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1876–2024
Sumner County, Kansas
Sumner County·Kansas

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

One of Kansas's most lopsided presidential counties in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Sumner County, Kansas · Leanne Watts · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+50
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
22,353
2024 ACS
Most similar
Trego County
KS · similarity 1.00
46 precincts · 10,581 votes cast
Trump · R+50
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−49.9%
2,5277,81010,581
2020R
−50.5%
2,5918,10510,928
2016R
−50.5%
2,0766,9849,722
2012R
−39.4%
2,6586,2609,141
2008R
−32.7%
3,3536,73710,337
2004R
−36.9%
3,2177,09210,488
2000R
−25.7%
3,5496,17610,232
1996R
−21.1%
3,6385,95210,977
1992R
−4.5%
3,5644,08711,588
1988R
−9.7%
4,4175,39410,042
1984R
−30.0%
3,7086,94210,793
1980R
−21.7%
3,7616,03810,496
1976D
+7.2%
5,3854,64510,340
1972R
−41.7%
2,6856,94110,195
1968R
−20.0%
3,5625,62210,320
1964D
+7.8%
5,5744,76010,450
1960R
−23.5%
4,4627,21911,736
1956R
−26.3%
4,0887,02411,158
1952R
−38.7%
3,5678,13411,797
1948R
−12.6%
4,5715,92210,685
1944R
−20.4%
4,1876,34310,594
1940R
−4.7%
5,9886,58512,698
1936D
+23.3%
7,9664,94612,939
1932D
+12.3%
6,3534,92611,619
1928R
−60.9%
2,1088,95111,240
1924R
−29.6%
2,5565,55210,108
1920R
−24.7%
3,4545,8309,638
1916D
+13.9%
5,5194,07910,361
1912D
+27.8%
2,5577816,398
1908R
−7.3%
2,7723,2356,306
1904R
−33.5%
1,4893,2645,298
1900R
−3.2%
2,9823,1846,291
1896D
+9.5%
3,0482,5155,619
1892R
−52.7%
04,0587,695
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
0.9%
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
Methodist
11.4%
Baptist
11.0%
Catholic & Orthodox
10.2%
Other Christian
7.1%
Mainline Protestant
4.5%
Pentecostal & Holiness
1.7%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 54.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Sumner County, anchored by the small city of Wellington, delivered a 50-point Republican margin in 2024 — a figure consistent with the deep-red tilt of south-central Kansas's wheat-belt counties.

The Republican margin in Sumner County reached its widest at sixty-one points in 1928. The margin in 2024 was fifty points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Sumner County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $63,951, a 90% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 22,353 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 Trego County and Nemaha County.