Political party strength in Kansas facts for kids
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
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
The parties are as follows: Democratic (D), Populist (Farm. All./P), Republican (R), and a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | ||||||||
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Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
1861 | Charles L. Robinson (R) | Joseph Pomeroy Root (R) | John Winter Robinson (R) | Benjamin Franklin Simpson (R) | Hartwin Rush Dutton (R) | post created 1871 | 22R, 3D | 64R, 11D | James H. Lane (R) | Samuel C. Pomeroy (R) | Martin F. Conway (R) | |
Charles Chadwick (R) | ||||||||||||
1862 | Sanders R. Shepard (R) | |||||||||||
1863 | Thomas Carney (R) | Thomas Andrew Osborn (R) | Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence (R) | Warren William Guthrie (R) | William Spriggs (R) | 20R, 2D, 2I, 1ID | 57R, 8D, 7U, 1I, 1 Abol. 1? | Abel Carter Wilder (R) | ||||
1864 | 30R, 3D, 42? | Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) | ||||||||||
1865 | Samuel J. Crawford (R) | James McGrew (R) | Rinaldo Allen Barker (R) | Jerome D. Brumbaugh (R) | 19R, 2I, 2 War. Dem., 1D, 1 Nat. | 62R, 7D, 4 Abol., 1I, 1IR, 1 War. Dem., 2? | Sidney Clarke (R) | |||||
1866 | 61R, 10D, 1I, 1IR, 1 Admin. Dem., 1 Whig, 3? | |||||||||||
1867 | Nehemiah Green (R) | George H. Hoyt (R) | Martin Anderson (R) | 20R, 5D | 69R, 13D | Edmund G. Ross (R) | ||||||
1868 | 62R, 26D | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||||
Nehemiah Green (R) | vacant | |||||||||||
1869 | James M. Harvey (R) | Charles Vernon Eskridge (R) | Thomas Moonlight (R) | Addison Danford (R) | George Graham (R) | 24R, 1D | 84R, 6D | |||||
1870 | R Majority | |||||||||||
1871 | Peter Percival Elder (R) | William Hillary Smallwood (R) | Archibald L. Williams (R) | Josiah E Hayes (R) | William C. Webb (R) | 25R | 82R, 16D | Alexander Caldwell (R) | David Perley Lowe (R) | |||
1872 | R Majority | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||||||
1873 | Thomas A. Osborn (R) | Elias Sleeper Stover (R) | Edward Russell (R) | 27R, 5 Farm., 1D | 51R, 34 Farm., 18I, 2D | Robert Crozier (R) | John James Ingalls (R) | 3R | ||||
1874 | Samuel Lappin (R) | Harrison Clarkson (R) | 57R, 18 Ref., 10I, 9 Farm., 4 Lib., 3D, 2IR, 1 Lib. Ind., 2?, 1 vac. | James M. Harvey (R) | ||||||||
1875 | Melville J. Salter (R) | Thomas Horne Cavanaugh (R) | Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph (R) | John Francis (R) | Orrin T. Welch (R) | 21R, 9 Ref., 3D | 75R, 20 Ref., 10D, 2? | 2R, 1D | ||||
1876 | 77R, 9D, 9I, 4IR, 3 Ref., 1 Ref. Rep., 1? | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) | ||||||||||
1877 | George T. Anthony (R) | Willard Davis (R) | 35R, 5D | 107R, 18D | Preston B. Plumb (R) | 3R | ||||||
Lyman U. Humphrey (R) | ||||||||||||
1878 | ||||||||||||
1879 | John P. St. John (R) | James Smith (R) | 108R, 17D | |||||||||
1880 | James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) | |||||||||||
1881 | David Wesley Finney (R) | William Agnew Johnston (R) | 37R, 2D, 1 Fus. | 112R, 9D, 4 Fus. | ||||||||
1882 | ||||||||||||
1883 | George W. Glick (D) | Samuel T. Howe (R) | Richard B. Morris (D) | 86R, 26D, 13G | 7R | |||||||
1884 | George Price Smith (D) | James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) | ||||||||||
