Career
He was the Assistant Majority Leader in 2001 and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 2000. He was a Kansas Representative from 1992 to 1997. He has also been a precinct committeeman since 1980.
He is an auto dealer from Wichita.
Donovan serves on these legislative committees:
Assessment and Taxation (chair)
Judiciary
Transportation
Legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Donovan includes:
An amendment to have supreme court justices" appointments subject to consent of the senate. A resolution to create a budget stabilization fund
A bill regarding campaign finance reform
Some of the top contributors to Les Donovan"s 2008 campaign, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics:
Kansas Republican Senatorial Committee, Koch Industries, Kansas Contractors Association, Kansas Association of Realtors, Kansas Medical Society, Kansas Bankers Association
Financial, insurance and real estate companies were his largest donor group.
2012
Donovan was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary. He defeated Democratic nominee Diana Cubbage in the general election, by a margin of 20,773 to 10,922 — 65.5 percent to 34.5 percent.
Cubbage, a Wichita educator, had been unopposed in the 2012 Democratic Primary.
She had been endorsed by the Kansas Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas and the American Federation of Labor-Congress-Chief Information Officer.
