Kansas's 2nd congressional district

Kansas's 2nd congressional district
Kansas' 2nd congressional district – since January 3, 2013.
U.S. Representative	Lynn Jenkins (R–Topeka)
Distribution	59.73% urban 40.27% rural
Population (2015)	715,752
Median income	50,087
Ethnicity	89.0% White 5.1% Black 1.0% Asian 3.8% Hispanic 1.3% Native American 2.0% other
Cook PVI	R+10

Kansas' 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas that covers most of the eastern part of the state, except for the core of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The district encompasses less than a quarter of the state. The state capital of Topeka and Lawrence, home of one of the state's universities, The University of Kansas, are both located within this district.

The district is currently represented by Republican congresswoman Lynn Jenkins. Jenkins announced in January 2017 that she would not run for re-election in 2018. Steve Watkins was elected on November 6th and is congressman-elect.

History

Kansas had but one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives until after the 1870 U.S. Census, which showed that the state was entitled to three members of the lower branch of the national legislature. In 1872, three representatives-at-large were elected, but by the act of March 2, 1874, the legislature divided the state into three districts. The 2nd Congressional District was composed of the counties of Montgomery, Wilson, Labette, Cherokee, Crawford, Neosho, Bourbon, Allen, Anderson, Linn, Miami, Franklin, Johnson, Douglas and Wyandotte.

No changes were made in until after the 1880 U.S. Census, which gave the state seven representatives. On March 5, 1883, Governor George Washington Glick approved an act of the legislature which reduced the 2nd Congressional District to only include the counties of Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Miami, Franklin, Anderson, Linn, Allen and Bourbon.

Although the 1890 U.S. Census showed the population of Kansas to be large enough to entitle the state to eight representatives, no additional district was created until 1905. By the act of March 9, 1905, the state was divided into eight districts with the 2nd Congressional district being composed of the counties of Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Miami, Franklin, Anderson, Linn, Allen and Bourbon.

Reapportionment for 2002 placed the western half of Lawrence as well as Miami County into the 2nd Congressional District and cut out the counties of Geary, Montgomery and Nemaha.

Reapportionment in 2012 meant the 2nd Congressional District included the entirety of Lawrence in the 2nd Congressional District. The District's boundaries were altered to remove Manhattan, home of Kansas State University, and portions of Miami County while adding all of Montgomery County and Nemaha County and portions of Marshall County.

Demographics

Following redistricting after the 2000 U.S. Census, there were 672,102 people, 257,856 households, and 173,309 families residing in the district. The population density was 47.6/mi² over a land area of 14,133 square miles (36,600 km²). There were 280,213 housing units at an average density of 19.8/mi². The racial makeup of the district is 89.01% White, 5.06% Black or African American, 1.26% Native American, 0.97% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.52% from other races, and 2.12% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.81% of the population.

There were 257,856 households out of which 34.60% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.48% were married couples living together, 9.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.79% were non-families. 26.73% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.63% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.49 and the average family size was 3.02.

In the district the population distribution by age is 25.34% under the age of 18, 11.88% from 18 to 24, 27.54% from 25 to 44, 21.70% from 45 to 64, and 13.54% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35.3 years. For every 100 females, there were 99.08 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.85 males.

The median income for a household in the district is $37,855, and the median income for a family was $47,095. Males had a median income of $32,033 versus $24,230 for females. The per capita income for the district was $18,595. About 7.1% of families and 11.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.0% of those under age 18 and 9.3% of those age 65 or over.

Among the population aged 16 years and older, 64.5% was in the civilian labor force and 1.9% were in the armed forces. Of the employed civilian workers, 20.6% were government workers and 7.5% were self-employed. Management, professional, and related occupations employed 32.3% of the work force and sales and office occupations employ 25.4%. Only 0.8% were employed in farming, fishing, and forestry occupations. The largest employment by industry was: educational, health and social services, 24.5%; manufacturing, 12.3%; and retail trade, 11.4%. Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting, and mining industries only employed 3.0%.

