Election Results
Donald Trump carried Kansas with about 56.2% of the vote in the 2024 presidential election.
Democratic presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
Republican presidential vote share
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Kansas has voted for the Republican presidential nominee in every election since 1968 except 1964's historic exception aside.
Governors
Democrat Laura Kelly has been governor since 2019, governing alongside Republican legislative supermajorities.
| Governor | Party | In office |
|---|---|---|
| Laura Kelly | Democratic | 2019–present |
| Jeff Colyer | Republican | 2018–2019 |
| Mark Parkinson | Democrat | 2009–2011 |
| Kathleen Sebelius | Democrat | 2003–2009 |
| Bill Graves | Republican | 1995–2003 |
| Joan Finney | Democrat | 1991–1995 |
| John Michael Hayden | Republican | 1987–1991 |
| John Carlin | Democrat | 1979–1987 |
| Robert F. Bennett | Republican | 1975–1979 |
| Robert Blackwell Docking | Democrat | 1967–1975 |
| William Henry Avery | Republican | 1965–1967 |
| John Anderson | Republican | 1961–1965 |
| George Docking | Democrat | 1957–1961 |
| John Berridge McCuish | Republican | 1957–1957 |
| Frederick Lee Hall | Republican | 1955–1957 |
| Edward Ferdinand Arn | Republican | 1951–1955 |
| Frank Lester Hagaman | Republican | 1950–1951 |
| Frank Carlson | Republican | 1947–1950 |
| Andrew Frank Schoeppel | Republican | 1943–1947 |
| Payne Harry Ratner | Republican | 1939–1943 |
| Walter Augustus Huxman | Democrat | 1937–1939 |
| Alfred Mossman Landon | Republican | 1933–1937 |
| Harry Hines Woodring | Democrat | 1931–1933 |
| Clyde Martin Reed | Republican | 1929–1931 |
| Ben Sanford Paulen | Republican | 1925–1929 |
| Jonathan McMillan Davis | Democrat | 1923–1925 |
| Henry Justin Allen | Republican | 1919–1923 |
| Arthur Capper | Republican | 1915–1919 |
| George Hartshorn Hodges | Democrat | 1913–1915 |
| Walter Roscoe Stubbs | Republican | 1909–1913 |
| Edward Wallis Hoch | Republican | 1905–1909 |
| Willis Joshua Bailey | Republican | 1903–1905 |
| William Eugene Stanley | Republican | 1899–1903 |
| John Whitnah Leedy | Populist | 1897–1899 |
| Edmund Needham Morrill | Republican | 1895–1897 |
| Lorenzo Dow Lewelling | Democrat | 1893–1895 |
| Lyman Underwood Humphrey | Republican | 1889–1893 |
| John Alexander Martin | Republican | 1885–1889 |
| George Washington Glick | Democrat | 1883–1885 |
| John Pierce St. John | Republican | 1879–1883 |
| George Tobey Anthony | Republican | 1877–1879 |
| Thomas Andrew Osborn | Republican | 1873–1877 |
| James Madison Harvey | Republican | 1869–1873 |
| Nehemiah Green | Republican | 1868–1869 |
| Samuel Johnson Crawford | Republican | 1865–1868 |
| Thomas Carney | Republican | 1863–1865 |
| Charles Lawrence Robinson | Republican | 1861–1863 |
Source: National Governors Association, current and former governors.
- •Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment on abortion in 2022 by 59% to 41%.
Senators
Kansas is represented in the U.S. Senate by Jerry Moran and Roger Marshall, both Republicans.
Democratic vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1978–2022MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse). Regular-term races; special elections only when no regular race was held. Independents (e.g. caucusing with Democrats) are not counted as Democratic; years without a Democratic nominee are omitted.
Republican vote share, U.S. Senate elections
1978–2022MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Kansas has not elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932.
Representatives
Kansas has 4 seats in the U.S. House, currently split 3 Republican to 1 Democrat.
U.S. House seats apportioned to Kansas
1910–2020U.S. Census Bureau, decennial apportionment counts.
- •Kansas' 3rd District, covering the Kansas City suburbs, is the state's only Democratic-held House seat.
Voting Trends
Kansas has voted Republican in nearly every presidential election since the 1930s, aside from 1964.
Total votes cast for president
1976–2024MIT Election Data and Science Lab, compiled from certified state results (Harvard Dataverse).
- •Despite its Republican presidential lean, Kansas voters rejected an anti-abortion ballot measure in 2022.
Party Distribution
Registered Republicans make up about 44% of Kansas voters, far outnumbering registered Democrats.
- •Unaffiliated voters are the fastest-growing segment of Kansas' registered electorate.