1996 United States Senate special election in Kansas

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The 1996 United States Senate special election in Kansas was held on November 5, 1996, concurrently with the presidential election and the regularly scheduled election for the state's Class 2 seat. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee for president, had resigned on June 11, 1996, in order to focus on his presidential campaign. Lieutenant Governor Sheila Frahm was appointed to the seat upon Dole's resignation, but she was defeated in the primary by Representative Sam Brownback, who went on to win the general election over Democrat Jill Docking. Brownback served in the U.S. Senate from 1996 to 2011 and later as governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018; in his successful 2014 gubernatorial re-election campaign, he defeated the Democratic ticket, which included Docking as the nominee for lieutenant governor. As of 2025, this is the last time a Democratic candidate won Cowley County as well as Ellis County in a US Senate election.

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