State: | Kansas |
District: | 39 |
Chamber: | Senate |
Representative: | John Doll |
Party: | Republican |
Residence: | Garden City |
Percent White: | 51 |
Percent Black: | 2 |
Percent Hispanic: | 43 |
Percent Asian: | 2 |
Percent Other Race: | 2 |
Population: | 69,098[1] |
Population Year: | 2018 |
Kansas's 39th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican John Doll since 2017, following his defeat of incumbent Larry Powell in the 2016 Republican primary.[2]
District 39 is based in Garden City and surrounding areas in the southwestern corner of the state, covering all of Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens, and Wichita Counties. Other communities in the district include Ulysses, Hugoton, Elkhart, Lakin, Holcomb, Syracuse, Sublette, Leoti, and Johnson City.[3]
The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 115th, 117th, 118th, 122nd, 123rd, and 124th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.[4] It borders the states of Oklahoma and Colorado.[1]
Year | Office | Results[5] [6] | |
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2020 | President | Trump 71.5 – 26.5% | |
2018 | Governor | Kobach 54.7 – 29.7% | |
2016 | President | Trump 72.0 – 22.9% | |
2012 | President | Romney 75.9 – 22.3% |