Polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for the primary election.

Nearly 10,000 people in both Riley and Pottawatomie counties combined requested mail ballots, with about 62 percent (6,163) of those ballots having been received in the two counties as of noon Monday.

The return rate for mail in ballots has been much greater in Pottawatomie County than it has been in Riley County. As of noon Monday, Pott. County had received 2,140 of the 2,855 mail ballots, leaving just over 700 still needing to come in. County Clerk Nancy McCarter says they also saw 289 people vote in advance at the Clerk’s office in Westmoreland.

“If they are posted marked election day I will add them into the totals up until Friday,” McCarter said in an email to KMAN Monday.

If you have a mail ballot, they must be postmarked no later than Tuesday to be counted. Otherwise they can be hand delivered to the county clerk’s office or to your polling place in either county.

Riley County mailed out 7,090 ballots to voters, but only 4,023 of those have been returned, leaving just over 3,000 ballots still to be received. In person advance numbers totaled 790 at the Riley County Office Building. Riley County Clerk Rich Vargo tells KMAN they intend to have all polling places open Tuesday.

“Masks are required at polling places in Manhattan. At all the rural polling places, we do encourage the use of masks and most of the rural polling places are small and social distancing is hard,” he said.

It is encouraged in those areas where masks aren’t mandated that residents abide by local health recommendations and stay 6 feet apart from others.

KMAN will have election results on air after the polls close and those will be shared also on our Facebook and Twitter pages as well as NewsRadioKMAN.com. Contested races are as follows:

Riley County Commission 

District 2
Republicans
Marvin Rodriguez (incumbent)
Phil Mattox
Greg McKinley
Democrats
**Fanny Fang is a candidate on the Democratic ballot. She is uncontested and will advance to the November general election.
District 3
Republicans
Ron Wells (incumbent)
John Matta
Democrats
**Kathryn Focke is a candidate on the Democratic ballot. She is uncontested and will advance to the November general election.

Pottawatomie County Commission

District 2
Republicans
Pat Weixelman (incumbent)
Nancy McCarter
Democrats
none
District 3
Republicans
Greg Riat (uncontested)
Democrats
none

Pottawatomie County Sheriff

Republicans
Shane Jager (current Sheriff)
Mike Baker (current Wamego Police Chief)
Democrats
none

Pottawatomie County Clerk

Republicans

Leslie Dugan

Dawn Henry

Wendy Hudson

Kansas Senate
District 22
Republicans
Craig Bowser (R-Manhattan)
Bryan Pruitt (R-Manhattan)
Democrats
Tom Hawk (D-Manhattan) incumbent
uncontested

Kansas House

District 51
Republicans
Ron Highland (R-Wamego) (incumbent)
Gary Schuetz (R-Paxico)
Democrats
none
District 66
Republicans
none
Democrats
Sydney Carlin (D-Manhattan) (incumbent) unopposed
District 67
Republicans
Mike Dodson (R-Manhattan) unopposed
Democrats
Cheryl Arthur (D-Manhattan) unopposed

U.S. Senate

Republicans

Lance Berland (R-Abilene)
Derek Ellis (R-Topeka)
Bob Hamilton (R-Bucyrus)
Kris Kobach (R-Lecompton)
David Lindstrom (R-Overland Park) **
Roger Marshall (R-Great Bend)
Brian Matlock (R-Kansas City)
Steve Roberts (R-Overland Park)
Gabriel Robles (R-Topeka)

Democrats

Barbara Bollier (D-Mission Hills)
Robert Tillman (D-Wichita)

 

U.S. House of Representatives (District 1)

Republicans

Bill Clifford (R-Garden City)
Tracey Mann (R-Salina)

Democrats

Kali Barnett (D-Manhattan)
Christy Cauble Davis (D-Cottonwood Falls)

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