Kansas's 2nd congressional district
Appearance
Kansas's 2nd congressional district | |||
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Representative |
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Distribution |
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Population (2015) | 715,752 | ||
Median household income | $53,483[1] | ||
Ethnicity |
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Cook PVI | R+10[2] |
Kansas' 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It includes most of the eastern part of Kansas. The size of the district is less than a quarter of the state. The state capital of Topeka and the city of Lawrence are both in this district.
The representative for this district is Republican Steve Watkins. He was elected on November 6, 2018.
List of members representing the district
[change | change source]Member | Party | Years in office | Cong ress |
Residence | Electoral history |
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District created | March 4, 1875 | ||||
John R. Goodin |
Democratic | March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877 |
44th | Humboldt | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Dudley C. Haskell |
Republican | March 4, 1877 – December 16, 1883 |
45th 46th 47th |
Lawrence | [Data unknown/missing.] Died. |
Vacant | December 16, 1883 – March 21, 1884 |
47th | |||
Edward H. Funston |
Republican | March 21, 1884 – August 2, 1894 |
47th 48th 49th 50th 51st 52nd 53rd |
Iola | [Data unknown/missing.] Lost contested election. |
Horace L. Moore |
Democratic | August 2, 1894 – March 3, 1895 |
53rd | Lawrence | Won contested election. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Orrin L. Miller |
Republican | March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897 |
54th | Lawrence | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Mason S. Peters |
Populist | March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899 |
55th | Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Justin D. Bowersock |
Republican | March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1907 |
56th 57th 58th 59th |
Lawrence | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Charles F. Scott |
Republican | March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911 |
60th | Iola | Redistricted from the at-large district. [Data unknown/missing.] |
Alexander C. Mitchell |
Republican | March 4, 1911 – July 7, 1911 |
61st | Lawrence | [Data unknown/missing.] Died. |
Vacant | July 7, 1911 – November 7, 1911 |
61st | |||
Joseph Taggart |
Democratic | November 7, 1911 – March 3, 1917 |
61st 62nd 63rd 64th |
Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Edward C. Little |
Republican | March 4, 1917 – June 27, 1924 |
65th 66th 67th 68th |
Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] Died. |
Vacant | June 27, 1924 – November 4, 1924 |
68th | |||
Ulysses S. Guyer |
Republican | November 4, 1924 – March 3, 1925 |
Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] | |
Chauncey B. Little |
Democratic | March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927 |
69th | Olathe | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Ulysses S. Guyer |
Republican | March 4, 1927 – June 5, 1943 |
70th 71st 72nd 73rd 74th 75th 76th 77th 78th |
Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] Died. |
Vacant | June 5, 1943 – September 14, 1943 |
78th | |||
Errett P. Scrivner |
Republican | September 14, 1943 – January 3, 1959 |
78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th |
Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Newell A. George |
Democratic | January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961 |
86th | Kansas City | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Robert F. Ellsworth |
Republican | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963 |
87th | Lawrence | [Data unknown/missing.] Redistricted to the 3rd district. |
William H. Avery |
Republican | January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965 |
88th | Wakefield | Redistricted from the 1st district. Retired to run for Governor of Kansas. |
Chester L. Mize |
Republican | January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1971 |
89th 90th 91st |
Atchison | [Data unknown/missing.] |
William Robert Roy |
Democratic | January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975 |
92nd 93rd |
Topeka | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Martha Elizabeth Keys |
Democratic | January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1979 |
94th 95th |
Manhattan | [Data unknown/missing.] |
James Edmund Jeffries |
Republican | January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983 |
96th 97th |
Atchison | [Data unknown/missing.] |
Jim Slattery |
