# Robyn Essex

Robyn Essex is a Republican member of the Kansas House for district 78.

- Party: Republican
- Seat: Kansas House, district 78
- Serving since: 2023-01-09
- Current term: KS 2025–26 session
- Open States ID: ocd-person/d034154f-ba03-4c97-ac96-c4023968f9b3

Source: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d034154f-ba03-4c97-ac96-c4023968f9b3 (America’s Political Pulse, Polarization Research Lab), data through 2026-10-27. Data under CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Westwood, Sean J., and Yphtach Lelkes. 2024. America's Political Pulse [data set].

## Headline

Essex reported $3,000 in the 2026 cycle, in the bottom tenth of State House Republicans (median $33.7K).

## Ideology (CSIP)

CSIP score +0.20 (standard error 0.03), from 73 donors and 191 roll calls. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it, on one scale for every official. 26% of State House Republicans score lower.

## Legislation (KS 2025–26 session)

Sponsored 19 bills: 9 reached committee, 3 passed one chamber, 1 passed both, 1 became law. Cosponsored 0. 15.8% of sponsored bills got out of committee (Kansas House 13.7%; rank 55 of 124).

Recent sponsored bills:

- HR 6043: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Melody McCray-Miller. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6043/
- HR 6044: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Harold Lane. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6044/
- HR 6042: Strengthening the sister-state ties between the State of Kansas and Taiwan. (introduced, 2026-04-09) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6042/
- HR 6041: Recognizing and commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Jayhawk Theatre. (introduced, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6041/
- HR 6040: Commemorating the life and service of Representative John Resman. (introduced, 2026-03-24) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6040/
- HR 6034: Commemorating the life and service of Representative Robert Tomlinson. (introduced, 2026-03-13) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HR6034/
- HCR 5034: Proposing to amend the constitution of the state of Kansas by revising article 11 by establishing the freedom from taxes fund, establishing the Kansas… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HCR5034/
- HB 2670: Prohibiting video streaming services from transmitting commercial advertisements with the audio louder than that of the main video streaming content in which… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2670/
- HB 2637: Requiring eligible boards of education to consider participation in the community eligibility provision, providing a financial hardship exception from such… (in committee, 2026-04-10) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2637/
- HB 2634: Requiring landlords to comply with a default maintenance code if the rental property is in a city or county that has not adopted a maintenance code. (in committee, 2026-02-19) https://openstates.org/ks/bills/2025-2026/HB2634/

## Campaign money (2026 cycle)

Itemized receipts $3,000 (State House Republicans median $33.7K). Aggregates only; no individual donors.

## Links

- Official site: https://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2023_24/members/rep_essex_robyn_1/
- Campaign site: https://robynforkansas.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robyn.y.essex
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robyn-essex-a1290361/

Full profile, with every chart and the methods: https://americaspoliticalpulse.com/p/d034154f-ba03-4c97-ac96-c4023968f9b3