- Lead
- 3,768
- Total
- 11,607
- vs nation
- R+31.0
Kansas 82nd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,730
- Total
- 11,511
- vs nation
- R+36.9
- Lead
- 3,913
- Total
- 10,313
- vs nation
- R+40.0
- Lead
- 3,873
- Total
- 9,903
- vs nation
- R+43.0
- Lead
- 3,524
- Total
- 10,370
- vs nation
- R+41.3
- Lead
- 4,415
- Total
- 9,787
- vs nation
- R+42.7
- Lead
- 3,400
- Total
- 8,882
- vs nation
- R+38.8
- Lead
- 3,488
- Total
- 9,110
- vs nation
- R+46.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+32.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,2232024 5-year
- Population density
- 472 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 49.2 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $85,7232024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 84.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+22.3 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.2 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 90, KS · twin score 99.0
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 82nd 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
54.3%
1,918 votes · D+8.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 46.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
81.3%
2,438 votes · R+64.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 75.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
3,812votes
32.8% of the vote · R+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 3,725 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
7,580votes
65.3% of the vote · R+32.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,455 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
+2.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+22.3 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · −6.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+51.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Bob Dole, 1996 · +46.8 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 | R | 38.4%3,567 | 61.6%5,722 | 9,289 |
| 2020 | R | 39.8%3,898 | 60.2%5,898 | 9,796 |
The district recorded a Republican presidential margin of R+32.5 in 2024, compared with R+34.0 in 2008. About 20,500 residents lived here, with White alone at 69.3% in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 22.3 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 64.2 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 32.5 points.
A population of 23,223, a 84% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $85,723 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 90 and State House District 101.
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 82nd State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20082/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.