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Kansas

State facts

people (ACS)
2,947,197
House seats
4
president 2024
R +16.1
Democrat

Governor Laura Kelly

Senators: 2 Republicans. House members: 1 Democrat, 3 Republicans.

Districts

4 House districts (2024 lines), 40 State Senate districts and 125 State House districts. Each district has its own page: who holds it, who lives there and how it has voted.

Choose a district on the map or in the table. House districts follow the lines their members were elected on; state legislative districts are the ones drawn for 2024.

Kansas: U.S. House, 2024 lines

4 districts

U.S. House, 2024 lines districts of Kansas
Kansas’s 1stTracey MannR731,5852022
Kansas’s 2ndDerek SchmidtR732,6572022
Kansas’s 3rdSharice DavidsD744,7602022
Kansas’s 4thRon EstesR738,1952022

Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files (2025; 2026 lines from TIGER/Line 2026).

Notes

Districts are filled by the party of the officials on this site who hold them; a hatched district has no one here today or is shared by members of more than one party. “Lines since” is the first general election held on the district’s lines: results before it describe a different place.

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Who represents it

2 senators, 4 House members and a governor on this site, and 165 state legislators.

Each name links to the official’s profile: what they say, how they vote, their ideology and money.

Governor and senators

The House delegation

4 members, by district

The state legislature

Officials on this site by chamber and party

State legislators on this site by chamber and party
ChamberDemocratsRepublicansOthers
State Senate9310
State House37880

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Elections

2024 presidential vote: R +16.1. 41.0% Democratic, 57.2% Republican.

Results from Candidates in American General Elections (CAGE): certified from 1990 to 2024, and 2026 as it is counted (unofficial, from NYT and NBC reporting, until certified). Shares are of all votes cast.

U.S. Senate

2026

2026 general election: candidates by votes
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Adam HamiltoncalledD555,97751.1%
Roger MarshallincumbentR499,57445.9%
David GrahamLbt32,7213.0%

Unofficial: about 95% of the expected vote counted; called by a network. Source: CAGE.

Earlier

  • 2022: Jerry Moran (R) won by 23.0 points
  • 2020: Roger Marshall (R) won by 11.4 points
  • 2016: Jerry Moran (R) won by 30.0 points
  • 2014: Pat Roberts (R) won by 10.6 points
  • 2010: Jerry Moran (R) won by 43.7 points

Governor

2026

2026 general election: candidates by votes
CandidatePartyVotesShare
Cindy HolscherD545,25250.4%
Ty MastersonR537,18349.6%

Unofficial: about 94% of the expected vote counted; not yet called. Source: CAGE.

Earlier

  • 2022: Laura Kelly (D) won by 2.2 points
  • 2018: Laura Kelly (D) won by 5.0 points
  • 2014: Sam Brownback (R) won by 3.7 points
  • 2010: Sam Brownback (R) won by 31.1 points
  • 2006: Kathleen Sebelius (D) won by 17.5 points

President

Statewide vote

Presidential vote in Kansas by year
YearDemocraticRepublicanMargin
202441.0%57.2%R +16.1
202041.6%56.2%R +14.7
201636.3%57.0%R +20.7
201238.0%59.8%R +21.7
200841.7%56.6%R +15.0
200436.6%62.0%R +25.4
200038.6%60.1%R +21.6
199636.3%54.6%R +18.3
199233.7%38.9%R +5.1

U.S. House

Seats won and the statewide House vote

House seats and vote in Kansas by year
YearD seatsR seatsD voteR vote
2026counting1347.8%49.8%
20241340.3%57.4%
20221342.5%56.9%
20201341.0%57.1%
20181344.2%53.6%
20160427.1%59.1%
20140436.1%62.7%
20120418.5%70.1%
20100432.9%63.2%
20081338.9%57.1%
20062243.7%54.3%
20041333.5%62.6%
20021331.3%64.6%
20001331.7%63.3%
19981337.4%61.9%
19960440.5%56.4%
19940436.5%63.5%
19922243.4%52.6%
19902350.4%49.6%

In 2026 the seats are the races called so far.

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Who lives there

2,947,197 people, by the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.

Each figure beside the nation’s; ± is the 90 percent margin of error.

