- Lead
- 531
- Total
- 11,625
- vs nation
- R+3.1
Kansas 87th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 583
- Total
- 11,800
- vs nation
- R+9.4
- Lead
- 1,374
- Total
- 10,660
- vs nation
- R+15.0
- Lead
- 1,335
- Total
- 10,238
- vs nation
- R+16.9
- Lead
- 772
- Total
- 10,847
- vs nation
- R+14.4
- Lead
- 2,020
- Total
- 9,853
- vs nation
- R+18.0
- Lead
- 1,250
- Total
- 9,072
- vs nation
- R+14.3
- Lead
- 1,394
- Total
- 9,212
- vs nation
- R+23.7
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+4.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,7662024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,686 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 14.1 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $77,0582024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 9.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 9.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+33.5 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.1 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 85, KS · twin score 94.6
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 87th 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
66.5%
2,331 votes · D+33.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 58.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
72.0%
1,701 votes · R+45.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 63.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
5,464votes
47.0% of the vote · R+4.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 5,449 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
6,032votes
51.1% of the vote · R+4.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 5,995 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
+20.4pts D vs U.S.
Place D+14.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +12.8 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+48.8pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.1 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +27.7 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%3,729 | 60.3%5,668 | 9,397 |
| 2020 | R | 41.0%4,072 | 59.0%5,851 | 9,923 |
Kansas 87th State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 33.5 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 47.1 points in 1892. The 2024 margin was 4.6 points.
A population of 23,766, a 66% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $77,058 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 85 and State House District 31.
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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