- Lead
- 1,892
- Total
- 7,468
- vs nation
- R+23.9
Kansas 98th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,819
- Total
- 7,682
- vs nation
- R+28.1
- Lead
- 1,976
- Total
- 7,221
- vs nation
- R+29.5
- Lead
- 2,018
- Total
- 6,881
- vs nation
- R+33.2
- Lead
- 1,669
- Total
- 7,257
- vs nation
- R+30.3
- Lead
- 2,370
- Total
- 6,721
- vs nation
- R+32.8
- Lead
- 1,761
- Total
- 6,098
- vs nation
- R+29.4
- Lead
- 1,844
- Total
- 6,252
- vs nation
- R+38.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+25.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,3622024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,118 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 20.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $67,0472024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 66.6%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 16.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+25.7 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.2 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 69, KS · twin score 92.9
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 98th 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
58.9%
1,283 votes · D+18.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 51.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.7%
1,321 votes · R+56.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 74.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
2,827votes
36.8% of the vote · R+23.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 2,715 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
4,646votes
60.5% of the vote · R+23.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 4,607 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
+9.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+3.4 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +6.2 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+50.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +38.7 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Kansas 98th State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 25.7 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 56.2 points in 1928. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 25.3 points.
A population of 23,362, a 67% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $67,047 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 69 and State House District 81.
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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