Nine candidates are running in the nonpartisan primary election for mayor of Wichita, Kansas, on Aug. 1. The top two vote-getters will advance to a Nov. 7 general election. Incumbent Brandon Whipple is running for re-election.
Dr. Russell Arben Fox, a political science professor at Friends University in Wichita, says that turnout in the primary will be important with so many candidates running: “The primary election is going to be a question of who is able to get their friends out into vote, who is able to get the people that are most closely associated with their social networks, their professional networks, their party networks, their political networks, out to vote.”
Jared Cerullo, Bryan Frye, Celeste Racette, Whipple, and Lily Wu lead in media mentions.
