Political party strength in Kansas

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:  (D),  (Farm. All./P),  (R),  and .

YearExecutive officesState LegislatureUnited States CongressElectoral College votesGovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of StateAttorney GeneralTreasurerInsurance Comm.AuditorState SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House1861Charles L. Robinson (R)Impeached but acquitted of charges and was not removed from office.Joseph Pomeroy Root (R)John Winter Robinson (R)Elected in December 1859 in anticipation of statehood and sworn in after Kansas was admitted to the Union in February 1861. As a result of a bond scandal, was impeached on February 26, 1862, along with Governor Charles L. Robinson and state Auditor George S. Hillyer. Robinson was convicted by the state Senate on June 12, 1862 and removed from office, becoming the first state executive branch official to be impeached and removed from office in U.S. history.Benjamin Franklin Simpson (R)Hartwin Rush Dutton (R)post created 1871 George S. Hillyer (R)22R, 3D64R, 11DJames H. Lane (R)Died in office.Samuel C. Pomeroy (R)Martin F. Conway (R)Charles Chadwick (R)1862Sanders R. Shepard (R)Succeeded to office on July 28, 1862. David L. Lakin (I)1863Thomas Carney (R)Thomas Andrew Osborn (R)Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence (R)Warren William Guthrie (R)William Spriggs (R) Asa Hairgrove (R)20R, 2D, 2I, 1ID57R, 8D, 7U, 1I, 1 Abol. 1?Abel Carter Wilder (R)186430R, 3D, 42?Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (NU) 1865Samuel J. Crawford (R)Resigned to take command of the 19th Kansas Infantry.James McGrew (R)Rinaldo Allen Barker (R)Jerome D. Brumbaugh (R) John R. Swallow (R)19R, 2I, 2 War. Dem., 1D, 1 Nat.62R, 7D, 4 Abol., 1I, 1IR, 1 War. Dem., 2?Sidney Clarke (R)186661R, 10D, 1I, 1IR, 1 Admin. Dem., 1 Whig, 3?1867Nehemiah Green (R)George H. Hoyt (R)Martin Anderson (R)20R, 5D69R, 13DEdmund G. Ross (R)186862R, 26DUlysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) Nehemiah Green (R)As lieutenant governor, filled unexpired term.vacant1869James M. Harvey (R)Charles Vernon Eskridge (R)Thomas Moonlight (R)Addison Danford (R)George Graham (R) Alois Thoman (R)24R, 1D84R, 6D1870R Majority1871Peter Percival Elder (R)William Hillary Smallwood  (R)Archibald L. Williams (R)Josiah E Hayes (R)William C. Webb (R)25R82R, 16DAlexander Caldwell (R)David Perley Lowe (R)1872R MajorityUlysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) 1873Thomas A. Osborn (R)Elias Sleeper Stover (R)Edward Russell (R) Daniel W. Wilder (R)27R, 5 Farm., 1D51R, 34 Farm., 18I, 2D Robert Crozier (R)John James Ingalls (R)3R1874Samuel 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)1875Melville J. Salter (R)Resigned July 10, 1877.Thomas Horne Cavanaugh (R)Asa Maxson Fitz Randolph (R)John Francis (R)Orrin T. Welch (R)21R, 9 Ref., 3D75R, 20 Ref., 10D, 2?2R, 1D187677R, 9D, 9I, 4IR, 3 Ref., 1 Ref. Rep., 1?Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) 1877George T. Anthony (R)Willard Davis (R) Parkinson I. Bonebrake (R)35R, 5D107R, 18D Preston B. Plumb (R)3RLyman U. Humphrey (R)Elected November 6, 1877, to fill vacancy.18781879John P. St. John (R)James Smith  (R)108R, 17D1880James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (R) 1881David Wesley Finney (R)William Agnew Johnston (R)37R, 2D, 1 Fus.112R, 9D, 4 Fus.18821883George W. Glick (D)Samuel T. Howe  (R)Richard B. Morris (D) Edward P. McCabe (R)86R, 26D, 13G7R1884George Price Smith (D)James G. Blaine and John A. Logan (R) 1885John A. Martin (R)Alexander Pancoast Riddle (R)Edwin Bird Allen  (R)Simeon Briggs Bradford (R)37R, 3D107R, 11D, 7I18861887James William Hamilton  (R)Daniel W. Wilder (R) Timothy McCarthy (R)97R, 24D, 3I, 1 Lab.1888Benjamin Harrison and Levi P. Morton (R) 1889Lyman U. Humphrey (R)Andrew Jackson Felt (R)William Higgins  (R)Lyman Beecher Kellogg (R)39R, 1D121R, 2D, 2 Union Labor1890William Sims (R)1891John Nutt Ives (D)Solomon G. Stover (R)W. H. McBride (R) Charles M. Hovey (R)92 Farm. All., 26R, 7D William A. Peffer (P)5P, 2R1892Bishop W. Perkins (R)James B. Weaver and James G. Field (P) 1893Lorenzo D. Lewelling (P)Percy Daniels (P)Russell Scott Osborn (P)John Thomas Little (P)William H. Biddle (P)S. H. Snider (R) Van B. Prather (P)23P, 15R, 2D64R, 58P, 2D, 1I John Martin (D)5P, 2R, 1D18941895Edmund N. Morrill (R)James Armstrong Troutman (R)William Corydon Edwards  (R)Fernando Brenton Dawes (R)Otis L. Atherton (R)George T. Anthony (R) George Ezekiel Cole (R)91R, 33P, 1DLucien Baker (R)7R, 1P1896Alexander P. Riddle (R)William Jennings Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) 1897John W. Leedy (P)Alexander Miller Harvey (P)William Eben Bush  (P)Louis C. Boyle (P)David Heflebower  (P)Webb McNall (P) William H. Morris (P)27P, 11R, 2D67P, 47R, 8D, 3SRWilliam A. Harris (P)6P, 2R18981899William E. Stanley (R)Harry E. Richter (R)George Alfred Clark  (R)Aretas Allen Godard (R)Frank Grimes (R)Willard V. Church (R) George Ezekiel Cole (R)92R, 33P7R, 1P1900William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt (R) 190131R, 7P, 2D81R, 30P, 12D, 2SR Joseph R. Burton (R)7R, 1D19021903Willis J. Bailey (R)David John Hanna (R)Joel Randall Burrow (R)Chiles Crittendon Coleman (R)Thomas Kelly (R)Charles H. Luling (R) Seth G. Wells (R)95R, 30D Chester I. Long (R)8R1904Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Fairbanks (R) 1905Edward W. Hoch (R)37R, 3D110R, 15D1906 Alfred W. Benson (R)1907William James Fitzgerald (R)Charles Eugene Denton  (R)Fred Schuyler Jackson (R)Mark Tulley (R)Charles W. Barnes (R) James M. Nation (R)94R, 31D Charles Curtis (R)1908William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman (R) 1909Walter R. Stubbs (R)34R, 6D84R, 40D, 1IJoseph L. Bristow (R)19101911Richard Joseph Hopkins (R)Charles Harrison Sessions  (R)John Shaw Dawson (R)Isaac S. Lewis (R) William E. Davis (R)71R, 53D, 1I1912Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) 1913George H. Hodges (D)Sheffield Ingalls (R)Earl Akers (R)21D, 18R, 1 Soc.72D, 51R, 2 Soc.William H. Thompson (D)5D, 3R19141915Arthur 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, 2R19161917Walter Payne (R) Fred W. Knapp (R)31R, 9D86R, 37D, 2 Soc.5D, 3R19181919Henry Justin Allen (R)Charles Solomon Huffman (R)Lewis Julian Pettijohn  (R)Richard Joseph Hopkins (R)Frank L. Travis (R)110R, 15DArthur Capper (R)7R, 1D1920Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge (R) 1921E.T. Thompson  (R) N. A. Turner (R)38R, 2D113R, 12D8R1922David Owen McCray  (R)1923Jonathan M. Davis (D)Ben Sanford Paulen (R)Frank Joseph Ryan (R)Charles Benjamin Griffith (R)William R. Baker (R)95R, 30D7R, 1D1924Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes (R) 1925Benjamin S. Paulen (R)De Lanson Alson Newton Chase (R)Carl White (R) William E. Davis (R)32R, 8D92R, 33D6R, 2D19261927William A. Smith (R)William R. Baker (R) Will J. French (R)7R, 1D1928Herbert Hoover and Charles Curtis (R) 1929Clyde M. Reed (R)Jacob W. Graybill (R)Edgbert Albert Cornell  (R)Tom Boyd  (R)Charles F. Hobbs (R)37R, 3D101R, 24DHenry Justin Allen (R)1930Roland Boynton (R)1931Harry H. Woodring (D)Jacob W. Graybill (R)77R, 48DGeorge McGill (D)1932Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner (D) 1933Alfred M. Landon (R)Charles W. Thompson (R)Frank Joseph Ryan  (R)William Marion Jardine (R)23R, 17D65R, 60D4R, 3D1934J. J. Rhodes (R)1935Clarence Victor Beck (R) Ed J. Powers (D)75R, 50D1936 George S. Robb (R)1937Walter A. Huxman (D)William M. Lindsay (D)25R, 15D74R, 51D5R, 2D1938Jibo Hewitt  (D)1939Payne Ratner (R)Carl E. Friend (R)Jay S. Parker (R)Walter Wilson  (R)108R, 17DClyde M. Reed (R)6R, 1D1940Wendell Willkie and Charles L. McNary (R) 194135R, 5D98R, 27D19421943Andrew F. Schoeppel (R)Jess C. Denious (R)Alexander Baldwin Mitchell (R)113R, 12D6R1944Thomas E. Dewey and John W. Bricker (R) 1945Elmer T. Beck  (R)39R, 1D120R, 5D19461947Frank Carlson (R)Resigned to take an elected seat in the United States Senate.Frank L. Hagaman (R)Edward F. Arn (R)Richard Fadely  (R)Frank Sullivan (R)108R, 17D1948Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (R) 1949Larry Ryan  (D)Harold Ralph Fatzer (R)34R, 6D95R, 30DAndrew F. Schoeppel (R) 1950Harry Darby (R)Frank L. Hagaman (R)vacantPaul R. Shanahan  (R)1951Edward F. Arn (R)Fred Hall (R)105R, 43DFrank Carlson (R)1952Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon (R) 195335R, 5D5R, 1D19541955Fred Hall (R)|Resigned with 11 days left in his term. The first act of his successor was to appoint him to the Kansas Supreme Court.John McCuish (R)89R, 36D6R1956John Anderson, Jr. (R)1957John McCuish (R)vacant32R, 8D82R, 43D5R, 1DGeorge Docking (D)Joseph W. Henkle, Sr. (D)19581959George Hart  (D)69R, 56D 3D, 3R1960Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (R) 1961John Anderson, Jr. (R)Harold H. Chase (R)William M. Ferguson (R)Walter Peery (R) Clay E. Hedrick (R)82R, 43D5R, 1D1962 James B. Pearson (R)196389R, 36D5R1964Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey (D) 1965William H. Avery (R)John Crutcher (R)Robert C. Londerholm (R)27R, 13D80R, 45D1966Elwill M. Shanahan  (R)1967Robert Docking (D)77R, 48D1968Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew (R) 1969James H. DeCoursey, Jr. (D)Kent Frizzell (R)32R, 8D87R, 38D Bob Dole (R)19701971Reynolds Shultz (R)Vern Miller (D)Fletcher Bell (R)84R, 41D4R, 1D19721973Dave Owen (R)Tom Van Sickle (R)27R, 13D80R, 45D19741975Robert Frederick Bennett  (R)Shelby Smith (R)Curt T. Schneider (D)Joan Finney (D) Office Abolished 197572R, 53D1976Gerald Ford and Bob Dole (R) 197721R, 19D65D, 60R3R, 2D1978Jack Brier (R)1979John W. Carlin (D)Paul V. Dugan (D)Robert Stephan (R)69R, 56D Nancy Kassebaum (R)4R, 