- Lead
- 2,737
- Total
- 31,954
- vs nation
- R+7.1
Kansas 5th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 2,448
- Total
- 31,938
- vs nation
- R+12.1
- Lead
- 3,399
- Total
- 26,942
- vs nation
- R+14.7
- Lead
- 1,644
- Total
- 26,000
- vs nation
- R+10.2
- Lead
- 157
- Total
- 27,927
- vs nation
- R+6.7
- Lead
- 1,708
- Total
- 25,460
- vs nation
- R+4.3
- Lead
- 71
- Total
- 22,004
- vs nation
- R+0.8
- Lead
- 448
- Total
- 21,875
- vs nation
- R+6.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+8.6MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 76,3452024 5-year
- Population density
- 617 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 124 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $91,9152024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 70.3%2024 5-year
- Black
- 12.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+13.5 in 1964MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+47.7 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 16, KS · twin score 74.0
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 5th 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
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
56.0%
10,208 votes · D+13.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932 · 51.8%
Republican
Calvin Coolidge1924
66.7%
10,806 votes · R+47.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Warren G. Harding, 1920 · 65.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
14,299votes
44.8% of the vote · R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 14,293 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
17,030votes
53.3% of the vote · R+8.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 16,747 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
+10.0pts D vs U.S.
Place D+2.2 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +7.2 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.7 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Alf Landon, 1936 · +28.4 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 | R | 43.0%12,485 | 57.0%16,523 | 29,008 |
| 2020 | R | 44.0%13,150 | 56.0%16,769 | 29,919 |
Kansas 5th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 13.5 points in 1964 and a Republican high of 47.7 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 0.9 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 8.6 points.
A population of 76,345, a 70% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $91,915 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 16 and State Senate District 27.
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 5th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20005/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.