Kansas at a glance

ACS 2020–2024 five-year estimates

People

2,947,197

A Census Bureau estimate

Median age

37.4

±0.1 · United States 38.9

Median household income

$74,275

±$475 · United States $80,734

Race and ethnicity

Share of everyone; Hispanic or Latino people may be of any race, the other groups are not Hispanic

Show the data
Race and ethnicity: kansas beside United States
PartKansasUnited States
White72.7%57.4%
Black5.2%11.9%
Hispanic or Latino13.6%19.3%
Asian2.9%5.9%
Another race or more than one5.7%5.5%

Age, schooling, income and place

Kansas over United States; ± is the 90 percent margin of error

0%40%
Kansas
United States
±
Aged 65 and over
17.0%
17.2%
±0.1
Bachelor’s degree or moreadults 25 and over
35.6%
35.7%
±0.3
Below the poverty line
11.3%
12.4%
±0.2
Born outside the U.S.
7.4%
14.1%
±0.1
Veteranscivilian adults
6.8%
6.2%
±0.1
Living in rural areas2020 Census
27.7%
20.0%
Show the data
Shares of people: kansas beside United States
RowKansasUnited States
Aged 65 and over17.0%17.2%
Bachelor’s degree or more (adults 25+)35.6%35.7%
Below the poverty line11.3%12.4%
Born outside the U.S.7.4%14.1%
Veterans (adults)6.8%6.2%
Living in rural areas (2020 Census)27.7%20.0%

Source: ACS 2020–2024 5-year estimates (Census Bureau); rural share from the 2020 Census.

About these figures

The figures from the American Community Survey are estimates from a sample, not a count. The ± beside each is its 90 percent margin of error: nine times in ten the true value lies within that range. In small districts the margins are wide, so a gap of a few points from United States may be noise. Shares are of everyone in the district, except education (adults 25 and over), poverty (people whose poverty status is known) and veterans (civilian adults).

These are the Census Bureau’s own estimates for the district; margins on shares are approximated from the counts’ margins.

The rural share counts the people living outside the urban areas the Census Bureau drew from the 2020 Census; it is a count, with no margin of error.

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Opinion

What Kansas’s adults think, estimated from the lab’s national survey.

Estimates for each state come from multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP): a model of every respondent’s answers by age, race, education, sex and their state’s 2024 vote, weighted to the state’s population. Rank 1 is the highest of the 51 states. See Public Opinion for the questions and the national trends.

Partisan animosity: Kansas’s estimates
Partisan animosityKSRankMedian state
Feelings gap between the parties50.0 48.4–51.64351.8
Very liberal or very conservative26% 24%–29%1926%
MAGA Republicans44% 40%–48%4147%
Political violence: Kansas’s estimates
Political violenceKSRankMedian state
Protesting without a permit31% 29%–33%1429%
Vandalism6.6% 5.7%–7.5%196.2%
Assault2.5% 2.0%–3.2%212.5%
Arson1.9% 1.4%–2.4%241.8%
Assault with a deadly weapon1.5% 1.1%–2.2%201.4%
Murder1.4% 1.0%–2.0%161.2%
Support for political violence (index)7.4% 6.9%–8.1%187.1%
Democratic norms: Kansas’s estimates
Democratic normsKSRankMedian state
Censoring hostile media14% 13%–16%4717%
Governing by executive order27% 25%–29%4029%
Ignoring court rulings10% 8.9%–12%3912%
Party over election rules13% 11%–15%3514%
Cutting polling stations6.7% 5.5%–8.0%327.0%
Accepting norm breaches (index)15% 13%–16%4016%
Issues: Kansas’s estimates
IssuesKSRankMedian state
The economy over the next six months32% 26%–38%3735%
The economy over the past six months24% 21%–29%4225%
Free speech is secure18% 15%–23%3620%
Amnesty for undocumented immigrants29% 27%–32%2730%
Deport immigrants here illegally52% 49%–56%2251%
Immigration is good for America65% 59%–70%2565%
More manufacturing jobs48% 44%–52%2548%
New tariffs37% 32%–43%1233%
New tariffs, if prices rise30% 26%–34%2029%
Notes

An estimate is uncertain, especially in small states: the 95% interval shows the range. Ranks between states whose intervals overlap mean little. Estimates as of Nov 3, 2026.

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What its officials say

1.9% of Kansas’s officials’ statements make personal attacks, against 4.7% nationwide.

An AI model reads each statement (posts on X, press releases, newsletters, floor speeches) and marks the kinds of statement it contains; a rate is the share of statements with that label, in the officials’ current terms. The Kansas dashboard has the trends, topics and leaders.