1D1980Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush (R) 198123R, 17D72R, 53D19821983Thomas R. Docking (D)3R, 2D1984198524R, 16D76R, 49D19861987Mike Hayden (R)Jack D. Walker (R)Bill Graves (R)74R, 51D1988George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) 198922R, 18D67R, 58D19901991Joan Finney (D)James Francisco (D)Sally Thompson (D)Ronald L. Todd (R)63D, 62R1992George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) 199326R, 14D66R, 59D2D, 2R 19941995Bill Graves (R)Sheila Frahm (R)Resigned as Lieutenant Governor on June 11, 1996 and was appointed by Governor Bill Graves to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate.Ron Thornburgh (R)Resigned.Carla Stovall (R)Kathleen Sebelius (D)80R, 45D4R1996Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) Gary Sherrer (R)The state's first appointed lieutenant governor, he was appointed on July 18, 1996 to fill a vacancy and was elected in his own right in November 1998. Sheila Frahm (R)Sam Brownback (R)Defeated Sheila Frahm in the primary, and took the seat early on November 7, 1996 after the special general election.199727R, 13D77R, 48DPat Roberts (R)19981999Tim Shallenburger (R)3R, 1D2000George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) 200130R, 10D79R, 46D20022003Kathleen Sebelius (D)Resigned to take office as United States Secretary of Health and Human Services.John E. Moore (D)Phill Kline (R)Lynn Jenkins (R)Elected in November 2008 to U.S. House representing Kansas's 2nd congressional district.Sandy Praeger (R)80R, 45D2004200583R, 42D20062007Mark Parkinson (D)Paul J. Morrison (D)78R, 47D2R, 2D2008John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) Stephen Six (D)2009Dennis McKinney (D) 31R, 9D77R, 48D3R, 1DMark Parkinson (D)Troy Findley (D)76R, 49D On January 12, 2009, incumbent Republican Dale Swenson switched parties to Democratic.2010Chris Biggs (D)Appointed by Governor to fill vacancy.2011Sam Brownback (R)Resigned to take office as United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom.Jeff Colyer (R)Kris Kobach (R)Derek Schmidt (R)Ron Estes (R)32R, 8D92R, 33DJerry Moran (R)4R2012Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) 2013201493R, 32DOn May 30, 2014, incumbent Democrat Jan Pauls switched parties to Republican.2015Ken Selzer (R)98R, 27D2016Donald Trump and Mike Pence (R) 2017Jacob LaTurner (R) 31R, 9D85R, 40D2018Jeff Colyer (R) Tracey Mann (R) 30R, 9D, 1I On March 7th 2018, Sen. John Doll changed party affiliation to Independent.2019Laura Kelly (D)Lynn Rogers (D)Scott Schwab (R)Vicki Schmidt (R)28R, 11D, 1I On December 12th 2018, Sen. Barbara Bollier changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.On December 18th 2018, Sen. Dinah Sykes changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.84R, 41D On December 18th, 2018, Rep. Stephanie Clayton changed her party affiliation from Republican to Democratic.3R, 1DYearGovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of StateAttorney GeneralTreasurerInsurance Comm.AuditorState SenateState HouseU.S. Senator (Class II)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. HouseElectoral College votesExecutive officesState LegislatureUnited States Congress

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