1885 | John A. Martin (R) | Alexander Pancoast Riddle (R) | Edwin Bird Allen (R) | Simeon Briggs Bradford (R) | 37R, 3D | 107R, 11D, 7I | ||||||
1886 | ||||||||||||
1887 | James William Hamilton (R) | Daniel W. Wilder (R) | 97R, 24D, 3I, 1 Lab. | |||||||||
1888 | Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) | |||||||||||
1889 | Lyman U. Humphrey (R) | Andrew Jackson Felt (R) | William Higgins (R) | Lyman Beecher Kellogg (R) | 39R, 1D | 121R, 2D, 2 Union Labor | ||||||
1890 | William Sims (R) | |||||||||||
1891 | John Nutt Ives (D) | Solomon G. Stover (R) | W. H. McBride (R) | 92 Farm. All., 26R, 7D | William A. Peffer (P) | 5P, 2R | ||||||
1892 | Bishop W. Perkins (R) | James B. Weaver and James G. Field (P) | ||||||||||
1893 | Lorenzo D. Lewelling (P) | Percy Daniels (P) | Russell Scott Osborn (P) | John Thomas Little (P) | William H. Biddle (P) | S. H. Snider (R) | 23P, 15R, 2D | 64R, 58P, 2D, 1I | John Martin (D) | 5P, 2R, 1D | ||
1894 | ||||||||||||
1895 | Edmund N. Morrill (R) | James Armstrong Troutman (R) | William Corydon Edwards (R) | Fernando Brenton Dawes (R) | Otis L. Atherton (R) | George T. Anthony (R) | 91R, 33P, 1D | Lucien Baker (R) | 7R, 1P | |||
1896 | Alexander P. Riddle (R) | William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) | ||||||||||
1897 | John W. Leedy (P) | Alexander Miller Harvey (P) | William Eben Bush (P) | Louis C. Boyle (P) | David Heflebower (P) | Webb McNall (P) | 27P, 11R, 2D | 67P, 47R, 8D, 3SR | William A. Harris (P) | 6P, 2R | ||
1898 | ||||||||||||
1899 | William E. Stanley (R) | Harry E. Richter (R) | George Alfred Clark (R) | Aretas Allen Godard (R) | Frank Grimes (R) | Willard V. Church (R) | 92R, 33P | 7R, 1P | ||||
1900 | William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) | |||||||||||
1901 | 31R, 7P, 2D | 81R, 30P, 12D, 2SR | Joseph R. Burton (R) | 7R, 1D | ||||||||
1902 | ||||||||||||
1903 | Willis J. Bailey (R) | David John Hanna (R) | Joel Randall Burrow (R) | Chiles Crittendon Coleman (R) | Thomas Kelly (R) | Charles H. Luling (R) | 95R, 30D | Chester I. Long (R) | 8R | |||
1904 | Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) | |||||||||||
1905 | Edward W. Hoch (R) | 37R, 3D | 110R, 15D | |||||||||
1906 | Alfred W. Benson (R) | |||||||||||
1907 | William James Fitzgerald (R) | Charles Eugene Denton (R) | Fred Schuyler Jackson (R) | Mark Tulley (R) | Charles W. Barnes (R) | 94R, 31D | Charles Curtis (R) | |||||
1908 | William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) | |||||||||||
1909 | Walter R. Stubbs (R) | 34R, 6D | 84R, 40D, 1I | Joseph L. Bristow (R) | ||||||||
1910 | ||||||||||||
1911 | Richard Joseph Hopkins (R) | Charles Harrison Sessions (R) | John Shaw Dawson (R) | Isaac S. Lewis (R) | 71R, 53D, 1I | |||||||
1912 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | |||||||||||
1913 | George H. Hodges (D) | Sheffield Ingalls (R) | Earl Akers (R) | 21D, 18R, 1 Soc. | 72D, 51R, 2 Soc. | William H. Thompson (D) | 5D, 3R | |||||
1914 | ||||||||||||
1915 | Arthur Capper (R) | William Yoast Morgan (R) | John Thomas Botkin (R) | Sardius Mason Brewster (R) | Carey J. Wilson (R) | 66R, 49D, 9 Prog., 1 Soc. | Charles Curtis (R) | 6D, 2R | ||||
1916 | ||||||||||||
1917 | Walter Payne (R) | 31R, 9D | 86R, 37D, 2 Soc. | 5D, 3R | ||||||||
1918 | ||||||||||||
1919 | Henry Justin Allen (R) | Charles Solomon Huffman (R) | Lewis Julian Pettijohn (R) | Richard Joseph Hopkins (R) | Frank L. Travis (R) | 110R, 15D | Arthur Capper (R) | 7R, 1D | ||||
