- Lead
- 3,947
- Total
- 22,933
- vs nation
- R+15.7
Kansas 28th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 3,770
- Total
- 23,459
- vs nation
- R+20.5
- Lead
- 4,730
- Total
- 21,821
- vs nation
- R+23.8
- Lead
- 4,773
- Total
- 20,650
- vs nation
- R+27.0
- Lead
- 3,609
- Total
- 21,914
- vs nation
- R+23.7
- Lead
- 5,941
- Total
- 20,162
- vs nation
- R+27.0
- Lead
- 4,227
- Total
- 18,292
- vs nation
- R+23.6
- Lead
- 4,501
- Total
- 18,790
- vs nation
- R+32.5
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+17.2MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,3432024 5-year
- Population density
- 1,686 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 42.9 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $59,2872024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 62.8%2024 5-year
- Black
- 6.4%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 17.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+29.6 in 1912MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+51.1 in 1904MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 21, OK · twin score 86.1
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 28th 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
61.9%
4,184 votes · D+24.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · 54.8%
Republican
Herbert Hoover1928
74.8%
3,762 votes · R+50.3 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Rutherford B. Hayes, 1876 · 72.8%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Joe Biden2020
9,519votes
40.6% of the vote · R+16.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Kamala Harris, 2024 · 9,296 votes
Republican
Donald Trump2020
13,289votes
56.6% of the vote · R+16.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Donald Trump, 2024 · 13,243 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
+16.6pts D vs U.S.
Place D+10.5 · U.S. R+6.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +10.1 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+49.0pts R vs U.S.
Place R+47.4 · U.S. D+1.7 · a third-party candidate carried the Place · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Herbert Hoover, 1928 · +32.8 pts
Current officeholders
State legislative officeholder from OpenStates nightly current-legislator data.
Kansas Senate District 28 stands out as one of the few districts in the state where the 2024 presidential vote tilted Democratic, suggesting a suburban or college-town demographic shift that makes it a closely watched target in legislative cycles.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 29.6 points in 1912 and a Republican high of 51.1 points in 1904. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 1.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 17.2 points.
A population of 72,343, a 63% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $59,287 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 21 and State Senate District 17.
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 28th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20028/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.