinmo.org returned a Cloudflare 'Attention Required' block (HTTP 403) to robots.txt itself; nothing else on the host was requested, so the Mayor and City Council are NOT recorded. Joplin's municipal elections are not on the November ballot (no City of Joplin item on any Jasper County ballot style); the next city election date could not be read.
  • Robots/terms: geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt), jaspercountymo.gov (allows), house.gov (allows /representatives), senate.mo.gov (allows), house.mo.gov (crawl-delay 120 honoured, no query URLs). BLOCKED: www.sos.mo.gov (Cloudflare challenge on robots.txt; the certified-candidate PDF URL was requested in the same step and was also challenged — nothing read), www.joplinmo.org (Cloudflare). Sample ballots and the House grid print no candidate addresses used here; office phones not copied. standsFor null for everyone.
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Sources

Prepared 2026-10-31. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.