Kansas City: who represents it, and who is running

U.S. general election (federal, state and county offices) votes on 2026-11-03. It elects u.S. Representatives for MO-4, MO-5 and MO-6; State Auditor (the only statewide office); even-numbered Missouri Senate seats (city hall's SD-7 is not up) and all 163 Missouri House seats (city hall: HD-23); Jackson/Clay/Platte/Cass county offices (Jackson County Executive and County Legislature on the KCEB ballot); judicial retention; Constitutional Amendments 3, 6, 7 and 8; Proposition A (referendum on HB 1, the 2025 congressional map; on the KCEB sample ballot); Jackson County Question 1 (COMBAT sales tax). No U.S. Senate or Governor race in Missouri in 2026. No City of Kansas City offices..

Holding office22

the sitting council

On the ballot13

3 sitting members running again

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

Congressional district (city hall): Missouri's 5th congressional district (city hall, 414 E 12th St) under the 2022 map in force for the November 2026 election; the city spans MO-5, MO-6 and a sliver of MO-4 — Mark Alford (Republican)

Mayor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Quinton Lucas Elected	Mayor	Independent		City of Kansas City, Missouri

Councilmember

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Crispin Rea ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	4th District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Darrell Curls ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	5th District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Eric Bunch Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-4	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Johnathan Duncan Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-6	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Kevin McManus ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	6th District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Kevin O'Neill Elected	Councilmember	Independent	1st District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Lindsay French ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	2nd District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Melissa Patterson Hazley ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	3rd District At-Large	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Melissa Robinson Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-3	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Nathan Willett ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-1	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Ryana Parks-Shaw Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-5	City of Kansas City, Missouri
Wes Rogers ✉️ Elected	Councilmember	Independent	HD-2	City of Kansas City, Missouri

Governor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Mike Kehoe Elected	Governor	Republican		Office of Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe

State Auditor

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Scott Fitzpatrick Elected	State Auditor → Running	Republican	Missouri State Auditor's Office
Dustin Coffell	State Auditor Running	Libertarian	Missouri Secretary of State
Quentin Wilson	State Auditor Running	Democratic	Missouri Secretary of State

State Representative — HD-23

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Michael Johnson ✉️ Elected	State Representative	Democratic		Missouri House of Representatives
Tony L. Van Trece acclaimed	State Representative Running	Democratic		Missouri Secretary of State

State Senator — SD-7

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Patty Lewis ✉️ Elected	State Senator	Democratic		Missouri Senate

U.S. Senator

Name	Office	Party / slate	Seat	Source
Eric Schmitt Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican		@unitedstates congress-legislators, legislators-current.json (senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to this client)
Josh Hawley Elected	U.S. Senator	Republican		@unitedstates congress-legislators, legislators-current.json (senate.gov returned HTTP 403 to this client)

U.S. Representative — MO-4

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Mark Alford Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Jordan Herrera	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Missouri Secretary of State
Thomas Holbrook	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Missouri Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — MO-5

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Emanuel Cleaver Elected	U.S. Representative → Running	Democratic	U.S. House of Representatives
Randall (Randy) Langkraehr	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Missouri Secretary of State
Rick Brattin	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Missouri Secretary of State

U.S. Representative — MO-6

Name	Office	Party / slate	Source
Sam Graves Elected	U.S. Representative	Republican	U.S. House of Representatives
Andy Maidment	U.S. Representative Running	Libertarian	Missouri Secretary of State
Chris Stigall	U.S. Representative Running	Republican	Missouri Secretary of State
Josh Smead	U.S. Representative Running	Democratic	Missouri Secretary of State

