title: Mike Petersen (Kansas politician)
text: # Mike Petersen (Kansas politician)
  
  Soren M. Petersen (born October 5, 1960) is an American Republican politician who serves in the Kansas Senate, representing the 28th district since 2005.
  
  ## Committee assignments
  
  Petersen serves on these legislative committees:
  
  * Joint Committee on Information Technology (chair)
  * Transportation (chair)
  * Utilities (vice-chair)
  * Joint Committee on Kansas Security
  * Clean Power Plan Implementation Study Committee
  * Judiciary
  * Telecommunications Study Committee
  * Assessment and Taxation
  * Transportation and Public Safety Subcommittee, Ways and Means
  
  ## Elections
  
  ### 2012
  
  Petersen was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary, winning 2,632 votes. He defeated Democratic nominee Keith Humphrey by a margin of 9,853 to 7,957 in the general election — a 52.7- to 47.3-percent margin.
  
  ### 2016
  
  Petersen faced Jo Hillman in the 2016 Republican primary, winning with a margin of 74% to 25% of the vote. In the general election, he defeated Keith Humphrey once again, winning by a margin of 9,915 to 9,353 votes.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He is an industrial electrician from Wichita, and is married to Shelby Petersen.
  
  