Democratic | January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995 |
98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd |
Topeka | [Data unknown/missing.] Retired to run for Governor of Kansas. |
Sam Brownback |
Republican | January 3, 1995 – November 7, 1996 |
104th | Topeka | [Data unknown/missing.] Resigned November 27, 1996 retroactive to November 7, 1996 when elected U.S. Senator. |
Vacant | November 7, 1996 – November 27, 1996 | ||||
Jim Ryun |
Republican | November 27, 1996 – January 3, 2007 |
104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th |
Topeka, then Lawrence | Elected in 1996 and seated early under the provisions of K.S.A. 25-3503[d].[3] Lost re-election. |
Nancy Boyda |
Democratic | January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009 |
110th | Topeka | [Data unknown/missing.] Lost re-election. |
Lynn Jenkins |
Republican | January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2019 |
111th 112th 113th 114th 115th |
Topeka | [Data unknown/missing.] Retired. |
Steve Watkins |
Republican | January 3, 2019 – Present |
116th | Topeka | Incumbent |
Recent election results from statewide races
[change | change source]Year | Office | Results |
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2000 | U.S. President | George W. Bush (R) 54 – Al Gore (D) 41% |
2004 | U.S. President | George W. Bush (R) 59 – John Kerry (D) 39% |
2008 | U.S. President | John McCain (R) 55 – Barack Obama (D) 43% |
2012 | U.S. President | Mitt Romney (R) 56 – Barack Obama (D) 42% |
2016 | U.S. President | Donald Trump (R) 56 – Hillary Clinton (D) 37% |
Recent election results
[change | change source]2002
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jim Ryun* | 126,169 | 60.45 | |
Democratic | Dan Lykins | 78,286 | 37.51 | |
Libertarian | Art Clack | 4,263 | 2.04 | |
Total votes | 208,718 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold |
2004
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Jim Ryun* | 165,325 | 56.15 | |
Democratic | Nancy Boyda | 121,532 | 41.28 | |
Libertarian | Dennis Hawver | 7,579 | 2.57 | |
Total votes | 294,436 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold |
2006
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Democratic | Nancy Boyda | 111,759 | 50.60 | |||
Republican | Jim Ryun* | 104,128 | 47.15 | |||
Reform | Roger Tucker | 4,980 | 2.26 | |||
Total votes | 220,867 | 100.00 | ||||
Democratic gain from Republican |
2008
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |||
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Republican | Lynn Jenkins | 155,532 | 50.61 | |||
Democratic | Nancy Boyda* | 142,013 | 46.21 | |||
Reform | Leslie Martin | 5,080 | 1.65 | |||
Libertarian | Robert Garrard | 4,683 | 1.52 | |||
Total votes | 262,027 | 100.00 | ||||
Republican gain from Democratic |
2010
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lynn Jenkins* | 130,034 | 63.13 | |
Democratic | Cheryl Hudspeth | 66,588 | 32.33 | |
Libertarian | Robert Garrard | 9,353 | 4.54 | |
Total votes | 205,975 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold |
2012
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lynn Jenkins* | 167,463 | 57.0 | |
Democratic | Tobias Schlingensiepen | 113,735 | 38.7 | |
Libertarian | Dennis Hawver | 12,520 | 4.2 | |
Total votes | 293,718 | 100.00 | ||
Republican hold |
2014
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lynn Jenkins* | 128,742 | 57.0 | |
Democratic | Margie Wakefield | 87,153 | 38.6 | |
Libertarian | Christopher Clemmons | 9,791 | 4.3 | |
Total votes | 225,686 | 99.9 | ||
Republican hold |
2016
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Lynn Jenkins* | 181,228 | 60.9 | |
Democratic | Britani Potter | 96,840 | 32.5 | |
Libertarian | James Houston Bales | 19,333 | 6.5 | |
Total votes | 297,401 | 99.9 | ||
Republican hold |
2018
[change | change source]Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Steve Watkins | 126,099 | 47.6 | |
Democratic | Paul Davis | 123,900 | 46.8 | |
Libertarian | Kelly Standley | 21,386 | 7.2 | |
Total votes | 271,386 | 100 | ||
Republican hold |
Historical district boundaries
[change | change source]Related pages
[change | change source]- Kansas's congressional districts
- List of United States congressional districts
- United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "My Congressional District".
- ↑ "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
- ↑ "K.S.A. 25-3503[d]". Retrieved February 3, 2019.
- ↑ http://www.sos.ks.gov/elections/14elec/2014%20General%20Election%20Official%20Results.pdf
- ↑ https://www.sos.ks.gov/elections/16elec/2016_General_Election_Official_Results.pdf
- ↑ https://www.sos.ks.gov/elections/16elec/2018_General_Election_Official_Results.pdf
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present