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.

Kansas's 4th congressional district
Kansas's 4th Congressional District – since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Ron Estes R–Wichita
Distribution	78.90% urban 21.10% rural
Population (2000)	672,101
Median household income	$53,657[1]
Ethnicity	83.6% White 6.9% Black 6.6% Hispanic 2.4% Asian 1.2% Native American 0.7% other
Cook PVI	R+15[2]

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
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.]
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.]
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

Election results from recent presidential races

Year	Office	Results	Political parties that won the district
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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2002)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2004)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2006)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2008)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2010)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2012)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2014)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Mike Pompeo	138,757	66.66
	Democratic	Perry Schuckman	69,396	33.34
Total votes			208,153	100.00
Turnout
	Republican hold

2016

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Election (2016)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

Kansas's 4th Congressional District Special Election (2017)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	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

2003 – 2013

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).^[3]

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.^[3][4]

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.^[3][4]

The map shown here indicates prior boundaries.

Related pages

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

References

1. My Congressional District
2. "Partisan Voting Index – Districts of the 115th Congress" (PDF). The Cook Political Report. April 7, 2017. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 7, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.
3. "Court releases redistricting plans; bad news for two conservative Senate hopefuls," June 8, 2012, Wichita Eagle, retrieved February 12, 2017
4. "Judges' decision moves Pratt County into 4th Congressional District," June 9, 2012, Pratt Tribune, Pratt, Kansas, retrieved February 12, 2017

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