Chris Dinkins

Chris Dinkins is the Republican candidate for the Missouri House of Representatives, District 144, in the November 3, 2026 general election, seeking to return to a seat she held from 2018 to 2025.[2][1] She advanced from the Republican primary on August 4, 2026, defeating incumbent Tony Harbison.[2]

Chris Dinkins first won the District 144 seat in a special general election on February 6, 2018, defeating Jim Scaggs, and was elected to a full term that November.[2] She assumed office in 2018 and left on January 8, 2025, and she won re-election in 2020 and 2022.[2] During the 2019-2020 term she sat on the Economic Development and Professional Registration and Licensing committees, and in 2021-2022 she was vice chair of both Professional Registration and Licensing and Corrections and Public Institutions.[2] In 2023-2024 her assignments were Corrections and Public Institutions, Financial Institutions, Insurance, and Professional Registration and Licensing.[2]

Dinkins did not seek re-election to the House in 2024; she instead competed in the Republican primary for Missouri State Senate District 27 on August 6, 2024, and lost.[2]

Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.