Kansas State Senator John Doll had changed his registration from Republican to independent in March 2018. He recently changed back to Republican. He was last elected in 2016, to a four-year term, and says he hasn’t decided whether he will run for re-election in 2020.

In 2018, he was an independent candidate for Lieutenant Governor, on the ticket headed by independent gubernatorial candidate Greg Orman. During the years he was an independent state senator, he was given no committee assignments.