Rates of each kind of statement in Kansas and the nation
Kind of statementAll officialsMembers of CongressLegislators and governorNation
Personal attacks1.9%1.1%2.5%4.7%
Policy criticism18%20%16%16%
Policy discussion63%80%48%50%
Bipartisanship11%21%2.6%5.5%
Credit claiming32%48%18%19%
Extreme labels2.4%3.0%1.8%2.3%
Statements15,7747,2248,5501,724,578

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Ideology and lawmaking

5,941 bills in the Kansas legislature since 2019, 725 of them law (12.2%).

CSIP is the lab’s ideology score from roll calls, donations and text, on one scale for every official (0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition). The legislature’s party gap is measured within each chamber from its own roll calls, in standard deviations of its members’ positions. See Bills for every legislature.

CSIP medians

By party and level

Median CSIP score by party and level
OfficialsMediann
D in Congress-0.721
D governor-0.561
D in the legislature-0.5046
R in Congress1.085
R in the legislature0.19119

Party gap in the legislature

Latest term, from roll calls

Party gap by chamber and term
Chamber, termGap (SD)Members
State Senate, 2025-20262.0741
State House, 2025-20261.98130
State Senate, 2023-20241.9840
State House, 2023-20242.08112

Bills

State legislature, 2019 on

5,941

bills introduced

725 became law (12.2%)

The most bills are on Taxation (14% of those with an area).

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Money

46% of itemized gifts to its members of Congress came from inside Kansas; 78% of itemized gifts to its state officials came from inside Kansas (latest cycle).

Itemized donations are individual gifts over $200 a cycle, the only ones reported with an address; totals and shares count those only. Aggregates only: no donor is named.

Members of Congress

2026 cycle · 6 officials · $6.5M itemized

Where itemized donations came from
Donors inShare
Kansas46%
Florida4.9%
Virginia4.4%
Texas4.2%
New York4.2%

State officials

2026 cycle · 132 officials · $3.3M itemized

Where itemized donations came from
Donors inShare
Kansas78%
Missouri3.9%
District of Columbia3.3%
New York2.2%
Illinois1.6%

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Threats and violence

2 federal prosecutions for threatening officials in Kansas, 28 threats or harassment of local officials since 2022, and 2 political violence events in the lab’s record.

Separate records, never added together: prosecutions the Justice Department announced (not every threat), the Bridging Divides Initiative’s record of threats and harassment against local officials, the lab’s record of political violence, the FBI’s hate crime statistics and the Crowd Counting Consortium’s protests. The Political Violence page has each record in full.

3.4

hate crimes per 100,000 (2025)

Agencies covering 98% of residents reported

380

protests in the last 12 months

2025-06 to 2026-05; 12.8 per 100,000

2

threat prosecutions announced

Justice Department press releases, 2010 on

Hate crimes reported to the FBI

Incidents per year

501001991: 6 incidents1992: 3 incidents1993: 0 incidents1994: 0 incidents1995: 0 incidents1996: 28 incidents1997: 55 incidents1998: 54 incidents1999: 41 incidents2000: 75 incidents2001: 82 incidents2002: 56 incidents2003: 49 incidents2004: 49 incidents2005: 73 incidents2006: 111 incidents2007: 111 incidents2008: 115 incidents2009: 122 incidents2010: 58 incidents2011: 69 incidents2012: 84 incidents2013: 68 incidents2014: 75 incidents2015: 62 incidents2016: 52 incidents2017: 77 incidents2018: 74 incidents2019: 75 incidents2020: 117 incidents2021: 127 incidents2022: 126 incidents2023: 127 incidents2024: 116 incidents2025: 99 incidents0127 in 20219919912000201020202025
Notes

Reporting is voluntary: a year’s count rises and falls with the number of police agencies that took part, not only with crime. Few agencies reported in the early 1990s, and in 2021 the FBI took reports only through its incident-based system (NIBRS), which many agencies had not yet joined. The Political Violence page has each year’s coverage.

Where people protested

Counties with the most protest events, last 12 months

Protest events by county
Sedgwick County133
Johnson County102
Shawnee County26
Douglas County19
Riley County9

Crowd Counting Consortium (CC0).

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Files and sources

Every figure on this page is in the bulk files and the data API.

The state facts file has one row per state and every series by year or month, with the state boundaries; the API serves this state at /v1/states/KS. Sources: the Census Bureau (people, boundaries), Candidates in American General Elections and MIT Election Data and Science Lab (elections), the lab’s survey, the FBI, the Crowd Counting Consortium, the Justice Department, the Bridging Divides Initiative and the Global Terrorism Database. Credits and terms are on Open data.

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