Comanche County, Kansas

2024 results by precinct

5 precincts · 843 votes cast

Trump · R+68

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−68.1%	127	701	843
2020	R	−69.4%	126	762	916
2016	R	−70.7%	102	715	867
2012	R	−67.2%	143	767	928
2008	R	−58.6%	194	765	974
2004	R	−58.1%	200	770	981
2000	R	−54.6%	211	760	1,006
1996	R	−34.9%	298	691	1,127
1992	R	−24.2%	325	636	1,285
1988	R	−32.3%	375	738	1,123
1984	R	−54.8%	285	993	1,293
1980	R	−36.1%	393	877	1,340
1976	R	−6.5%	630	719	1,364
1972	R	−56.6%	281	1,052	1,363
1968	R	−31.5%	451	906	1,446
1964	D	+8.1%	818	694	1,524
1960	R	−44.0%	460	1,187	1,652
1956	R	−45.4%	461	1,238	1,710
1952	R	−58.5%	374	1,443	1,827
1948	R	−24.5%	650	1,077	1,740
1944	R	−23.8%	642	1,048	1,705
1940	R	−19.9%	880	1,322	2,222
1936	D	+21.0%	1,428	932	2,363
1932	D	+10.7%	1,175	945	2,152
1928	R	−60.2%	385	1,554	1,943
1924	R	−35.4%	432	1,049	1,741
1920	R	−28.6%	612	1,121	1,778
1916	D	+12.2%	963	732	1,899
1912	D	+20.2%	377	148	1,134
1908	R	−22.4%	245	392	657
1904	R	−33.3%	129	272	429
1900	R	−12.1%	194	249	454
1896	D	+9.5%	172	142	316
1892	R	−54.5%	0	310	569
1888	—	No data	—	—	—
1884	—	No data	—	—	—
1880	—	No data	—	—	—
1876	—	No data	—	—	—

Demographics

Race, ethnicity, and ancestry

Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.

American

100.0%

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.

Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.

American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.

Age distribution by sex

Median age: 49.6 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.9%

85+

4.3%

3.2%

75–84

6.8%

7.3%

65–74

6.7%

7.2%

55–64

8.5%

6.4%

45–54

3.8%

5.8%

35–44

6.6%

3.2%

25–34

3.3%

3.1%

18–24

3.5%

6.7%

5–17

9.5%

2.6%

0.6%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$54,545

Comanche County ranks in the bottom 25% of US counties.

Comanche County$54,545

Kansas$74,275

United States$80,734

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

9.2%

Children face moderate poverty.

Children under 1818.0%

Working age (18–64)100.0%

Seniors (65+)18.0%

Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release.

Language at home

Population aged 5 and older

0.0%

speak English only

Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.

Religious adherents

Adherents per capita by tradition

Other Christian

27.4%

Methodist

25.0%

Baptist

7.8%

Pentecostal & Holiness

5.2%

Catholic & Orthodox

2.1%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 32.5% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Comanche County sits in the shortgrass prairie of south-central Kansas with fewer than 2,000 residents, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+68.3 reflects the lopsided partisanship typical of the state's most sparsely settled range counties.

The Democratic margin in Comanche County peaked at twenty-one points in 1936. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was sixty-eight points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Comanche County's median household income of $54,545 sits well below state and national norms, and 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The shift here is part of a broader realignment of working-class places across the country. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Carson County and Cimarron County.

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Comanche County was solidly one party for decades. In the last twenty years, it flipped.