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1876–2024
Graham County, Kansas
Graham County·Kansas

Graham County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of Kansas's most reliably Republican counties by raw margin

18762024·38 elections
Graham County, Kansas · Ammodramus · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+66
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
2,389
2024 ACS
Most similar
Osborne County
KS · similarity 1.00
15 precincts · 1,194 votes cast
Trump · R+66
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−66.2%
1929831,194
2020R
−63.7%
2281,0801,337
2016R
−65.2%
1881,0251,284
2012R
−59.7%
2561,0561,340
2008R
−51.7%
3251,0601,423
2004R
−51.9%
3341,0821,440
2000R
−48.3%
3461,0581,474
1996R
−36.8%
4321,0311,626
1992R
−10.4%
5547521,912
1988R
−23.4%
7021,1391,868
1984R
−49.0%
4801,4231,923
1980R
−47.8%
4731,4502,045
1976R
−8.4%
9361,1122,088
1972R
−48.5%
4881,4401,964
1968R
−33.0%
5971,3082,154
1964R
−0.0%
1,1931,1942,408
1960R
−26.2%
9181,5722,497
1956R
−39.4%
7251,6762,412
1952R
−45.8%
6861,8592,560
1948R
−20.1%
9131,3802,328
1944R
−33.7%
8141,6512,482
1940R
−22.6%
1,1351,8042,959
1936D
+8.5%
1,7341,4623,202
1932D
+23.0%
2,0821,2843,464
1928R
−25.1%
1,0871,8322,970
1924R
−33.0%
6291,6313,033
1920R
−34.6%
7621,6582,588
1916D
+20.2%
1,8011,1503,228
1912D
+19.2%
6363271,613
1908R
−10.8%
7239111,744
1904R
−47.6%
2449211,423
1900D
+10.4%
6945611,274
1896D
+30.5%
648343999
1892R
−55.6%
0546982
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%
African American
3.7%
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.
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
Catholic & Orthodox
19.0%
Methodist
14.7%
Other Christian
10.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
8.7%
Mainline Protestant
4.0%
Baptist
1.7%
Non-Christian
0.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 41.2% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Graham County's 2024 presidential margin of R+65.7 reflects a pattern common to sparsely populated western Kansas counties, where ranching and wheat-farming communities have voted Republican by double-digit margins for decades.

The Republican margin in Graham County reached its widest at sixty-six points in 2024. The margin in 2024 was sixty-six points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Graham County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $50,650, a 91% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 2,389 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Osborne County and Lincoln County.