- Lead
- 4,750
- Total
- 21,232
- vs nation
- D+23.8
Kansas 6th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 6,198
- Total
- 23,111
- vs nation
- D+22.4
- Lead
- 4,391
- Total
- 20,254
- vs nation
- D+19.6
- Lead
- 5,390
- Total
- 20,194
- vs nation
- D+22.8
- Lead
- 7,163
- Total
- 22,517
- vs nation
- D+24.5
- Lead
- 4,541
- Total
- 20,955
- vs nation
- D+24.1
- Lead
- 5,178
- Total
- 18,840
- vs nation
- D+27.0
- Lead
- 4,825
- Total
- 19,081
- vs nation
- D+16.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+22.4MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,5482024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,481 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 49 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $60,3372024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 42.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 10.1%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 39.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.8 in 2008MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+48.5 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 29, KS · twin score 88.2
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 6th 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
65.0%
14,637 votes · D+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 62.9%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
68.5%
12,273 votes · R+37.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · 66.3%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Barack Obama2008
14,637votes
65.0% of the vote · D+31.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 14,517 votes
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
13,383votes
56.0% of the vote · R+16.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1960 · 13,285 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
+32.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+24.9 · U.S. R+7.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Al Gore, 2000 · +27.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+50.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+48.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Theodore Roosevelt, 1904 · +22.4 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 | D | 64.4%13,979 | 35.6%7,715 | 21,694 |
| 2020 | D | 69.1%14,743 | 30.9%6,591 | 21,334 |
Kansas 6th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.8 points in 2008 and a Republican high of 48.5 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 4.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 22.4 points.
A population of 72,548, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $60,337 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 38.
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 6th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20006/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.