- Lead
- 8,578
- Total
- 39,855
- vs nation
- R+20.1
Kansas 16th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 8,425
- Total
- 38,738
- vs nation
- R+26.2
- Lead
- 9,497
- Total
- 33,319
- vs nation
- R+30.6
- Lead
- 8,715
- Total
- 31,693
- vs nation
- R+31.4
- Lead
- 6,902
- Total
- 33,504
- vs nation
- R+27.9
- Lead
- 10,012
- Total
- 31,129
- vs nation
- R+29.7
- Lead
- 6,510
- Total
- 27,287
- vs nation
- R+24.4
- Lead
- 6,791
- Total
- 28,837
- vs nation
- R+32.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+21.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 74,1222024 5-year
- Population density
- 239 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 310 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $99,8012024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 76.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 5.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 6.3%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+23.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+55.5 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 27, KS · twin score 94.2
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 16th 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
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
61.7%
8,320 votes · D+23.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 55.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
77.1%
7,967 votes · R+55.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Richard Nixon, 1972 · 66.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
15,283votes
38.3% of the vote · R+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 14,677 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
23,861votes
59.9% of the vote · R+21.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,102 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
William J. Bryan1896
+13.9pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.8 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · +4.4 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+48.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.8 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +38.0 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 | R | 33.8%10,601 | 66.2%20,750 | 31,351 |
Kansas 16th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 23.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 55.5 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 21.5 points.
A population of 74,122, a 76% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $99,801 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 27 and State Senate District 34.
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 16th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20016/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.