- Lead
- 8,246
- Total
- 18,249
- vs nation
- D+46.7
Kansas 4th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 11,450
- Total
- 21,250
- vs nation
- D+49.4
- Lead
- 11,081
- Total
- 20,092
- vs nation
- D+53.1
- Lead
- 13,235
- Total
- 21,553
- vs nation
- D+57.6
- Lead
- 15,775
- Total
- 24,481
- vs nation
- D+57.2
- Lead
- 12,995
- Total
- 22,172
- vs nation
- D+61.1
- Lead
- 12,659
- Total
- 20,399
- vs nation
- D+61.5
- Lead
- 12,087
- Total
- 20,679
- vs nation
- D+49.9
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+45.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,5012024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,909 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 38.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $58,6322024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 22.2%2024 5-year
- Black
- 31.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 34.0%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+64.4 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+44.6 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 29, KS · twin score 93.5
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 4th 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
Barack Obama2008
81.4%
19,924 votes · D+64.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Barack Obama, 2012 · 79.7%
Republican
Theodore Roosevelt1904
49.3%
2,352 votes · R+8.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · 49.2%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
21,734votes
79.4% of the vote · D+60.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John F. Kennedy, 1960 · 20,725 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1960
8,802votes
29.6% of the vote · D+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 8,730 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
Michael Dukakis1988
+67.5pts D vs U.S.
Place D+59.8 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Walter Mondale, 1984 · +62.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+46.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+44.6 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · −11.0 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 | 65.9%13,344 | 34.1%6,920 | 20,264 |
| 2020 | D | 69.1%16,463 | 30.9%7,360 | 23,823 |
Kansas 4th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 64.4 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 44.6 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 8.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 45.2 points.
A population of 73,501, a 22% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $58,632 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 29 and State Senate District 4.
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 4th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20004/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.