- Lead
- 1,214
- Total
- 7,304
- vs nation
- D+18.1
Kansas 37th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,797
- Total
- 7,820
- vs nation
- D+18.5
- Lead
- 1,489
- Total
- 7,203
- vs nation
- D+18.6
- Lead
- 2,092
- Total
- 7,321
- vs nation
- D+24.7
- Lead
- 2,670
- Total
- 8,251
- vs nation
- D+25.1
- Lead
- 1,767
- Total
- 7,776
- vs nation
- D+25.2
- Lead
- 2,096
- Total
- 6,955
- vs nation
- D+29.6
- Lead
- 1,938
- Total
- 7,201
- vs nation
- D+18.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+16.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,2012024 5-year
- Population density
- 876 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 26.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,9932024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 17.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 31.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+32.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 31, KS · twin score 93.6
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 37th State House District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1876) · 38 presidential cycles · 38 with a vote-share denominator · 34 with a national benchmark
Highest vote share
Largest share of the presidential candidate vote cast here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
65.3%
5,388 votes · D+32.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 63.3%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.6%
5,394 votes · R+39.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 69.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
5,871votes
62.1% of the vote · D+26.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 5,598 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
5,688votes
49.9% of the vote · R+0.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 5,681 votes
Best relative to the U.S.
This Place’s margin against the national margin in the same election — positive when it leaned toward the party more than the country did.
Democratic
Michael Dukakis1988
+32.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.7 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +29.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+53.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +26.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Senate and governor results are in the Office selector at the top of this page.
U.S. House
Each row is a county-allocated estimate of U.S. House votes for this district — county returns apportioned onto its boundary, not precinct-counted. “Vote lead” is the estimated local lead here, not necessarily the winner of the full contest.
| Year | Vote lead | Democratic | Republican | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | D | 65.9%4,212 | 34.1%2,184 | 6,396 |
| 2020 | D | 69.1%5,197 | 30.9%2,323 | 7,520 |
The district recorded a Democratic presidential margin of D+16.6 in 2024, compared with D+32.4 in 2008. No racial group formed a majority of its residents in the 2024 ACS 5-year, with White residents at 41.6%.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 32.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 51.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 6.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 16.6 points.
A population of 23,201, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,993 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 31 and State House District 34.
The state-house districts whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
District research tools
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Kansas 37th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20037/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.