Notes on this record

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

Candidates: Missouri Secretary of State 'Certification of Candidates and Party Emblems' for the November 3, 2026 general election, certified August 25, 2026 (PDF, read 2026-10-22). Parties certified: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian; two independents (HD-127, HD-128) — none in Kansas City offices recorded here. No Green candidates. The certification prints candidate addresses — none copied. Cross-checked against the Kansas City Election Board (KCEB) sample ballot (Jackson County part of the city, revised September 14, 2026, linked from kceb.org to a public Google Drive PDF): it matches for MO-5, State Auditor and the 11 state house districts it lists. Write-ins and primary losers excluded.
CONGRESSIONAL MAP — CONTESTED: Missouri's 2025 mid-decade map (HB 1) was used in the August 4, 2026 primary. On Sept 3, 2026 the Missouri Supreme Court ordered the referendum onto the Nov 3 ballot and held the 2022 map in force for November; a federal TRO (Sept 8, Judge Clark) ordered HB 1 instead; the U.S. Supreme Court stayed that TRO on Sept 10 (news reports; not read from court sites). KCEB's own notice of Sept 22, 2026 says 'Right now, we must use the 2022 congressional map', that Sept 28 was a key court date and the map could still change. No later KCEB update was found on 2026-10-22. The sitting members and districts here use the 2022 map. Either way, Kansas City is covered by MO-4, MO-5 and MO-6, so the candidate list is the same; only which parts of the city vote in which district changes.
Districts covering the city: Census TIGERweb Kansas City place polygon (GEOID 2938000) sampled on a 150x150 grid (9,611 points inside the city). 2022 map (TIGERweb layer '119th Congressional Districts'): MO-5 6,681, MO-6 2,900 (north of the river, Clay/Platte), MO-4 30 (Cass County sliver). 2025 HB 1 map (TIGERweb '120th'): MO-6 5,006, MO-5 2,905, MO-4 1,699 — Census places city hall in MO-4 on that layer. State legislature (2026 layers): about 8 senate districts (17, 9, 34, 7, 11, 8, 31, 21) and about 22 house districts cover the city; only city hall's SD-7 and HD-23 are recorded as people. Slivers can be missed by a grid.
Sitting U.S. Representatives from house.gov/representatives (Missouri table, 2026-10-22). senate.gov returned HTTP 403 (not bypassed) — Senators Hawley and Schmitt taken from the CC0 @unitedstates legislators-current.json. Sam Graves (MO-6) and HD-23's Michael Johnson are not on the general-election certification: open seats. No federal photos linked.
Municipal: kcmo.gov returns Akamai 'Access Denied' (HTTP 403) to curl and WebFetch, including robots.txt — not bypassed, so no city photos or mayor/council web pages. Mayor and 12 councilmembers instead from the City Clerk's Legistar (clerk.kcmo.gov People; Council body office records via the public Legistar Web API: 13 current records ending 2027-07-31). Seat labels from the City Clerk's certification of the June 20, 2023 municipal general election (Legistar matter 230596 attachment; page 1 is a scan stored upside-down). Kevin McManus was appointed 2026-09-03 to the vacant 6th District At-Large seat (Resolution 260832), succeeding Andrea Bough. Emails are official kcmo.org addresses from Legistar; one Legistar person row (a non-council appointee) shows a company address and is not used. Kansas City elections are non-partisan: party null, partyShort 'None'.
Next Kansas City municipal election (Mayor and all 12 council seats; terms end 2027-07-31): 2027. In 2023 the primary was on Missouri's April municipal election day and the general on June 20, 2023 (City Clerk certification). By the same pattern 2027 would be a primary on April 6, 2027 and a general in June 2027. That pattern is an inference — no 2027 date was read from KCEB or the City Clerk. No City of Kansas City offices are on the 2026-11-03 ballot.
Robots/terms: sos.mo.gov (allows /CMSImages), kceb.org (allows; WordPress), house.gov (allows), senate.mo.gov (allows /Senators), house.mo.gov (allows member pages), governor.mo.gov and auditor.mo.gov (allow), tigerweb/geocoding.geo.census.gov (no robots.txt), clerk.kcmo.gov and webapi.legistar.com (robots.txt 404 — no rules), kcmo.gov (403 Akamai), senate.gov (403). No source states a reuse licence except the CC0 legislators file. The KCEB sample ballot was read from Google Drive through kceb.org's own public link, without logging in.
No home addresses, phones or personal emails recorded. standsFor null for everyone (no candidate statements read). Photos linked only for the Governor, SD-7 and HD-23; none copied.

Sources

Prepared 2026-10-22. Nomination papers are never opened: they carry home addresses. After voting day a candidate list becomes a result; these rows are reconciled, not deleted.