- Lead
- 8,624
- Total
- 41,658
- vs nation
- D+22.2
Kansas 8th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,192
- Total
- 43,908
- vs nation
- D+14.2
- Lead
- 2,326
- Total
- 38,656
- vs nation
- D+3.9
- Lead
- 2,980
- Total
- 35,800
- vs nation
- R+12.2
- Lead
- 56
- Total
- 37,264
- vs nation
- R+7.1
- Lead
- 4,765
- Total
- 33,532
- vs nation
- R+11.8
- Lead
- 4,090
- Total
- 28,091
- vs nation
- R+15.1
- Lead
- 3,380
- Total
- 24,648
- vs nation
- R+22.2
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+20.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,7772024 5-year
- Population density
- 3,279 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 22.5 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $95,9842024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 75.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 4.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 7.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+31.9 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+49.2 in 1892MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 7, KS · twin score 96.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 8th 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
59.5%
24,796 votes · D+20.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 58.1%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
70.4%
9,126 votes · R+43.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 68.5%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
25,525votes
58.1% of the vote · D+18.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 24,796 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
18,975votes
53.0% of the vote · R+8.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 18,942 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
+22.2pts D vs U.S.
Place D+20.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1908 · +19.5 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+50.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+49.2 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +31.9 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 | 57.2%22,259 | 42.8%16,642 | 38,901 |
Kansas 8th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Democratic.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 31.9 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 49.2 points in 1892. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 2.0 points toward the Democratic candidate; the 2024 margin was 20.7 points.
A population of 73,777, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $95,984 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 7 and State Senate District 21.
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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