What's on Your Jackson County Ballot — November 3, 2026
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This page lists only the races and questions that actually appear on a Jackson County, Missouri ballot — it leaves out the rest of the statewide Nov 2026 Missouri elections page that don't reach Jackson County voters. Not every district or item below appears on every Jackson County ballot — your exact ballot depends on which precinct, city, and school/fire district you live in, so always confirm with your personal sample ballot at jcebmo.org (unincorporated county, Independence, Blue Springs, Lee's Summit, Raytown, Grandview, etc.) or kceb.org (if you live inside Kansas City limits). This was compiled in late August 2026; some items (the exact judges up for retention, and the final wording of the county sales-tax measure) won't be published by election officials until closer to Election Day.
The candidates listed on this page are those our group is prepared to support. Additional candidates — including Republican opponents in some of these races — may appear on your ballot who are not listed here. Amendment recommendations were made by the Jackson County Progressive Society's Administrative Team and do not necessarily reflect the views of all of our members.
A Unopposed tag means no candidate from another party filed for that seat — that candidate is effectively already elected.
United States House of Representatives
| District | Photo | Name/Website | Party/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 |  | Jordan Herrera (FB) | Democrat — Southeast Jackson County |
| 5 |  | Emanuel Cleaver II (FB) | Democrat — Incumbent — most of Kansas City / Jackson County |
Missouri State Senate
Jackson County is covered by Senate Districts 7, 8, 9, and 11 — but Missouri Senate seats are staggered, and only the even-numbered districts are up for election in 2026. That means District 8 is the only Jackson County Senate seat on this year's ballot; Districts 7, 9, and 11 aren't up again until 2028.
| District | Photo | Name/Website | Party/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 |  | Keri Ingle (FB) | Democrat |
Missouri House of Representatives
| District | Photo | Name/Website | Party/Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 |  | Wick Thomas (FB) | (KCMO) — Democrat — Incumbent |
| 20 |  | Jeff Spicer (FB) | (KCMO / Independence / Sugar Creek) — Democrat |
| 21 |  | Will Jobe (FB) | (KCMO / Independence) — Democrat — Incumbent |
| 22 |  | Yolanda Young (FB) | Democrat — Incumbent Unopposed |
| 23 |  | Tony L. Van Trece | Democrat Unopposed |
| 24 |  | Kevin Garner (FB) | (KCMO) — Democrat Unopposed |
| 25 |  | Pattie Mansur (FB) | (KCMO) — Democrat — Incumbent Unopposed |
| 26 |  | Tiffany Price (FB) | (Raytown) — Democrat — Incumbent Unopposed |
| 27 |  | Melissa Douglas (FB) | (Raytown) — Democrat — Incumbent Unopposed |
| 28 |  | Donna Barnes (FB) | (Raytown / South KC) — Democrat — Incumbent |
| 29 |  | Tedi H. Rowland (FB) | (Independence) — Democrat |
| 30 |  | Kevin Grover (FB) | (Independence / Lee's Summit) — Democrat |
| 31 |  | Justin Geiser (FB) | Democrat |
| 32 |  | Jennifer Cassidy (FB) | Democrat |
| 33 |  | Troy Latterell (FB) | (Eastern Jackson Co.) — Democrat |
| 34 |  | Kemp Strickler (FB) | (Lee's Summit) — Democrat — Incumbent |
| 35 |  | Michael Scott (FB) | (Lee's Summit) — Democrat |
| 36 |  | Anthony T. Ealy Jr. (FB) | (Grandview) — Democrat — Incumbent |
| 37 |  | Karissa Marie Varga (FB) | (South KC) — Democrat Unopposed |
Missouri State Auditor
Statewide row office — on every Missouri ballot, including Jackson County.
| Name / Website | Party |
|---|---|
| Quentin Wilson (FB) | Democrat |
Jackson County Executive
| Photo | Name / Website | Party |
|---|---|---|
 | Stacy Lake (FB) | Democrat |
Jackson County Legislature
The Legislature has six district seats plus three at-large seats.
| Seat | Photo | Name | Party |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st District |  | Kelly Thompson (FB) | Democrat Unopposed |
| 2nd District |  | Venessa Huskey (FB) | Democrat — Incumbent Unopposed |
| 3rd District |  | Phyllis Hernandez (FB) | Democrat |
| 4th District |  | Byron Townsend | Democrat |
| 5th District |  | Antoine Jennings (FB) | Democrat — (Eastern Jackson Co.) — open seat |
| 6th District |  | Tony Lawson (FB) | Democrat |
| 1st At-Large |  | Carla Fields (FB) | Democrat |
| 2nd At-Large |  | Donna Peyton | Democrat — Incumbent |
| 3rd At-Large |  | Susan B. Wilson (FB) | Democrat Unopposed |
Judicial Retention (16th Judicial Circuit)
Jackson County uses Missouri's Nonpartisan Court Plan for judges, so instead of candidates running against each other, sitting judges appear on the ballot with a simple Yes/No retention question. Depending on where you live, your ballot may ask you to vote on:
- Missouri Supreme Court judges
- Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District judges
- 16th Judicial Circuit (Jackson County) Circuit Judges
- 16th Judicial Circuit (Jackson County) Associate Circuit Judges
The specific judges up for retention this year won't be finalized by the state until closer to Election Day (the Missouri Bar's judicial performance evaluations are due by October 1, 2026). Check your personal sample ballot for the exact names and divisions on your ballot.
