- Lead
- 5,527
- Total
- 7,823
- vs nation
- D+72.1
Kansas 46th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 5,897
- Total
- 8,301
- vs nation
- D+66.6
- Lead
- 4,949
- Total
- 7,783
- vs nation
- D+61.5
- Lead
- 4,417
- Total
- 7,046
- vs nation
- D+58.8
- Lead
- 5,352
- Total
- 7,990
- vs nation
- D+59.7
- Lead
- 4,063
- Total
- 6,983
- vs nation
- D+60.6
- Lead
- 2,342
- Total
- 5,310
- vs nation
- D+43.6
- Lead
- 2,395
- Total
- 5,076
- vs nation
- D+38.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+70.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,7532024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,026 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $52,0172024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 74.7%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+71.0 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+29.0 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 10, KS · twin score 97.2
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 46th 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
Kamala Harris2024
84.6%
6,617 votes · D+70.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 84.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
56.3%
602 votes · R+13.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 52.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,981votes
84.1% of the vote · D+71.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 6,617 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
1,359votes
19.5% of the vote · D+58.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 1,268 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
Kamala Harris2024
+72.1pts D vs U.S.
Place D+70.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +66.6 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+30.6pts R vs U.S.
Place R+29.0 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +3.0 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in a dense urban core, this district recorded a 70.7-point Democratic presidential margin in 2024, making it an outlier in a state that otherwise tilts reliably Republican at the statewide level.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 71.0 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 29.0 points in 1892. The 2024 margin was 70.7 points.
A population of 23,753, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $52,017 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 10 and State House District 16.
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 46th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20046/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.