Lane County, Kansas

2024 results by precinct

6 precincts · 845 votes cast

Trump · R+71

Harris +50

Trump +50

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38 presidential elections

Year	Won	Margin	Democratic	Republican	Total
2024	R	−70.8%	111	709	845
2020	R	−72.3%	115	762	895
2016	R	−70.3%	106	718	871
2012	R	−61.1%	172	739	928
2008	R	−60.5%	193	814	1,027
2004	R	−63.3%	181	823	1,014
2000	R	−52.4%	252	846	1,133
1996	R	−48.5%	271	865	1,224
1992	R	−31.5%	265	674	1,299
1988	R	−25.4%	450	768	1,250
1984	R	−55.6%	282	1,008	1,306
1980	R	−44.1%	321	924	1,368
1976	R	−0.4%	646	651	1,331
1972	R	−50.4%	294	943	1,288
1968	R	−30.7%	385	781	1,288
1964	D	+13.6%	773	586	1,370
1960	R	−31.9%	462	902	1,379
1956	R	−44.5%	380	992	1,376
1952	R	−56.6%	311	1,142	1,467
1948	R	−18.0%	525	764	1,328
1944	R	−32.8%	388	773	1,173
1940	R	−22.7%	557	888	1,461
1936	D	+11.0%	853	682	1,558
1932	D	+12.4%	866	672	1,567
1928	R	−44.1%	364	954	1,338
1924	R	−35.1%	281	693	1,173
1920	R	−34.9%	298	656	1,026
1916	D	+26.1%	659	363	1,132
1912	D	+12.7%	237	158	622
1908	R	−12.4%	271	357	693
1904	R	−43.6%	111	353	555
1900	R	−15.8%	172	239	423
1896	R	−11.4%	191	241	439
1892	R	−43.4%	0	222	511
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

1.0%

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: 50.3 in this county, 39.1 nationally

Male

Age

Female

0.4%

85+

2.7%

3.3%

75–84

3.8%

8.6%

65–74

6.8%

7.7%

55–64

9.2%

10.0%

45–54

5.7%

2.2%

35–44

3.0%

4.4%

25–34

4.4%

0.5%

18–24

2.4%

10.8%

5–17

8.3%

2.2%

3.4%

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

Median household income

2024 inflation-adjusted dollars

$54,526

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

Lane County$54,526

Kansas$74,275

United States$80,734

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

Poverty rate

All persons below federal poverty line

7.0%

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

Methodist

33.7%

Catholic & Orthodox

12.7%

Other Christian

10.7%

Baptist

6.6%

Mainline Protestant

2.0%

Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 34.3% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With roughly 2,100 residents spread across 717 square miles of High Plains rangeland, Lane County delivers Republican presidential margins that consistently rank among the widest in the state, reflecting a rural agricultural electorate with little demographic counterweight.

The Democratic margin in Lane County peaked at twenty-six points in 1916. By 1968 the county had flipped, voting Republican for the first time in many years. The 2024 margin was seventy-one points, the most Republican-leaning result in the county's modern history.

The economic context is the key. Lane County's median household income of $54,526 sits well below state and national norms, and 7% 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 Hodgeman County and Gray County.

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