- Lead
- 434
- Total
- 24,312
- vs nation
- D+3.3
Kansas 22nd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 766
- Total
- 23,910
- vs nation
- R+1.3
- Lead
- 766
- Total
- 21,974
- vs nation
- R+5.6
- Lead
- 2,530
- Total
- 21,101
- vs nation
- R+15.8
- Lead
- 1,616
- Total
- 23,100
- vs nation
- R+14.3
- Lead
- 4,764
- Total
- 20,911
- vs nation
- R+20.3
- Lead
- 4,484
- Total
- 18,253
- vs nation
- R+25.1
- Lead
- 4,367
- Total
- 19,607
- vs nation
- R+30.8
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- D+1.8MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 71,5302024 5-year
- Population density
- 117 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 610 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $61,0982024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 72.0%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 10.4%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+19.5 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+64.0 in 1876MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 9, WY · twin score 75.7
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 22nd 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
Joe Biden2020
49.9%
11,940 votes · D+3.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 49.6%
Republican
Dwight D. Eisenhower1952
80.3%
9,799 votes · R+61.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 79.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
12,063votes
49.6% of the vote · D+1.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 11,940 votes
Republican
George W. Bush2004
12,672votes
60.6% of the vote · R+22.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · 12,111 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
+3.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+1.8 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · 0.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+53.3pts R vs U.S.
Place R+51.7 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · +50.3 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 | 45.6%10,817 | 54.4%12,929 | 23,746 |
| 2020 | D | 51.7%12,850 | 48.3%11,986 | 24,836 |
Anchored in urban Johnson or Wyandotte County territory, this district posts a D+1.8 presidential margin that sits well outside the norm for a state that regularly delivers statewide offices to Republicans by double digits.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.5 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 64.0 points in 1876. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 1.8 points.
A population of 71,530, a 72% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,098 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 9 and State Senate District 19.
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 22nd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20022/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.