- Lead
- 970
- Total
- 35,866
- vs nation
- R+1.2
Kansas 23rd State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 1,039
- Total
- 35,797
- vs nation
- R+7.4
- Lead
- 4,547
- Total
- 30,496
- vs nation
- R+17.0
- Lead
- 8,405
- Total
- 28,746
- vs nation
- R+33.1
- Lead
- 6,206
- Total
- 29,415
- vs nation
- R+28.4
- Lead
- 9,367
- Total
- 27,191
- vs nation
- R+32.0
- Lead
- 7,725
- Total
- 22,938
- vs nation
- R+34.2
- Lead
- 6,382
- Total
- 20,257
- vs nation
- R+40.0
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+2.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,7932024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,182 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 61.6 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $101,6282024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 71.1%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.0%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 13.2%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+15.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+57.9 in 1972MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 20, IN · twin score 93.1
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 23rd 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. Roosevelt1932
48.0%
948 votes · R+2.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · 48.0%
Republican
Richard Nixon1972
77.8%
8,822 votes · R+57.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 76.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
17,088votes
47.6% of the vote · R+2.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 16,824 votes
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
18,253votes
63.5% of the vote · R+29.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 18,134 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
−1.2pts D vs U.S.
Place R+2.7 · U.S. R+1.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1916 · −3.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+48.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+46.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Thomas E. Dewey, 1944 · +45.8 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 | 56.3%21,559 | 43.7%16,738 | 38,297 |
Kansas 23rd State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 15.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 57.9 points in 1972. The 2024 margin was 2.7 points.
A population of 72,793, a 71% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $101,628 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 20 and State Senate District 10.
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 23rd State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20023/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.