Article I, Section 13 of the Kansas Constitution states that state executive salaries are legally fixed and may not be reduced during the current term, unless such a reduction applies to all salaried state officers. Kansas Constitution, Article I, Section In Kansas from there were Democratic governors in office for 11 years while there were Republican governors in office for 11 years, including the last three.
Kansas was under Republican trifectas for the last three years of the study period. Across the country, there were years of Democratic governors Over the course of the year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan. At the outset of the study period , 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In , only 13 states had divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied.
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of Kansas , the Kansas State Senate and the Kansas House of Representatives from to The chart below depicts the partisanship of the Kansas state government and the state's SQLI ranking for the years studied. For the SQLI, the states were ranked from , with 1 being the best and 50 the worst.
Kansas has never had a Democratic trifecta, while it has had a Republican trifecta in two separate periods of the study between and , and again beginning in The state cracked the top in the SQLI ranking once in Kansas reached its lowest point in 29th under divided government.
There have been 48 Governors of Kansas since Of the 48 officeholders, 35 were Republican, 12 were Democrat, and one was Populist.
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