Follow the money: See who donated to Wichita City Council, school board candidates
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- Search the database below to see donations to candidates for Wichita City Council and Wichita School Board.
- Candidates who spend or raise more than $1,000 must report to the local election office.
- Wichita City Council District 1 and School Board Districts 1, 5 have primaries on Tuesday.
Which individuals, businesses, political action committees, unions and other organizations donated to candidates vying for seats on the Wichita City Council and USD 259 School Board?
You can search contributions made to candidates using The Wichita Eagle’s interactive campaign finance database below. It includes all fundraising reported by local candidates required to file expenditure reports ahead of Tuesday’s primary. Candidates who did not expect to raise or spend more than $1,000 in the primary or general elections were not required to file the reports and therefore are not included in the database.
Donor information was compiled from expenditure reports filed with the Sedgwick County Election Office.
Some of the candidates included in the database have primaries and some do not.
Three Wichita City Council seats are up for election this year, but only one will hold a primary. Five candidates are vying to replace District 1 council member Brandon Johnson, who can’t run again due to term limits. They are Aujanae Bennett, Darryl Carrington, LaWanda DeShazer, Chris Pumpelly and Joseph Shepard.
District 1 includes the core of Wichita, with parts of downtown, and generally stretches north to city limits and east to Rock Road.
Four Wichita School Board seats are up for election this year, but only candidates in Districts 1 and 5 will face off in Tuesday’s primary.
Four candidates are competing in District 1: Incumbent Diane Albert, Sarah McMillen, Mackenzi Truelove and Kyle Wiseman. District 1 extends from Central on the south to 69th Street on the north between I-135 and Webb.
There are five candidates in District 5 seat: Incumbent Kathy Bond, Michelle Cunningham, Amy Jensen, Phillip Samuels and Caleb Smith. District 5 extends north to 17th Street, south to 31st and from Meridian to 119th Street.
Editor’s note: Some candidates returned money to donors or altered contributor information after the primary election due to differing campaign donations limits in city and state law. Those changes are reflected in the database as of Oct. 14, 2025.
This story was originally published August 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM.
