- Lead
- 4,204
- Total
- 10,373
- vs nation
- R+39.1
Kansas 79th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 4,287
- Total
- 10,593
- vs nation
- R+44.9
- Lead
- 3,854
- Total
- 9,690
- vs nation
- R+41.9
- Lead
- 2,791
- Total
- 9,708
- vs nation
- R+32.6
- Lead
- 2,669
- Total
- 10,548
- vs nation
- R+32.6
- Lead
- 3,376
- Total
- 10,895
- vs nation
- R+28.5
- Lead
- 1,896
- Total
- 10,696
- vs nation
- R+18.2
- Lead
- 1,656
- Total
- 11,844
- vs nation
- R+22.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+40.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,5752024 5-year
- Population density
- 31 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 756 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $64,3512024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.1%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.2 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.6 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 76, KS · twin score 95.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 79th 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
59.4%
8,422 votes · D+19.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 53.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
78.7%
9,179 votes · R+59.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 69.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
8,422votes
59.4% of the vote · D+19.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 6,746 votes
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
9,179votes
78.7% of the vote · R+59.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 8,295 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
+7.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+1.9 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +7.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+47.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · +44.9 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 | 25.1%2,456 | 74.9%7,323 | 9,779 |
| 2020 | R | 27.0%2,781 | 73.0%7,503 | 10,284 |
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+40.5 in 2024, compared with R+25.3 in 2008. The district had about 17,900 residents, 84.7% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.2 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 59.6 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 40.5 points.
A population of 23,575, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $64,351 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 76 and State House District 12.
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 79th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20079/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.