Kansas's 3rd congressional district

**Kansas's 3rd congressional district** is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in eastern Kansas, the district encompasses all of Wyandotte and Johnson counties and parts of Miami county. The district includes the heart of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including Kansas City, Overland Park, Lenexa, Shawnee, Spring Hill, DeSoto and Olathe.

The district is currently represented by Democrat Sharice Davids, who was first elected in 2018, defeating Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder.

## List of members representing the district

District created March 4, 1875.

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|Representative|Party|Years|Cong ress|District home|Electoral history||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align=left|**William Ripley Brown**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877||Emporia|Lost renomination|
|align=left|**Thomas Ryan**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1877 – March 3, 1885||Topeka|Redistricted to .|
|align=left|**Bishop W. Perkins**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1891||Parsons|Redistricted from .|
|align=left|**Benjamin H. Clover**||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893||Douglass||
|align=left|**Thomas J. Hudson**||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1895||Fredonia||
|align=left|**Snyder S. Kirkpatrick**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897||Fredonia||
|align=left|**Edwin R. Ridgely**||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1901||Girard||
|align=left|**Alfred M. Jackson**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1901 – March 3, 1903||Winfield||
|align=left|**Philip P. Campbell**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1903 – March 3, 1923||Pittsburg||
|align=left|**William H. Sproul**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1931||Sedan||
|align=left|**Harold C. McGugin**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1931 – January 3, 1935||Coffeyville||
|align=left|**Edward W. Patterson**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939||Pittsburg||
|align=left|**Thomas D. Winter**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1939 – January 3, 1947||Girard||
|align=left|**Herbert A. Meyer**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1947 – October 2, 1950||Independence|Died.|
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|October 2, 1950 – November 7, 1950||||||
|align=left|**Myron V. George**||Republican|nowrap|November 7, 1950 – January 3, 1959||Altamont||
|align=left|**Denver D. Hargis**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961||Coffeyville||
|align=left|**Walter Lewis McVey Jr.**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963||Independence||
|align=left|**Robert Fred Ellsworth**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1967||Lawrence|Redistricted from the .|
|align=left|**Larry Winn**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1985||Prairie Village||
|align=left|**Jan Meyers**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1985 – January 3, 1997||Overland Park||
|align=left|**Vince Snowbarger**||Republican|January 3, 1997 –January 3, 1999||Olathe|||
|align=left|**Dennis Moore**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2011||Lenexa||
|align=left|**Kevin Yoder**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 2011 – January 3, 2019||Overland Park|Lost re-election.|
|align=left|**Sharice Davids**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 2019 – Present||Roeland Park|Elected in 2018.|

## Election results from presidential races

|Year|Office|Results|Party that won the district|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|2000|President|align="left"|George W. Bush 53 - Al Gore 42%|align="left"|Republican Party|
|2004|President|align="left"|George W. Bush 55 - John Kerry 44%|align="left"|Republican Party|
|2008|President|align="left"|Barack Obama 51 - John McCain 48%|align="left"|Democratic Party|
|2012|President|align="left"|Mitt Romney 54 - Barack Obama 46%|align="left"|Republican Party|
|2016|President|align="left"|Hillary Clinton 47 - Donald Trump 46%|align="left"|Democratic Party|

## Related pages

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

## Other websites

- Johnson County Republican Party
- Johnson County Democratic Party

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: Kansas
- **district number**: 3
- **image name**: Kansas US Congressional District 3 (since 2013).tif
- **image width**: 400
- **image caption**: **Kansas's 3rd congressional district – since January 3, 2013.**
- **representative**: Sharice Davids
- **party**: Democratic
- **residence**: Shawnee
- **percent urban**: 94.65
- **percent rural**: 5.35
- **population**: 672,124
- **population year**: 2000
- **median income**: $74,120
- **percent white**: 82.7
- **percent black**: 8.9
- **percent asian**: 2.6
- **percent native american**: 0.7
- **percent hispanic**: 6.8
- **percent other race**: 1.2
- **cpvi**: R+4