- Lead
- 1,315
- Total
- 7,371
- vs nation
- D+19.3
Kansas 83rd State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,480
- Total
- 7,803
- vs nation
- D+14.5
- Lead
- 772
- Total
- 7,428
- vs nation
- D+8.3
- Lead
- 882
- Total
- 6,951
- vs nation
- D+8.8
- Lead
- 1,430
- Total
- 7,526
- vs nation
- D+11.7
- Lead
- 342
- Total
- 6,550
- vs nation
- D+7.7
- Lead
- 651
- Total
- 6,217
- vs nation
- D+10.0
- Lead
- 535
- Total
- 6,369
- vs nation
- R+0.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+17.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,1202024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,467 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.4 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $51,9952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 19.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 20.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+58.2 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.1 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 86, KS · twin score 94.8
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 83rd 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
William J. Bryan1896
79.0%
327 votes · D+58.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 77.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
60.8%
895 votes · R+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 50.6%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
4,527votes
58.0% of the vote · D+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 4,375 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
3,057votes
46.7% of the vote · D+5.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 3,047 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
+64.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+58.2 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +55.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+28.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +4.4 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Kansas 83rd State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 58.2 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 27.1 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.8 points.
A population of 24,120, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $51,995 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 86 and State House District 58.
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.
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