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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state of Kansas: Governor; Lieutenant governor; Secretary of state; Attorney general; State treasurer; Insurance commissioner; The table also indicates the historical party composition in the: State Senate; State House of Representatives; State delegation to the U.S. Senate
Map based on last Senate election in each state as of 2024. Starting with the 2000 United States presidential election, the terms "red state" and "blue state" have referred to US states whose voters vote predominantly for one party—the Republican Party in red states and the Democratic Party in blue states—in presidential and other statewide elections.
Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Kansas, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1861, Kansas has participated in every U.S. presidential election. As of 2024, Kansas has the longest streak of being decided by more than a 5% margin in presidential elections, with the last race this close being in 1896.
Political party strength in U.S. states is the level of representation of the various political parties in the United States in each statewide elective office providing legislators to the state and to the U.S. Congress and electing the executives at the state (U.S. state governor) and national (U.S. President) level.
Of 11 Democratic leadership spots, only one represents a district outside of Lawrence and the Kansas City metro: Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau, D-Wichita, who is the Senate assistant minority leader.
Democrats are on a mission to break the Republican supermajorities in the Kansas Statehouse in the 2024 elections, and a major part of the strategy is to flip two Topeka seats.
While he failed to break the 56-year Republican winning streak in Sedgwick County, the second most populous in the state and home to the state's largest city Wichita, his 42.9 percent of the vote there was the strongest for a Democrat since Jimmy Carter received 46.5 percent of the vote in 1976. [51]
Republican advantage. Still, Boyda will be an underdog against Schmidt — a well-established Kansas Republican who was a member of the state Senate and served three terms as Kansas attorney ...