RepublicanIn office since Nov 2020

Clarke Sanders

Kansas State Representative, District 69 since 2020. Ran in 4 elections between 1992 and 2024, winning 3. Ran for re-election in 2026; the count goes on.

Kansas State Representative, District 69Radio personality

Official website Wikipedia

In office: 6 yrs; Since 2020
Bills became law: 1; 14 sponsored, 2025–2026 session
Votes missed: 1.5%; Chamber median 1.2%
With party: 96%; On votes splitting the parties
Last margin: +16.4; Won 2024
Elections: 5; 1992–2026

Source: Wikidata, congress-legislators and Open States; 99chambers legislative recordsUpdated Oct 27, 2026, 1:51 PM ET

Committees

As of 2026-10.

Child Welfare and Foster Care
Federal and State Affairs
Taxation
Welfare Reform

Source: Open States committeesUpdated Oct 27, 2026, 9:43 AM ET

Legislation

2025–2026 session · 14 sponsored · 1 became law

BillIntroCmteHouseSenateLaw

HB 2029 Reconciling multiple amendments to certain statutes.
Roads and Highways · Became law Apr 2026

Source: Open States billsUpdated Nov 6, 2026, 4:22 PM ET

Voting record

2025–2026 session · placement by roll-call votes

Where Sanders sits in the Kansas House of Representatives

Sanders is closer to the center than 56% of the chamber's Republicans.

Closest: Gary White, Web Roth, Shawn Chauncey

Source: 99chambers roll-call scalingUpdated Nov 6, 2026, 4:50 PM ET

With Sanders’s party

Votes with the chamber's Republicans96%

Black tick: the average of Republicans in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Source: 99chambers legislative scores from roll calls and cosponsorships

Key votes

Votes chosen for their effect, not their side: Sanders’s vote, each party’s majority, and the result. An orange vote differs from most Republicans.

Date	Bill	Sanders	Rep. majority	Dem. majority	Result
Apr 11, 2026	HB 2763: Requiring school districts to provide elementary students with a certain amount of daily…	No	Yes	No	Passed 74–47
Apr 10, 2026	SB 430: Adding mitragynine to schedule I of the uniform controlled substances act and reconciling…	No	Yes	No	Passed 78–44
Apr 10, 2026	HB 2111: Senate Substitute for HB 2111 by Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources -…	Yes	Yes	No	Passed 71–49
Apr 10, 2026	HB 2515: Establishing the Kansas legal tender act and providing for an income tax subtraction…	Yes	Yes	No	Passed 76–44
Apr 10, 2026	HB 2043: Providing a protest petition to contest certain increases in property tax revenues and…	Yes	Yes	No	Passed 87–35

Source: 99chambers key votes from Congress.gov, Voteview and Open States roll calls

Career

Offices held, and every time Sanders was on a ballot. Filled marks are general elections won; hollow marks are primaries; an orange outline is a loss.

1992199620002004200820122016202020242028Kansas House of Representatives, District 69

Source: 99chambers results archive (MEDSL, Klarner, state election offices)

Elections

Margin against the seat’s presidential baseline: how the seat voted for president in the same or nearest year.

Year	Race	Result	Margin	Seat	+/−
2026	Kansas House of Representatives, District 69	Counting	R+27.8	R+34.1	−6.3
2024	Kansas House of Representatives, District 69	Won	R+16.4	R+34.1	−17.7
2022	Kansas House of Representatives, District 69	Won	R+30.0	R+33.0	−3.0
2020	Kansas House of Representatives, District 69	Won	R+18.0	—	—
1992	Kansas House of Representatives, District 69	Lost	D+5.3	—	—