Kansas's 4Th Congressional District: U.S. House district in southern Kansas
Kansas's 4th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S.
state">U.S. state of Kansas. It is in the south central part of the state. It includes Wichita and nearby areas.
| Kansas's 4th congressional district | |||
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 Kansas's 4th Congressional District – since January 3, 2013. | |||
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| Distribution |
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| Population (2000) | 672,101 | ||
| Median household income | $53,657 | ||
| Ethnicity |
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| Cook PVI | R+15 | ||
List of representatives
| Representative | Party | Years | Cong ress | Electoral history |
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| District created | March 4, 1885 | |||
 Thomas Ryan | Republican | March 4, 1885 – April 4, 1889 | 49th 50th | Redistricted from the 3rd district. Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Mexico. |
 Harrison Kelley | Republican | December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1891 | 51st | [Data unknown/missing.] |
| John G. Otis | Populist | March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893 | 52nd | [Data unknown/missing.] |
 Charles Curtis | Republican | March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1899 | 53rd 54th 55th | Redistricted to the 1st district. |
| James M. Miller | Republican | March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1911 | 56th 57th 58th 59th 60th 61st | [Data unknown/missing.] |
 Fred S. Jackson | Republican | March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913 | 62nd | [Data unknown/missing.] |
 Dudley Doolittle | Democratic | March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919 | 63rd 64th 65th | [Data unknown/missing.]
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 Homer Hoch | Republican | March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933 | 66th 67th 68th 69th 70th 71st 72nd | [Data unknown/missing.] |
| Randolph Carpenter | Democratic | March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937 | 73rd 74th | [Data unknown/missing.] |
.jpg) Edward H. Rees | Republican | January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961 | 75th 76th 77th 78th 79th 80th 81st 82nd 83rd 84th 85th 86th | [Data unknown/missing.] |
 Garner E. Shriver | Republican | January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977 | 87th 88th 89th 90th 91st 92nd 93rd 94th | Lost re-election. |
 Dan Glickman | Democratic | January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1995 | 95th 96th 97th 98th 99th 100th 101st 102nd 103rd | Lost re-election. |
 Todd Tiahrt | Republican | January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2011 | 104th 105th 106th 107th 108th 109th 110th 111th | Retired to run for U.S. Senate |
 Mike Pompeo | Republican | January 3, 2011 – January 23, 2017 | 112th 113th 114th 115th | Resigned to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Vacant | January 23, 2017 – April 11, 2017 | |||
 Ron Estes | Republican | April 25, 2017– present | 115th 116th | Incumbent
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Election results from recent presidential races
| Year | Office | Results | Political parties that won the district |
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| 2000 | President | George W. Bush 59 – Al Gore 37% | Republican |
| 2004 | George W. Bush 64 – John Kerry 34% | ||
| 2008 | John McCain 58 – Barack Obama 40% | ||
| 2012 | Mitt Romney 62 – Barack Obama 36% | ||
| 2016 | Donald Trump 60 – Hillary Clinton 33% |
Recent election results
2002
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Todd Tiahrt* | 114,354 | 60.68 | |
| Democratic | Carlos Nolla | 69,560 | 36.91 | |
| Libertarian | Maike Warren | 4,544 | 2.41 | |
| Total votes | 188,458 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2004
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Todd Tiahrt* | 173,151 | 66.11 | |
| Democratic | Michael Kinard | 81,388 | 31.07 | |
| Libertarian | David Loomis | 7,376 | 2.82 | |
| Total votes | 261,915 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2006
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Todd Tiahrt* | 113,676 | 63.69 | |
| Democratic | Garth J. McGinn | 60,297 | 33.78 | |
| Reform | Joy Holt | 4,516 | 2.53 | |
| Total votes | 178,489 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2008
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Todd Tiahrt* | 177,617 | 63.41 | |
| Democratic | Donald Betts, Jr. | 90,706 | 32.38 | |
| Reform | Susan Ducey | 6,441 | 2.30 | |
| Libertarian | Steven Rosile | 5,345 | 1.91 | |
| Total votes | 280,109 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2010
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Mike Pompeo | 119,575 | 58.79 | |
| Democratic | Raj Goyle | 74,143 | 36.46 | |
| Reform | Susan Ducey | 5,041 | 2.48 | |
| Libertarian | Shawn S. Smith | 4,624 | 2.94 | |
| Total votes | 203,383 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2012
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Mike Pompeo | 161,094 | 62.2 | |
| Democratic | Robert Leo Tillman | 81,770 | 31.6 | |
| Libertarian | Thomas Jefferson | 16,058 | 6.2 | |
| Total votes | 258,922 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2014
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Mike Pompeo | 138,757 | 66.66 | |
| Democratic | Perry Schuckman | 69,396 | 33.34 | |
| Total votes | 208,153 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2016
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Mike Pompeo | 166,998 | 60.7 | |
| Democratic | Daniel Giroux | 81,495 | 29.6 | |
| Independent | Miranda Allen | 19,021 | 6.9 | |
| Libertarian | Gordon Bakken | 7,737 | 2.8 | |
| Total votes | 275,251 | 100.00 | ||
| Turnout | ||||
| Republican hold | ||||
2017 special election
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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| Republican | Ron Estes | 63,505 | 52.5 | |
| Democratic | James Thompson | 55,310 | 45.7 | |
| Libertarian | Chris Rockhold | 2,082 | 1.7 | |
| Total votes | 120,897 | 100.00 | ||
| Republican hold | ||||
Historical district boundaries
In 2012, in an unusual move, the federal courts intervened in Kansas's decennial redistricting (required by law to adjust boundaries of Congressional and state legislative districts every 10 years, to reflect changing population distributions, as reported by the decennial census).
Sharply criticizing the Legislature for the intractable feud between conservative and moderate factions in the Kansas Legislature (normally responsible for redistricting), and recognizing the rapidly approaching next elections, a federal three-judge panel (the Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and two judges from the Kansas City U.S. District Court) drew the Kansas state and Congressional district boundaries themselves, in rather simple and direct shapes that produced radical changes.
In the process, the Kansas Fourth Congressional District shifted west—still centered approximately on (and demographically dominated by) Wichita, The district's previous eastern boundary — Montgomery County and part of Greenwood County — were moved into another district, while the Fourth District's western edge moved farther west, to include all of Pratt, Stafford, Barber, Kiowa, Comanche and Edwards counties, plus a slender section of southern Pawnee County. In the process, the Fourth acquired a more neatly rectangular shape, and sharply reduced the amount of counties divided between the Fourth and another district.
The map shown here indicates prior boundaries.
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References
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