 The party currently controls the state's governorship, one seat in the state's U.S. House delegation, and is currently in the minority in both houses of the state legislature.Since its founding as a territory, Kansas politics have been largely dominated by the Kansas Republican Party and in 1857, the Kansas Democratic Party was formed in an attempt to curb this trend by writing a constitution which would make Kansas a pro-slavery state.This constitution, which was written in Lecompton, Kansas, was boycotted by many of the free-staters and seen as illegitimate.