- Lead
- 14,530
- Total
- 36,274
- vs nation
- R+38.6
Kansas 26th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 13,807
- Total
- 34,576
- vs nation
- R+44.4
- Lead
- 13,259
- Total
- 29,956
- vs nation
- R+46.4
- Lead
- 13,524
- Total
- 28,549
- vs nation
- R+51.2
- Lead
- 12,549
- Total
- 29,669
- vs nation
- R+49.6
- Lead
- 14,830
- Total
- 28,411
- vs nation
- R+49.7
- Lead
- 11,827
- Total
- 25,558
- vs nation
- R+46.8
- Lead
- 12,061
- Total
- 26,337
- vs nation
- R+54.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+40.1MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,0742024 5-year
- Population density
- 153 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 477 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $93,9672024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 81.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.7%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 8.7%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+9.8 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+72.8 in 1928MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 11, KY · twin score 96.1
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 26th 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
49.5%
4,140 votes · R+0.5 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 39.5%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
86.0%
6,277 votes · R+72.8 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1952 · 80.1%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Kamala Harris2024
10,570votes
29.1% of the vote · R+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Joe Biden, 2020 · 10,011 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2024
25,100votes
69.2% of the vote · R+40.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2020 · 23,818 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
Woodrow Wilson1912
−9.7pts D vs U.S.
Place D+9.8 · U.S. D+19.5 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · −21.9 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+58.2pts R vs U.S.
Place R+56.5 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +55.4 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 | R | 39.7%11,465 | 60.3%17,427 | 28,892 |
| 2020 | R | 41.0%12,519 | 59.0%17,989 | 30,508 |
Kansas 26th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 9.8 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 72.8 points in 1928. The 2024 margin was 40.1 points.
A population of 73,074, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $93,967 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 11 and State Senate District 31.
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 26th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20026/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.