- Lead
- 2,182
- Total
- 8,251
- vs nation
- R+25.0
Kansas 81st State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,987
- Total
- 7,860
- vs nation
- R+29.7
- Lead
- 1,996
- Total
- 6,729
- vs nation
- R+31.8
- Lead
- 2,022
- Total
- 6,393
- vs nation
- R+35.5
- Lead
- 1,730
- Total
- 6,716
- vs nation
- R+33.0
- Lead
- 2,369
- Total
- 6,270
- vs nation
- R+35.3
- Lead
- 1,794
- Total
- 5,702
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 1,863
- Total
- 5,854
- vs nation
- R+40.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+26.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,0142024 5-year
- Population density
- 564 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 40.8 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,1422024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 7.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+19.0 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+60.4 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 97, KS · twin score 92.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 81st 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
58.3%
1,164 votes · D+16.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 48.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
79.7%
1,241 votes · R+60.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 76.0%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
2,969votes
36.0% of the vote · R+26.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 2,839 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
5,151votes
62.4% of the vote · R+26.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 4,826 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
−0.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+19.0 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · −5.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+53.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +42.9 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 | 39.7%3,611 | 60.3%5,489 | 9,100 |
Kansas 81st State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.0 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 60.4 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.2 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 26.4 points.
A population of 23,014, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,142 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 97 and State House District 98.
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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