- Lead
- 1,012
- Total
- 15,331
- vs nation
- R+5.1
Kansas 117th State House District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 980
- Total
- 13,796
- vs nation
- R+11.6
- Lead
- 1,792
- Total
- 10,756
- vs nation
- R+18.8
- Lead
- 3,206
- Total
- 10,360
- vs nation
- R+34.8
- Lead
- 2,526
- Total
- 10,694
- vs nation
- R+30.9
- Lead
- 3,775
- Total
- 10,168
- vs nation
- R+34.7
- Lead
- 3,312
- Total
- 8,548
- vs nation
- R+39.3
- Lead
- 2,831
- Total
- 7,708
- vs nation
- R+45.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+6.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 23,0872024 5-year
- Population density
- 207 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 112 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $137,8022024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 82.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.8%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.9%2024 5-year
- Peak Republican margin
- R+76.5 in 1924MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State House District 121, KS · twin score 97.7
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 117th 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
Kamala Harris2024
45.8%
7,023 votes · R+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 45.1%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
87.7%
978 votes · R+75.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 86.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
7,023votes
45.8% of the vote · R+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 6,221 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
8,035votes
52.4% of the vote · R+6.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 7,201 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
Kamala Harris2024
−5.1pts D vs U.S.
Place R+6.6 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · −11.6 pts
Republican
Alf Landon1936
+79.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.8 · U.S. D+24.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +74.3 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 | D | 59.1%7,061 | 40.9%4,888 | 11,949 |
Kansas 117th State House District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Republican high of 76.5 points in 1924. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.5 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 6.6 points.
A population of 23,087, a 82% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $137,802 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State House District 121 and State House District 26.
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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