How Kansas has voted since 1960

Kansas has 6 electoral votes in 2028. Since 1960 it has voted Democratic once and Republican 16 times. It has backed the national winner in 10 of 17 elections. Donald Trump carried it in 2024 by 16.1 points, 14.7 points more Republican than the nation. In 2024, 63.3% of its eligible voters cast a ballot, ranking 35th among the 50 states and DC (nationally, 64.3%). It has voted Republican in every election since 1968. Its closest result was in 1992, when George H.W. Bush won it by 5.1 points.

  1. 1960Nixon+21.4
  2. 1964Johnson+9.0
  3. 1968Nixon+20.1
  4. 1972Nixon+38.2
  5. 1976Ford+7.6
  6. 1980Reagan+24.6
  7. 1984Reagan+33.7
  8. 1988Bush+13.2
  9. 1992Bush+5.1
  10. 1996Dole+18.2
  11. 2000Bush+20.8
  12. 2004Bush+25.4
  13. 2008McCain+15.0
  14. 2012Romney+21.7
  15. 2016Trump+20.6
  16. 2020Trump+14.6
  17. 2024Trump+16.1

Each box is one election: the winner in Kansas and the margin in points. Darker boxes were won by 10 points or more, lighter by under 5.

Election night

8 p.m. ET

Polls close at 8 p.m. ET (7 p.m. Central); in four western counties (Mountain Time) they close at 9 p.m. ET.

Also closing at 8 p.m. ET: AL, CT, DE, DC, IL, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NH, NJ, ND, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX.

Times from the 2024 general election; states rarely change them, and they will be confirmed for 2028.

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In Congress

Senate

House: 3 Republicans, 1 Democrat

All 4 members
  1. 1 Tracey Mann (R)
  2. 2 Derek Schmidt (R)
  3. 3 Sharice Davids (D)
  4. 4 Ron Estes (R)

From Congress.gov, as of Oct. 19, 2026. Vacant seats are not listed.

Margin by election

Kansas margin by electionBars show the Democratic or Republican margin in Kansas in each election since 1960; the line shows the national popular-vote margin. The table below has every figure.R+40R+30R+20R+10EvenD+10D+20D+30D+401960: R+21.4 (nation D+0.2)'601964: D+9.0 (nation D+22.6)'641968: R+20.1 (nation R+0.7)'681972: R+38.2 (nation R+23.2)'721976: R+7.6 (nation D+2.1)'761980: R+24.6 (nation R+9.7)'801984: R+33.7 (nation R+18.2)'841988: R+13.2 (nation R+7.7)'881992: R+5.1 (nation D+5.6)'921996: R+18.2 (nation D+8.5)'962000: R+20.8 (nation D+0.5)'002004: R+25.4 (nation R+2.5)'042008: R+15.0 (nation D+7.3)'082012: R+21.7 (nation D+3.9)'122016: R+20.6 (nation D+2.1)'162020: R+14.6 (nation D+4.5)'202024: R+16.1 (nation R+1.5)'24

Kansas margin National popular vote

By county

Donald Trump won 100 of Kansas' 105 counties in 2024; Kamala Harris won 5.

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Largest counties, 2024

CountyVotesMarginShift from 2020
Johnson County343,780D+8.5→D 0.2
Sedgwick County214,152R+13.8→R 2.0
Shawnee County81,819D+0.5→R 2.5
Douglas County58,041D+38.0→R 1.5
Wyandotte County50,602D+23.9→R 7.6
Leavenworth County36,547R+22.8→R 1.6
Butler County32,236R+41.2→D 0.2
Reno County26,940R+34.5→R 0.3
Riley County24,313D+1.8→R 2.8
Saline County23,226R+31.6→R 1.0

Biggest shifts from 2020 to 2024: toward the Republican, Finney County (10.0), Seward County (9.9), Wyandotte County (7.6); toward the Democrat, Rooks County (2.4), Russell County (1.9), Phillips County (1.8) — in points of margin.

County returns from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab (official state data), 2000–2024. Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, of all votes cast.

