- Lead
- 9,870
- Total
- 19,935
- vs nation
- R+48.0
Kansas 38th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 9,466
- Total
- 21,481
- vs nation
- R+48.5
- Lead
- 9,367
- Total
- 19,993
- vs nation
- R+48.9
- Lead
- 9,842
- Total
- 20,678
- vs nation
- R+51.5
- Lead
- 9,732
- Total
- 22,075
- vs nation
- R+51.4
- Lead
- 12,912
- Total
- 22,894
- vs nation
- R+53.9
- Lead
- 10,892
- Total
- 22,191
- vs nation
- R+49.6
- Lead
- 9,543
- Total
- 22,969
- vs nation
- R+50.1
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+49.5MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 73,4212024 5-year
- Population density
- 12 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 5,997 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $68,8952024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 43.4%2024 5-year
- Black
- 1.9%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 50.5%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+21.9 in 1936MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+56.4 in 2004MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 39, KS · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 38th 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
60.9%
13,430 votes · D+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Samuel J. Tilden, 1876 · 57.7%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
77.7%
17,791 votes · R+56.4 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Ronald Reagan, 1984 · 74.7%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Franklin D. Roosevelt1936
13,430votes
60.9% of the vote · D+21.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Lyndon B. Johnson, 1964 · 12,578 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
18,707votes
74.7% of the vote · R+50.6 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 17,791 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 Wilson1916
+10.3pts D vs U.S.
Place D+13.4 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Woodrow Wilson, 1912 · +2.0 pts
Republican
Benjamin Harrison1892
+55.9pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.3 · U.S. D+1.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · +53.9 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 | 22.6%4,369 | 77.4%14,925 | 19,294 |
| 2020 | R | 41.4%6,028 | 58.6%8,528 | 14,556 |
In 2024 it voted Republican by R+49.5, against R+44.1 in 2008. The district had about 72,400 residents, 51.2% White alone in the 2024 ACS 5-year.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 21.9 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 56.4 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 49.5 points.
A population of 73,421, a 43% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $68,895 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 39 and State Senate District 27.
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 38th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20038/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.