State: | Kansas |
Number Of Elections: | 40 |
Voted Democratic: | 6 |
Voted Republican: | 33 |
Voted Other: | 1 |
Voted Winning: | 27 |
Voted Losing: | 13 |
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 2020, 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.
Winners of the state are in bold. The shading refers to the state winner, and not the national winner.
data-sort-type="number" | Year | Winner (nationally) | data-sort-type="number" | Votes | data-sort-type="number" | Percent | Runner-up (nationally) | data-sort-type="number" | Votes | data-sort-type="number" | Percent | Other national candidates | data-sort-type="number" | Votes | data-sort-type="number" | Percent | data-sort-type="number" | Electoral Votes | Notes |
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2020[1] | 570,323 | 41.56 | Donald Trump | 771,406 | 56.21 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
2016[2] | Donald Trump | 671,018 | 56.16 | 427,005 | 35.74 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
2012[3] | 440,726 | 37.99 | Mitt Romney | 692,634 | 59.71 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
2008[4] | 514,765 | 41.55 | John McCain | 699,655 | 56.61 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
2004[5] | George W. Bush | 736,456 | 62.00 | 434,993 | 36.62 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
2000[6] | George W. Bush | 622,332 | 58.04 | 399,276 | 37.24 | — | 6 | ||||||||||||
1996[7] | 387,659 | 36.08 | Bob Dole | 583,245 | 54.29 | 92,639 | 8.62 | 6 | |||||||||||
390,434 | 33.74 | George H. W. Bush | 449,951 | 38.88 | 312,358 | 26.99 | 6 | ||||||||||||
George H. W. Bush | 554,049 | 55.79 | 422,636 | 42.56 | — | 7 | |||||||||||||
Ronald Reagan | 677,296 | 66.27 | 333,149 | 32.60 | — | 7 | |||||||||||||
Ronald Reagan | 566,812 | 57.85 | 326,150 | 33.29 | 68,231 | 6.96 | 7 | ||||||||||||
430,421 | 44.94 | Gerald Ford | 502,752 | 52.49 | — | 7 | |||||||||||||
Richard Nixon | 619,812 | 67.66 | 270,287 | 29.50 | — | 7 | |||||||||||||
Richard Nixon | 478,674 | 54.84 | 302,996 | 34.72 | 88,921 | 10.19 | 7 | ||||||||||||
Lyndon B. Johnson | 464,028 | 54.09 | 386,579 | 45.06 | — | 7 | |||||||||||||
363,213 | 39.10 | Richard Nixon | 561,474 | 60.45 | — | 8 | |||||||||||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 566,878 | 65.44 | 296,317 | 34.21 | — | — | 8 | ||||||||||||
Dwight D. Eisenhower | 616,302 | 68.77 | 273,296 | 30.50 | - | 8 | |||||||||||||
351,902 | 44.61 | Thomas E. Dewey | 423,039 | 53.63 | — | — | 8 | ||||||||||||
287,458 | 39.18 | Thomas E. Dewey | 442,096 | 60.25 | — | 8 | |||||||||||||
364,725 | 42.40 | Wendell Willkie | 489,169 | 56.86 | — | 9 | |||||||||||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt | 464,520 | 53.67 | 397,727 | 45.95 | — | 9 | |||||||||||||
Franklin D. Roosevelt | 424,204 | 53.56 | 349,498 | 44.13 | — | 9 | |||||||||||||
Herbert Hoover | 513,672 | 72.02 | 193,003 | 27.06 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
Calvin Coolidge | 407,671 | 61.54 | 156,319 | 23.60 | 98,461 | 14.86 | 10 | ||||||||||||
Warren G. Harding | 369,268 | 64.75 | 185,464 | 32.52 | Parley P. Christensen | — | — | 10 | |||||||||||
Woodrow Wilson | 314,588 | 49.95 | 277,658 | 44.09 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
Woodrow Wilson | 143,663 | 39.30 | 120,210 | 32.88 | 74,845 | 20.47 | 10 | ||||||||||||
William H. Taft | 197,216 | 52.46 | 161,209 | 42.88 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
Theodore Roosevelt | 212,955 | 64.81 | 86,174 | 26.23 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
William McKinley | 185,955 | 52.56 | 162,601 | 45.96 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
159,345 | 47.63 | William Jennings Bryan | 171,675 | 51.32 | — | 10 | |||||||||||||
no ballots | 157,241 | 48.40 | James B. Weaver | 163,111 | 50.20 | 10 | |||||||||||||
Benjamin Harrison | 182,904 | 55.23 | 102,745 | 31.03 | — | 9 | |||||||||||||
90,132 | 33.90 | James G. Blaine | 154,406 | 58.08 | — | 9 | |||||||||||||
James A. Garfield | 121,549 | 60.40 | 59,801 | 29.72 | 19,851 | 9.86 | 5 | ||||||||||||
Rutherford B. Hayes | 78,324 | 63.10 | 37,902 | 30.53 | — | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ulysses S. Grant | 66,805 | 66.46 | 32,970 | 32.80 | — | 5 | |||||||||||||
Ulysses S. Grant | 30,027 | 68.8 | 13,600 | 31.2 | — | 3 | |||||||||||||
Abraham Lincoln | 17,089 | 81.7 | 3,836 | 18.3 | — | 3 |