| Kansas's 33rd State Senate district | |||
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| Demographics | 84% White 1% Black 12% Hispanic 0% Asian 1% Native American 2% Other | ||
| Population (2018) | 68,480 [1] | ||
Kansas's 33rd Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Mary Jo Taylor since 2017; Taylor was defeated in the 2020 Republican primary by State Representative Alicia Straub. [2]
District 33 covers a large swath of rural west-central Kansas, including all of Barton, Edwards, Kiowa, Lane, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Rush, Scott, and Stafford Counties as well as parts of Hodgeman and Rice Counties. Communities in the district include Great Bend, Pratt, Larned, Scott City, and Ness City. [3]
The district overlaps with Kansas's 1st and 4th congressional districts, and with the 108th, 109th, 112th, 113th, 117th, and 118th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. [4]
| Primary election | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Republican | Alicia Straub | 9,257 | 59.8 | |
| Republican | Mary Jo Taylor (incumbent) | 6,218 | 40.2 | |
| Total votes | 15,475 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Republican | Alicia Straub | 26,740 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 26,740 | 100 | ||
| Republican hold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Republican | Mary Jo Taylor | 7,334 | 51.8 | |
| Republican | Larry Salmans | 6,816 | 48.2 | |
| Total votes | 14,150 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Republican | Mary Jo Taylor | 21,114 | 76.6 | |
| Democratic | Matt Bristow | 6,467 | 23.4 | |
| Total votes | 27,581 | 100 | ||
| Republican hold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Republican | Mitch Holmes | 7,635 | 53.0 | |
| Republican | Ruth Teichman (incumbent) | 6,762 | 47.0 | |
| Total votes | 14,397 | 100 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Republican | Mitch Holmes | 23,049 | 100 | |
| Total votes | 23,049 | 100 | ||
| Republican hold | ||||
| Year | Office | Results [6] [7] |
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| 2020 | President | Trump 79.2 – 18.9% |
| 2018 | Governor | Kobach 58.0 – 29.5% |
| 2016 | President | Trump 78.3 – 16.7% |
| 2012 | President | Romney 76.7 – 21.6% |
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