Results by year

YearWinnerDemocratRepublicanOtherMarginNationTurnoutEV
2024 Donald TrumpTrumpHarris 41.0%544,853Trump 57.2%758,8021.8%R+16.1R+1.563.3%6
2020 Donald TrumpTrump lostBiden 41.5%570,323Trump 56.1%771,4062.4%R+14.6D+4.565.1%6
2016 Donald TrumpTrumpClinton 36.1%427,005Trump 56.7%671,0187.3%R+20.6D+2.159.5%6
2012 Mitt RomneyRomney lostObama 38.0%440,726Romney 59.7%692,6342.3%R+21.7D+3.958.2%6
2008 John McCainMcCain lostObama 41.7%514,765McCain 56.6%699,6551.7%R+15.0D+7.363.4%6
2004 George W. BushBushKerry 36.6%434,993Bush 62.0%736,4561.4%R+25.4R+2.563.0%6
2000 George W. BushBushGore 37.2%399,276Bush 58.0%622,3324.7%R+20.8D+0.557.7%6
1996 Bob DoleDole lostClinton 36.1%387,659Dole 54.3%583,245Perot 8.6%R+18.2D+8.557.8%6
1992 George H.W. BushBush lostClinton 33.7%390,434Bush 38.9%449,951Perot 27.0%R+5.1D+5.664.1%6
1988 George H.W. BushBushDukakis 42.6%422,636Bush 55.8%554,0491.7%R+13.2R+7.756.0%7
1984 Ronald ReaganReaganMondale 32.6%333,149Reagan 66.3%677,2961.1%R+33.7R+18.258.3%7
1980 Ronald ReaganReaganCarter 33.3%326,150Reagan 57.9%566,812Anderson 7.0%R+24.6R+9.757.5%7
1976 Gerald FordFord lostCarter 44.9%430,421Ford 52.5%502,7522.6%R+7.6D+2.1—7
1972 Richard NixonNixonMcGovern 29.5%Nixon 67.7%2.8%R+38.2R+23.2—7
1968 Richard NixonNixonHumphrey 34.7%Nixon 54.8%Wallace 10.2%R+20.1R+0.7—7
1964 Lyndon B. JohnsonJohnsonJohnson 54.1%Goldwater 45.1%0.9%D+9.0D+22.6—7
1960 Richard NixonNixon lostKennedy 39.1%Nixon 60.5%0.5%R+21.4D+0.2—8

Margin is the Democrat's share minus the Republican's, in percentage points; Nation is the same for the national popular vote. "Other" is everyone else combined, or the leading third-party candidate where one took 5% or more. Vote counts from 1976. Turnout is ballots cast as a share of eligible voters, from 1980 (UF Election Lab; the newest year is preliminary).

Electoral votes

Electoral votes change after each census, when House seats are reapportioned.

  • 819601950 census
  • 71964–19681960 census
  • 71972–19801970 census
  • 71984–19881980 census
  • 61992–20001990 census
  • 62004–20082000 census
  • 62012–20202010 census
  • 62024–20282020 census
  • 62032–2040projected

Projected: Kansas's share of House seats after the 2030 census if each state's population keeps changing at its pace since 2020, from the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey population estimates (July 1, 2024). If the count were taken today it would have 6. An estimate, not a forecast.

Before 1960

Kansas cast electoral votes in 24 presidential elections before 1960, the first in 1864. It backed the eventual president in 18 of them.

YearCarried byElectorsMarginBacked winner
1956Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican8+31.3✓
1952Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican8+38.6✓
1948Thomas E. Dewey Republican8+9.2–
1944Thomas E. Dewey Republican8+21.2–
1940Wendell Willkie Republican9+14.6–
1936Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic9+7.7✓
1932Franklin D. Roosevelt Democratic9+9.7✓
1928Herbert Hoover Republican10+45.4✓
1924Calvin Coolidge Republican10+37.9✓
1920Warren G. Harding Republican10+33.1✓
1916Woodrow Wilson Democratic10+6.2✓
1912Woodrow Wilson Democratic10+6.4✓
1908William Howard Taft Republican10+10.1✓
1904Theodore Roosevelt Republican10+42.5✓
1900William McKinley Republican10+6.7✓
1896William Jennings Bryan Democratic-Populist10+4.1–
1892James B. Weaver Populist10+2.1–
1888Benjamin Harrison Republican9+28.0✓
1884James G. Blaine Republican9+26.3–
1880James A. Garfield Republican5+34.0✓
1876Rutherford B. Hayes Republican5+34.8✓
1872Ulysses S. Grant Republican5+33.9✓
1868Ulysses S. Grant Republican3+37.7✓
1864Abraham Lincoln Republican3+63.3✓

Margin: the winner's lead over the runner-up in the state's popular vote, in points. A dash means the legislature chose the electors (common before the 1830s) or no popular vote is on record. Each year links to that election's map and full results.