1920 | Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) | |||||||||||
1921 | E.T. Thompson (R) | 38R, 2D | 113R, 12D | 8R | ||||||||
1922 | David Owen McCray (R) | |||||||||||
1923 | Jonathan M. Davis (D) | Ben Sanford Paulen (R) | Frank Joseph Ryan (R) | Charles Benjamin Griffith (R) | William R. Baker (R) | 95R, 30D | 7R, 1D | |||||
1924 | Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) | |||||||||||
1925 | Benjamin S. Paulen (R) | De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (R) | Carl White (R) | 32R, 8D | 92R, 33D | 6R, 2D | ||||||
1926 | ||||||||||||
1927 | William A. Smith (R) | William R. Baker (R) | 7R, 1D | |||||||||
1928 | Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) | |||||||||||
1929 | Clyde M. Reed (R) | Jacob W. Graybill (R) | Edgbert Albert Cornell (R) | Tom Boyd (R) | Charles F. Hobbs (R) | 37R, 3D | 101R, 24D | Henry Justin Allen (R) | ||||
1930 | Roland Boynton (R) | |||||||||||
1931 | Harry H. Woodring (D) | Jacob W. Graybill (R) | 77R, 48D | George McGill (D) | ||||||||
1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) | |||||||||||
1933 | Alfred M. Landon (R) | Charles W. Thompson (R) | Frank Joseph Ryan (R) | Wm. Jardine (R) | 23R, 17D | 65R, 60D | 4R, 3D | |||||
1934 | J. J. Rhodes (R) | |||||||||||
1935 | Clarence Victor Beck (R) | 75R, 50D | ||||||||||
1936 | ||||||||||||
1937 | Walter A. Huxman (D) | William M. Lindsay (D) | 25R, 15D | 74R, 51D | 5R, 2D | |||||||
1938 | Jibo Hewitt (D) | |||||||||||
1939 | Payne Ratner (R) | Carl E. Friend (R) | Jay S. Parker (R) | Walter Wilson (R) | 108R, 17D | Clyde M. Reed (R) | 6R, 1D | |||||
1940 | Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) | |||||||||||
1941 | 35R, 5D | 98R, 27D | ||||||||||
1942 | ||||||||||||
1943 | Andrew F. Schoeppel (R) | Jess C. Denious (R) | Alexander Baldwin Mitchell (R) | 113R, 12D | 6R | |||||||
1944 | Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) | |||||||||||
1945 | Elmer T. Beck (R) | 39R, 1D | 120R, 5D | |||||||||
1946 | ||||||||||||
1947 | Frank Carlson (R) | Frank L. Hagaman (R) | Edward F. Arn (R) | Richard Fadely (R) | Frank Sullivan (R) | 108R, 17D | ||||||
1948 | Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) | |||||||||||
1949 | Larry Ryan (D) | Harold Ralph Fatzer (R) | 34R, 6D | 95R, 30D | Andrew F. Schoeppel (R) | |||||||
1950 | Harry Darby (R) | |||||||||||
Frank L. Hagaman (R) | vacant | Paul R. Shanahan (R) | ||||||||||
1951 | Edward F. Arn (R) | Fred Hall (R) | 105R, 43D | Frank Carlson (R) | ||||||||
1952 | Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) | |||||||||||
1953 | 35R, 5D | 5R, 1D | ||||||||||
1954 | ||||||||||||
1955 | Fred Hall (R)| | John McCuish (R) | 89R, 36D | 6R | ||||||||
1956 | John Anderson, Jr. (R) | |||||||||||
1957 | John McCuish (R) | vacant | 32R, 8D | 82R, 43D | 5R, 1D | |||||||
George Docking (D) | Joseph W. Henkle, Sr. (D) | |||||||||||
1958 | ||||||||||||
1959 | George Hart (D) | 69R, 56D | 3D, 3R | |||||||||
1960 | Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) | |||||||||||
1961 | John Anderson, Jr. (R) | Harold H. Chase (R) | William M. Ferguson (R) | Walter Peery (R) | 82R, 43D | 5R, 1D | ||||||
1962 | James B. Pearson (R) | |||||||||||
1963 | 89R, 36D | 5R | ||||||||||
1964 | Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) | |||||||||||
