- Lead
- 461
- Total
- 6,067
- vs nation
- R+6.1
Kansas 96th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 416
- Total
- 6,450
- vs nation
- R+10.9
- Lead
- 808
- Total
- 6,248
- vs nation
- R+15.0
- Lead
- 793
- Total
- 5,884
- vs nation
- R+17.3
- Lead
- 398
- Total
- 6,304
- vs nation
- R+13.6
- Lead
- 1,128
- Total
- 5,735
- vs nation
- R+17.2
- Lead
- 699
- Total
- 5,217
- vs nation
- R+13.9
- Lead
- 798
- Total
- 5,381
- vs nation
- R+23.4
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+7.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 22,8232024 5-year
- Population density
- 2,889 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 7.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $50,3472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 58.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 8.5%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 19.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+34.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.4 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 95, KS · twin score 93.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 96th 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
66.3%
1,357 votes · D+32.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 62.0%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.7%
999 votes · R+40.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 66.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,932votes
45.5% of the vote · R+6.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2008 · 2,877 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
3,409votes
59.4% of the vote · R+19.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 3,348 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
+31.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+25.3 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · James M. Cox, 1920 · +15.3 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+47.1pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +24.9 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Kansas 96th State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 34.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 45.4 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 7.6 points.
A population of 22,823, a 58% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $50,347 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 95 and State House District 60.
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 96th State House District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-lower/20096/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.