Missouri Constitutional Amendments
Amendment 3 — Abortion & Gender-Transition Restrictions — We recommend: Vote NO
Would repeal the reproductive-rights amendment Missouri voters approved in 2024 and replace it with a near-total abortion ban (exceptions for medical emergencies, fetal anomalies, and rape/incest reported within 12 weeks, with parental consent required for minors), and would write the state's existing ban on gender-transition procedures for minors into the state constitution.
This amendment overturns a decision voters already made two years ago and puts the government back in charge of deeply personal medical decisions — between a woman and her doctor, and between a family and their child's doctor. It targets people, including transgender youth, who are already among the most vulnerable to political attack.
Vote NO on Amendment 3.
Amendment 6 — "Respect MO Voters" — Protecting Citizen Initiatives — We recommend: Vote YES
Would amend the state constitution so the legislature cannot repeal or rewrite a law or constitutional amendment that voters approved through the initiative petition process unless at least 80% of both the Missouri House and Senate vote to do so — and even then, the change would still have to go back to voters for final approval. It also bars lawmakers from making it harder to qualify future initiatives for the ballot, such as by raising signature requirements or shortening the time allowed to collect them.
Missouri's legislature has a recent track record of trying to undo or gut ballot measures voters already passed — including Amendment 3 on this same ballot, which would repeal the reproductive-rights amendment voters approved in 2024. This measure protects the citizen initiative process itself, making it far harder for a handful of lawmakers in Jefferson City to simply overrule what voters already decided.
Vote YES on Amendment 6.
Amendment 7 — "Show-Me Prosperity Fund" — We recommend: Vote NO
Would create a new permanent state investment fund, seeded and grown with state appropriations and invested in the stock market (tied to the S&P 500), with the stated long-term goal of eventually using its investment earnings to reduce and ultimately eliminate state taxes.
This is a multi-decade scheme to defund the state government by betting essential public revenue on the stock market instead of collecting it reliably through taxes. If the fund underperforms — and markets do go through down years — lawmakers are left with a hole in the budget and pressure to cut the schools, health care, and infrastructure that fund pays for, with no guaranteed backstop for working families in the meantime.
Vote NO on Amendment 7.
Amendment 8 — Elected County Sheriff as a Constitutional Office — We recommend: Vote NO
Would make the office of county sheriff a constitutional office rather than one created only by state statute, clarify sheriffs' responsibility for jails and courthouse security, and specify that only the Attorney General — and no other official — can bring a legal action to remove a sheriff from office. (Jackson County already elects its sheriff by ordinary statute; that wouldn't change either way.)
The problem is the removal clause. Today, a sheriff who breaks the law or abuses the office can be challenged through more than one avenue. This amendment closes all of them down to exactly one: a quo warranto suit filed by the sitting Attorney General, and no one else — not the local prosecutor, not a circuit judge, not the county itself. Handing sole, discretionary gatekeeping power over whether any of Missouri's 114 sheriffs — elected locally, often by very different electorates than the statewide Attorney General — can ever be held accountable to one single, distant statewide office is a bad trade, regardless of who holds it at any given time.
Vote NO on Amendment 8.
Missouri Proposition A — Congressional Map Referendum
Proposition A — We recommend: Vote NO
"Do the people of the state of Missouri approve the act of the General Assembly entitled ‘House Bill No. 1 (2025 Second Extraordinary Session),’ which repeals Missouri's existing congressional plan, and replaces it with new congressional boundaries that keep more counties intact?"
In 2025, Missouri Republicans redrew the state's congressional district lines at the urging of President Trump, targeting the Kansas City-area 5th District held by Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver and aiming to squeeze an additional Republican seat out of the state's congressional delegation. A coalition called People Not Politicians gathered more than 300,000 signatures to force a statewide referendum on the new map. The Secretary of State initially rejected the referendum petition, but on September 3, 2026 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled that rejection unlawful, ordered the question onto the November 3 ballot as Proposition A, and blocked the new map from being used this year — meaning the current map (in place since 2022) will be used for this November's elections regardless of the outcome. A YES vote approves the 2025 Republican-drawn map for future elections; a NO vote rejects it and keeps the current map in place.
The official ballot summary frames this as simply keeping more counties whole, but that's not why this map was drawn. It was drawn specifically to make it harder for Jackson County's own representative, Emanuel Cleaver, to win reelection, and to lock in a lopsided partisan advantage for the next decade regardless of how Missourians actually vote. Letting politicians draw districts to pick their voters — rather than voters picking their representatives — undermines fair representation for Jackson County and the whole state.
Vote NO on Proposition A.
Jackson County Ballot Measure
COMBAT Tax Renewal (expected) — We recommend: Vote YES
Jackson County is expected to ask voters to renew the quarter-cent COMBAT sales tax, which funds anti-drug and anti-violence programs and law-enforcement partnerships across the county. The exact ballot language hadn't been finalized as of late August 2026 — confirm on your sample ballot.
This is a renewal, not a new tax, and it funds treatment, prevention, and community violence-intervention programs alongside law enforcement rather than policing alone. Letting it lapse would cut off a funding stream county agencies and nonprofits have built years of ongoing programming around.
Vote YES on the COMBAT tax renewal.
City Ballot Measures
Blue Springs: A 2.5% local use tax (matching the city's existing sales tax rate) to fund a 10–15 year residential street-paving program. This is the city's third attempt at a use tax, after similar measures failed in 2018 and 2022.
No other Jackson County city (Kansas City, Independence, Lee's Summit, Raytown, Grandview, Grain Valley, Oak Grove, Sugar Creek, Buckner, and others) has a confirmed measure on the November 2026 ballot as of this writing — Kansas City's own bond and sales-tax questions were already decided in the August 2026 primary. Check your city's website or your sample ballot for anything added later.