1965 | William H. Avery (R) | John Crutcher (R) | Robert C. Londerholm (R) | 27R, 13D | 80R, 45D | |||||||
1966 | Elwill M. Shanahan (R) | |||||||||||
1967 | Robert Docking (D) | 77R, 48D | ||||||||||
1968 | Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) | |||||||||||
1969 | James H. DeCoursey, Jr. (D) | Kent Frizzell (R) | 32R, 8D | 87R, 38D | Bob Dole (R) | |||||||
1970 | ||||||||||||
1971 | Reynolds Shultz (R) | Vern Miller (D) | William Fletcher (R) | 84R, 41D | 4R, 1D | |||||||
1972 | ||||||||||||
1973 | Dave Owen (R) | Tom Van Sickle (R) | 27R, 13D | 80R, 45D | ||||||||
1974 | ||||||||||||
1975 | Robert Frederick Bennett (R) | Shelby Smith (R) | Curt T. Schneider (D) | Joan Finney (D) | 72R, 53D | |||||||
1976 | Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) | |||||||||||
1977 | 21R, 19D | 65D, 60R | 3R, 2D | |||||||||
1978 | Jack Brier (R) | |||||||||||
1979 | John W. Carlin (D) | Paul V. Dugan (D) | Robert Stephan (R) | 69R, 56D | Nancy Kassebaum (R) | 4R, 1D | ||||||
1980 | Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) | |||||||||||
1981 | 23R, 17D | 72R, 53D | ||||||||||
1982 | ||||||||||||
1983 | Thomas R. Docking (D) | 3R, 2D | ||||||||||
1984 | ||||||||||||
1985 | 24R, 16D | 76R, 49D | ||||||||||
1986 | ||||||||||||
1987 | Mike Hayden (R) | Jack D. Walker (R) | Bill Graves (R) | 74R, 51D | ||||||||
1988 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||
1989 | 22R, 18D | 67R, 58D | ||||||||||
1990 | ||||||||||||
1991 | Joan Finney (D) | James Francisco (D) | Sally Thompson (D) | Ronald L. Todd (R) | 63D, 62R | |||||||
1992 | George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||
1993 | 26R, 14D | 66R, 59D | 2D, 2R | |||||||||
1994 | ||||||||||||
1995 | Bill Graves (R) | Sheila Frahm (R) | Ron Thornburgh (R) | Carla Stovall (R) | Kathleen Sebelius (D) | 80R, 45D | 4R | |||||
1996 | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) | |||||||||||
Gary Sherrer (R) | Sheila Frahm (R) | |||||||||||
Sam Brownback (R) | ||||||||||||
1997 | 27R, 13D | 77R, 48D | Pat Roberts (R) | |||||||||
1998 | ||||||||||||
1999 | Tim Shallenburger (R) | 3R, 1D | ||||||||||
2000 | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | |||||||||||
2001 | 30R, 10D | 79R, 46D | ||||||||||
2002 | ||||||||||||
2003 | Kathleen Sebelius (D) | John E. Moore (D) | Phill Kline (R) | Lynn Jenkins (R) | Sandy Praeger (R) | 80R, 45D | ||||||
2004 | ||||||||||||
2005 | 83R, 42D | |||||||||||
2006 | ||||||||||||
2007 | Mark Parkinson (D) | Paul J. Morrison (D) | 78R, 47D | 2R, 2D | ||||||||
2008 | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) | |||||||||||
Stephen Six (D) | ||||||||||||
2009 | Dennis McKinney (D) | 31R, 9D | 77R, 48D | 3R, 1D | ||||||||
Mark Parkinson (D) | Troy Findley (D) | 76R, 49D | ||||||||||
2010 | Chris Biggs (D) | |||||||||||
2011 | Sam Brownback (R) | Jeff Colyer (R) | Kris Kobach (R) | Derek Schmidt (R) | Ron Estes (R) | 32R, 8D | 92R, 33D | Jerry Moran (R) | 4R | |||
2012 | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) | |||||||||||
2013 | ||||||||||||
2014 | 93R, 32D | |||||||||||
2015 | Ken Selzer (R) | 98R, 27D | ||||||||||
2016 | Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) | |||||||||||
2017 | 31R, 9D | 85R, 40D | ||||||||||
Year | Governor | Lieutenant Governor | Secretary of State | Attorney General | Treasurer | Insurance Comm. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress |
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