- Lead
- 17,935
- Total
- 31,303
- vs nation
- D+58.8
Kansas 2nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 18,513
- Total
- 32,201
- vs nation
- D+53.0
- Lead
- 14,447
- Total
- 29,381
- vs nation
- D+47.1
- Lead
- 12,046
- Total
- 27,243
- vs nation
- D+40.4
- Lead
- 15,246
- Total
- 30,585
- vs nation
- D+42.6
- Lead
- 10,368
- Total
- 27,559
- vs nation
- D+40.1
- Lead
- 5,010
- Total
- 21,461
- vs nation
- D+22.8
- Lead
- 5,333
- Total
- 20,390
- vs nation
- D+17.6
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+57.3MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,5852024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,769 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 41.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,9352024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.9%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.3%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+57.5 in 2020MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+45.8 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 14, CO · twin score 92.7
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 2nd State Senate 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
77.9%
24,379 votes · D+57.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 77.4%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
69.0%
3,583 votes · R+39.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Calvin Coolidge, 1924 · 64.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
24,934votes
77.4% of the vote · D+57.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 24,379 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
8,278votes
30.0% of the vote · D+37.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 7,644 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
+58.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+57.3 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · +53.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+47.5pts R vs U.S.
Place R+45.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Wendell Willkie, 1940 · +29.8 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 | 69.2%23,971 | 30.8%10,659 | 34,630 |
Kansas 2nd State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 57.5 points in 2020 and a Republican high of 45.8 points in 1892. The 2024 margin was 57.3 points.
A population of 73,585, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,935 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 14 and State Senate District 8.
The state-senate 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 2nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20002/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.