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 Congress Electoral history District created March 4, 1885 100px Thomas Ryan Republican March 4, 1885 –April 4, 1889   Redistricted from the .Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Mexico. 100px Harrison Kelley Republican December 2, 1889 –March 3, 1891   100px John G. Otis Populist March 4, 1891 –March 3, 1893   100px Charles Curtis Republican March 4, 1893 –March 3, 1899   Redistricted to the . 100px James M. Miller Republican March 4, 1899 –March 3, 1911   100px Fred S. Jackson Republican March 4, 1911 –March 3, 1913   100px Dudley Doolittle Democratic March 4, 1913 –March 3, 1919   100px Homer Hoch Republican March 4, 1919 –March 3, 1933    100px Randolph Carpenter Democratic March 4, 1933 –January 3, 1937   100px Edward H. Rees Republican January 3, 1937 –January 3, 1961   100px Garner E. Shriver Republican January 3, 1961 –January 3, 1977  Lost re-election. 100px Dan Glickman Democratic January 3, 1977 –January 3, 1995  Lost re-election. 100px Todd Tiahrt Republican January 3, 1995 –January 3, 2011  Retired to run for U.S. Senate 100px Mike Pompeo Republican January 3, 2011 –January 23, 2017  Resigned to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Vacant January 23, 2017 –April 11, 2017 100px Ron Estes Republican April 25, 2017–present  Incumbent

 Election results from recent presidential races 
YearOfficeResultsPolitical parties that won the district2000 PresidentGeorge W. Bush 59 – Al Gore 37%Republican2004George W. Bush 64 – John Kerry 34%2008John McCain 58 – Barack Obama 40%2012Mitt Romney 62 – Barack Obama 36%2016Donald Trump 60 – Hillary Clinton 33%

Recent election results
2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

 2017 special election 

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)."Court releases redistricting plans; bad news for two conservative Senate hopefuls," June 8, 2012, Wichita Eagle, retrieved February 12, 2017

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."Judges' decision moves Pratt County into 4th Congressional District," June 9, 2012, Pratt Tribune, Pratt, Kansas, retrieved February 12, 2017

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

References

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