- Lead
- 12,415
- Total
- 23,108
- vs nation
- R+52.3
Kansas 39th State Senate District
President margin by year
Place winner margin
President results by year
Modeled candidate-vote estimate on current district boundaries
- Lead
- 12,041
- Total
- 24,910
- vs nation
- R+52.8
- Lead
- 11,928
- Total
- 23,273
- vs nation
- R+53.3
- Lead
- 12,205
- Total
- 22,361
- vs nation
- R+58.4
- Lead
- 12,608
- Total
- 24,919
- vs nation
- R+57.9
- Lead
- 14,919
- Total
- 25,193
- vs nation
- R+56.8
- Lead
- 12,800
- Total
- 24,659
- vs nation
- R+52.4
- Lead
- 11,210
- Total
- 25,018
- vs nation
- R+53.3
Key facts
- 2024 presidential margin
- R+53.7MIT Election Lab
- Population
- 72,5192024 5-year
- Population density
- 8.2 / sq mi2024 5-year · TIGER/Line
- Land area
- 8,813 sq miTIGER/Line
- Median household income
- $70,9662024 5-year
- White (non-Hispanic)
- 48.5%2024 5-year
- Black
- 2.2%2024 5-year
- Hispanic / Latino
- 43.8%2024 5-year
- Peak Democratic margin
- D+19.0 in 1932MIT Election Lab
- Peak Republican margin
- R+59.2 in 2004MIT Election Lab
- Most similar
- State Senate District 38, KS · twin score 98.3
presidential history
Party record book
Kansas 39th State Senate District · the strongest Democratic and Republican presidential performances recorded here, measured three ways.
1892–2024 (partial returns from 1884) · 36 presidential cycles · 36 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
57.9%
10,875 votes · D+19.0 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936 · 57.6%
Republican
George W. Bush2004
79.1%
19,932 votes · R+59.2 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Mitt Romney, 2012 · 76.4%
Most votes
Largest number of votes cast for the party’s presidential nominee here.
Democratic
Lyndon B. Johnson1964
11,489votes
55.9% of the vote · D+12.7 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · Jimmy Carter, 1976 · 11,151 votes
Republican
Ronald Reagan1984
20,051votes
76.3% of the vote · R+53.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · George W. Bush, 2004 · 19,932 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
+4.8pts D vs U.S.
Place D+7.9 · U.S. D+3.1 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · William J. Bryan, 1896 · +1.7 pts
Republican
Mitt Romney2012
+58.4pts R vs U.S.
Place R+54.6 · U.S. D+3.9 · modeled estimate
Runner-up · John McCain, 2008 · +57.9 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 | 20.2%4,567 | 79.8%18,037 | 22,604 |
| 2020 | R | 37.7%6,750 | 62.3%11,142 | 17,892 |
Kansas 39th State Senate District sits in the Great Plains. In 2024 it voted Republican.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 19.0 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 59.2 points in 2004. Between 2020 and 2024 the district moved 5.4 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 53.7 points.
A population of 72,519, a 49% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $70,966 describe the district. The district's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of State Senate District 38 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 39th State Senate District. Akashic. https://akashic.app/sld-upper/20039/. Accessed May 20, 2026. License: CC BY 4.0.