- Lead
- 2,458
- Total
- 10,704
- vs nation
- R+21.5
Kansas 72nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,438
- Total
- 11,521
- vs nation
- R+25.6
- Lead
- 2,735
- Total
- 10,175
- vs nation
- R+29.0
- Lead
- 2,449
- Total
- 9,645
- vs nation
- R+29.2
- Lead
- 2,162
- Total
- 10,565
- vs nation
- R+27.7
- Lead
- 3,121
- Total
- 10,205
- vs nation
- R+28.1
- Lead
- 2,662
- Total
- 9,093
- vs nation
- R+29.8
- Lead
- 2,525
- Total
- 9,644
- vs nation
- R+34.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+23.0MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,3632024 5-year
- Population density
- 117 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 200 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,1622024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 15.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+17.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.2 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 82, KS · twin score 92.6
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 72nd 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. Roosevelt1936
53.6%
3,459 votes · D+7.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 50.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.7%
4,205 votes · R+56.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 73.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,412votes
38.3% of the vote · R+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 4,062 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
6,850votes
59.5% of the vote · R+21.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 6,568 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−2.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+17.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · −4.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+53.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · +38.9 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 | 35.4%3,877 | 64.6%7,061 | 10,938 |
Its Republican presidential margin was R+23.0 in 2024 and R+20.5 in 2008. About 29,400 residents lived here, with White alone at 74.1% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 17.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 56.2 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 23.0 points.
A population of 23,363, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,162 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 82 and State House District 71.
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 72nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20072/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.