- Lead
- 796
- Total
- 6,437
- vs nation
- D+13.8
Kansas 86th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 901
- Total
- 6,858
- vs nation
- D+8.7
- Lead
- 290
- Total
- 6,554
- vs nation
- D+2.3
- Lead
- 354
- Total
- 6,140
- vs nation
- D+1.9
- Lead
- 841
- Total
- 6,642
- vs nation
- D+5.4
- Lead
- 22
- Total
- 5,876
- vs nation
- D+2.1
- Lead
- 255
- Total
- 5,601
- vs nation
- D+4.0
- Lead
- 141
- Total
- 5,653
- vs nation
- R+6.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+12.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 24,1592024 5-year
- Population density
- 4,314 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $48,5722024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 49.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 11.6%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 26.6%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+64.1 in 1896MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+27.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 83, KS · twin score 94.8
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 86th 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
82.1%
256 votes · D+64.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 74.2%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
62.5%
879 votes · R+25.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 54.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
3,774votes
55.0% of the vote · D+13.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 3,647 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
2,914votes
49.6% of the vote · R+0.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 2,873 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
+70.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+64.1 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1900 · +50.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+29.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+27.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +7.6 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Anchored in a more urbanized pocket of Kansas, District 86 delivered a double-digit Democratic presidential margin in 2024 — a notable outlier in a state that leaned heavily Republican statewide that cycle.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.1 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 27.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.8 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 12.4 points.
A population of 24,159, a 50% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $48,572 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 83 and State House District 95.
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 86th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20086/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.