- Lead
- 1,046
- Total
- 11,138
- vs nation
- D+10.9
Kansas 56th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,206
- Total
- 11,723
- vs nation
- D+5.8
- Lead
- 119
- Total
- 10,477
- vs nation
- R+1.0
- Lead
- 289
- Total
- 10,477
- vs nation
- R+1.1
- Lead
- 432
- Total
- 11,591
- vs nation
- R+3.5
- Lead
- 618
- Total
- 11,126
- vs nation
- R+3.1
- Lead
- 281
- Total
- 10,186
- vs nation
- D+2.2
- Lead
- 93
- Total
- 10,322
- vs nation
- R+7.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+9.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,5352024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,075 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 21.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $62,2562024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+14.4 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.5 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 53, KS · twin score 97.0
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 56th 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
56.1%
4,365 votes · D+12.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 55.7%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.8%
3,253 votes · R+50.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 70.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
6,267votes
53.5% of the vote · D+10.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 5,984 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
5,790votes
52.0% of the vote · R+5.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 5,735 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
+10.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.4 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Michael Dukakis, 1988 · +9.7 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+62.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+60.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +32.8 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%5,024 | 49.8%4,977 | 10,001 |
| 2020 | D | 52.6%5,750 | 47.4%5,180 | 10,930 |
Its 2024 presidential margin of D+9.4 ranked among Kansas's closest, against D+3.7 in 2008. The district had about 7,070 residents, 74.7% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 14.4 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 60.5 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 9.4 points.
A population of 23,535, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,256 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 53 and State House District 55.
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 56th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20056/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.