United States presidential elections in Kansas

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Presidential elections in Kansas
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Number of elections41
Voted Democratic6
Voted Republican34
Voted other1 [a]
Voted for winning candidate28
Voted for losing candidate13

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.

Contents

Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.

YearWinner (nationally)VotesPercentRunner-up (nationally)VotesPercentOther national
candidates [b]
VotesPercentElectoral
votes
Notes
2024 [1] Donald Trump 758,80257.16 Kamala Harris 544,85341.046
2020 [2] Joe Biden 570,32341.51 Donald Trump 771,40656.146
2016 [3] Donald Trump [c] 671,01856.16 Hillary Clinton 427,00535.746
2012 [4] Barack Obama 440,72637.99 Mitt Romney 692,63459.716
2008 [5] Barack Obama 514,76541.55 John McCain 699,65556.616
2004 [6] George W. Bush 736,45662.00 John Kerry 434,99336.626
2000 [7] George W. Bush [c] 622,33258.04 Al Gore 399,27637.246
1996 [8] Bill Clinton 387,65936.08 Bob Dole 583,24554.29 Ross Perot 92,6398.626
1992 Bill Clinton 390,43433.74 George H. W. Bush 449,95138.88 Ross Perot 312,35826.996
1988 George H. W. Bush 554,04955.79 Michael Dukakis 422,63642.567
1984 Ronald Reagan 677,29666.27 Walter Mondale 333,14932.607
1980 Ronald Reagan 566,81257.85 Jimmy Carter 326,15033.29 John B. Anderson 68,2316.967
1976 Jimmy Carter 430,42144.94 Gerald Ford 502,75252.497
1972 Richard Nixon 619,81267.66 George McGovern 270,28729.507
1968 Richard Nixon 478,67454.84 Hubert Humphrey 302,99634.72 George Wallace 88,92110.197
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson 464,02854.09 Barry Goldwater 386,57945.067
1960 John F. Kennedy 363,21339.10 Richard Nixon 561,47460.458
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower 566,87865.44 Adlai Stevenson II 296,31734.21 T. Coleman Andrews/
Unpledged Electors [d]
8
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower 616,30268.77 Adlai Stevenson II 273,29630.50-8
1948 Harry S. Truman 351,90244.61 Thomas E. Dewey 423,03953.63 Strom Thurmond 8
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt 287,45839.18 Thomas E. Dewey 442,09660.258
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt 364,72542.40 Wendell Willkie 489,16956.869
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt 464,52053.67 Alf Landon 397,72745.959
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt 424,20453.56 Herbert Hoover 349,49844.139
1928 Herbert Hoover 513,67272.02 Al Smith 193,00327.0610
1924 Calvin Coolidge 407,67161.54 John W. Davis 156,31923.60 Robert M. La Follette 98,46114.8610
1920 Warren G. Harding 369,26864.75 James M. Cox 185,46432.52 Parley P. Christensen 10
1916 Woodrow Wilson 314,58849.95 Charles E. Hughes 277,65844.0910
1912 Woodrow Wilson 143,66339.30 Theodore Roosevelt 120,21032.88 William H. Taft 74,84520.4710
1908 William H. Taft 197,21652.46 William Jennings Bryan 161,20942.8810
1904 Theodore Roosevelt 212,95564.81 Alton B. Parker 86,17426.2310
1900 William McKinley 185,95552.56 William Jennings Bryan 162,60145.9610
1896 William McKinley 159,34547.63 William Jennings Bryan 171,67551.3210
1892 Grover Cleveland no ballots Benjamin Harrison 157,24148.40 James B. Weaver 163,11150.2010
1888 Benjamin Harrison [c] 182,90455.23 Grover Cleveland 102,74531.039
1884 Grover Cleveland 90,13233.90 James G. Blaine 154,40658.089
1880 James A. Garfield 121,54960.40 Winfield S. Hancock 59,80129.72 James B. Weaver 19,8519.865
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes [c] 78,32463.10 Samuel J. Tilden 37,90230.535
1872 Ulysses S. Grant 66,80566.46 Horace Greeley 32,97032.805
1868 Ulysses S. Grant 30,02768.8 Horatio Seymour 13,60031.23
1864 Abraham Lincoln 17,08981.7 George B. McClellan 3,83618.33

See also

Notes

  1. James B. Weaver, 1892.
  2. For purposes of these lists, other national candidates are defined as those who won at least one electoral vote, or won at least ten percent of the vote in multiple states.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Won the electoral college while losing the popular vote
  4. Was allied with a slate of unpledged electors in Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina

References

  1. "Kansas Secretary of State - 2024 General Election - Official Vote Totals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 4, 2024.
  2. 2020 official Federal Election Commission report.
  3. 2016 official Federal Election Commission report.
  4. 2012 official Federal Election Commission report.
  5. 2008 official Federal Election Commission report.
  6. "Federal Elections 2004: Election Results for the U.S. President, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives" (PDF). Federal Elections Commission. May 2005.
  7. "2000 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
  8. "1996 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.