photo by: Kim Callahan/Journal-World

The Douglas County elections office at 711 W. 23rd St. is pictured Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

The 2024 general election kicks off soon, with the deadline to register to vote on Oct. 15 and advance voting starting on Oct. 16. On the ballot in Douglas County are races for district attorney, County Commission and state legislative seats, and in Lawrence there are also ballot questions about the city’s form of government and the affordable housing and homelessness sales tax.

Learn more about the issues in these stories:

BALLOT QUESTIONS

A proposal to change to the city’s form of government is on the November ballot; here’s what it could mean for Lawrence residents

VOTER GUIDE: Lawrence residents face ballot question to double sales tax rate for affordable housing, homeless services

COUNTY COMMISSION

VOTER GUIDE: An incumbent Douglas County commissioner and an independent candidate will run for District 2 seat

Current Democratic commission chair and Republican challenger run for Douglas County Commission District 3

Three candidates will be running for the newly established Douglas County Commission District 4

Three candidates for Douglas County Commission will run against each other in the newly established District 5

DISTRICT ATTORNEY

Democrat Dakota Loomis and Republican Mike Warner vying for control of District Attorney’s Office in wake of incumbent’s ouster

LEGISLATURE

In race to represent Lawrence’s largest Senate district, the longtime Democratic incumbent faces a 1990s GOP leader

West Lawrence Senate district pits minister, real estate entrepreneur against former newspaper publisher, soldier

Two Topeka residents vying for new Senate seat that includes northwest Lawrence, Lecompton, east Topeka

A look at legislative races in Baldwin City, Eudora, rural Douglas County

Most Kansas House district races in Lawrence feature Democrats running unopposed