- Lead
- 1,153
- Total
- 9,896
- vs nation
- R+10.2
Kansas 40th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,058
- Total
- 9,954
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 1,315
- Total
- 8,648
- vs nation
- R+17.3
- Lead
- 766
- Total
- 8,205
- vs nation
- R+13.2
- Lead
- 136
- Total
- 8,684
- vs nation
- R+8.8
- Lead
- 581
- Total
- 7,742
- vs nation
- R+5.0
- Lead
- 187
- Total
- 6,572
- vs nation
- R+3.4
- Lead
- 66
- Total
- 6,458
- vs nation
- R+7.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+11.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,9732024 5-year
- Population density
- 551 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 43.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $88,7632024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+28.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+41.6 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 34, AK · twin score 86.8
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 40th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1932
63.5%
2,989 votes · D+28.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 61.9%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
62.9%
2,428 votes · R+38.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 62.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,288votes
43.1% of the vote · R+10.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 4,260 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,413votes
54.7% of the vote · R+11.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 5,346 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
William J. Bryan1896
+23.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+16.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +16.2 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+43.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+41.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +17.5 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 | R | 38.5%3,794 | 61.5%6,050 | 9,844 |
| 2020 | R | 38.1%3,765 | 61.9%6,108 | 9,873 |
Kansas 40th State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 28.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 41.6 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 11.7 points.
A population of 23,973, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $88,763 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 34 and State House District 99.
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 40th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20040/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.