Kansas's 4th congressional district

**Kansas's 4th Congressional District** is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is in the south central part of the state. It includes Wichita and nearby areas.

## List of representatives

|Representative|Party|Years|Cong ress|Electoral history||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan=2|District created|March 4, 1885||||||
|align=left nowrap|Thomas Ryan||Republican|March 4, 1885 – April 4, 1889||Redistricted from the . Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Mexico.||
|align=left nowrap|Harrison Kelley||Republican|nowrap|December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1891|||
|align=left nowrap|John G. Otis||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893|||
|align=left nowrap|Charles Curtis||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1899||Redistricted to the .|
|align=left nowrap|James M. Miller||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1911|||
|align=left nowrap|Fred S. Jackson||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913|||
|align=left nowrap|Dudley Doolittle||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919|||
|align=left nowrap|Homer Hoch||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933|||
|align=left nowrap|Randolph Carpenter||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937|||
|align=left nowrap|Edward H. Rees||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961|||
|align=left nowrap|Garner E. Shriver||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977||Lost re-election.|
|align=left nowrap|Dan Glickman||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1995||Lost re-election.|
|align=left nowrap|Todd Tiahrt||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2011||Retired to run for U.S. Senate|
|style="text-align:left;" nowap|Mike Pompeo||Republican|January 3, 2011 – January 23, 2017||Resigned to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency||
|_Vacant_|nowrap|January 23, 2017 – April 11, 2017||||||
|align=left nowrap|Ron Estes||Republican|nowrap|April 25, 2017– present||Incumbent|

## Election results from recent presidential races

|Year|Office|Results|Political parties that won the district||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000|rowspan="5"|President|align="left"|George W. Bush 59 – Al Gore 37%|rowspan="5"|Republican|
|2004|align="left"|George W. Bush 64 – John Kerry 34%|||||
|2008|align="left"|John McCain 58 – Barack Obama 40%|||||
|2012|align="left"|Mitt Romney 62 – Barack Obama 36%|||||
|2016|align="left"|Donald Trump 60 – Hillary Clinton 33%|||||

## 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.

## Related pages

- Kansas's congressional districts
- List of United States congressional districts

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: Kansas
- **district number**: 4
- **image name**: Kansas US Congressional District 4 (since 2013).tif
- **image width**: 400
- **image caption**: **Kansas's 4th Congressional District – since January 3, 2013.**
- **representative**: Ron Estes
- **party**: Republican
- **residence**: Wichita
- **percent urban**: 78.90
- **percent rural**: 21.10
- **population**: 672,101
- **population year**: 2000
- **median income**: $53,657
- **percent white**: 83.6
- **percent black**: 6.9
- **percent asian**: 2.4
- **percent native american**: 1.2
- **percent hispanic**: 6.6
- **percent other race**: 0.7
- **cpvi**: R+15