- Lead
- 1,175
- Total
- 11,137
- vs nation
- D+12.0
Kansas 53rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,357
- Total
- 11,799
- vs nation
- D+7.0
- Lead
- 392
- Total
- 10,637
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 580
- Total
- 10,714
- vs nation
- D+1.6
- Lead
- 759
- Total
- 11,791
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 305
- Total
- 11,270
- vs nation
- R+0.2
- Lead
- 557
- Total
- 10,333
- vs nation
- D+4.9
- Lead
- 355
- Total
- 10,482
- vs nation
- R+5.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+10.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,1252024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,141 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 10.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $66,6712024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 73.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+58.9 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 56, KS · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 53rd 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
57.2%
4,531 votes · D+15.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
73.5%
3,210 votes · R+47.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 69.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,406votes
54.3% of the vote · D+11.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 6,124 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,707votes
50.6% of the vote · R+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 5,660 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
+12.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+4.6 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · +12.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+60.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+58.9 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +30.4 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 | 50.2%4,937 | 49.8%4,891 | 9,828 |
| 2020 | D | 52.6%5,649 | 47.4%5,090 | 10,739 |
Kansas 53rd State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 58.9 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.0 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 10.6 points.
A population of 23,125, a 73% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $66,671 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 56 and State House District 92.
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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