List of representatives

Parties

  Democratic (9)   Populist (1)   Republican (17)

Congress	Congressman	Term	Party	Residence	Notes
District created		March 4, 1875
44th	John R. Goodin	March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877	Democratic	Humboldt
45th	Dudley C. Haskell	March 4, 1877 – December 16, 1883	Republican	Lawrence	Died
46th
47th
48th	Edward H. Funston	March 21, 1884 – August 2, 1894	Republican	Iola	Lost contested election
49th
50th
51st
52nd
53rd	Horace L. Moore	August 2, 1894 – March 3, 1895	Democratic	Lawrence	Won contested election
54th	Orrin L. Miller	March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897	Republican	Lawrence
55th	Mason S. Peters	March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899	Populist	Kansas City
56th	Justin D. Bowersock	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1907	Republican	Lawrence
57th
58th
59th
60th	Charles F. Scott	March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911	Republican	Iola	Redistricted from the at-large district
61st	Alexander C. Mitchell	March 4, 1911 – July 7, 1911	Republican	Lawrence	Died
62nd	Joseph Taggart	November 7, 1911 – March 3, 1917	Democratic	Kansas City
63rd
64th
65th	Edward C. Little	March 4, 1917 – June 27, 1924	Republican	Kansas City	Died
66th
67th
68th	Ulysses S. Guyer	November 4, 1924 – March 3, 1925	Republican	Kansas City
69th	Chauncey B. Little	March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927	Democratic	Olathe
70th	Ulysses S. Guyer	March 4, 1927 – June 5, 1943	Republican	Kansas City	Died
71st
72nd
73rd
74th
75th
76th
77th
78th	Errett P. Scrivner	September 14, 1943 – January 3, 1959	Republican	Kansas City
79th
80th
81st
82nd
83rd
84th
85th
86th	Newell A. George	January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961	Democratic	Kansas City
87th	Robert F. Ellsworth	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963	Republican	Lawrence	Redistricted to the 3rd district
88th	William H. Avery	January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965	Republican	Wakefield	Redistricted from the 1st district Elected Governor in 1964
89th	Chester L. Mize	January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1971	Republican	Atchison
90th
91st
92nd	William Robert Roy	January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975	Democratic	Topeka
93rd
94th	Martha Elizabeth Keys	January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1979	Democratic	Manhattan
95th
96th	James Edmund Jeffries	January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983	Republican	Atchison
97th
98th	Jim Slattery	January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995	Democratic	Topeka	Unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1994
99th
100th
101st
102nd
103rd
104th	Sam Brownback	January 3, 1995 – November 7, 1996	Republican	Topeka	Resigned November 27, 1996 retroactive to November 7 after being elected to the US Senate
	Jim Ryun	November 27, 1996 – January 3, 2007	Republican	Topeka, then Lawrence	Lost re-election in 2006
105th
106th
107th
108th
109th
110th	Nancy Boyda	January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009	Democratic	Topeka	Lost re-election in 2008
111th	Lynn Jenkins	January 3, 2009 – present	Republican	Topeka	Incumbent. Retiring.
112th
113th
114th
115th
116th	Steve Watkins	Elect.	Republican	Topeka	Term starting January 3, 2019.

Election results from presidential races

Year	Office	Results	Political parties that won the district
2000	President	George W. Bush 54 - Al Gore 41%	Republican Party (United States)
2004	President	George W. Bush 59 - John Kerry 39%	Republican Party (United States)
2008	President	John McCain 55 - Barack Obama 43%	Republican Party (United States)
2012	President	Mitt Romney 56 - Barack Obama 42%	Republican Party (United States)
2016	President	Donald Trump 56 - Hillary Clinton 37%	Republican Party (United States)

Recent election results

2002

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2002)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Ryun*	126,169	60.45
	Democratic	Dan Lykins	78,286	37.51
	Libertarian	Art Clack	4,263	2.04
Total votes			208,718	100.00
	Republican hold

2004

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2004)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Jim Ryun*	165,325	56.15
	Democratic	Nancy Boyda	121,532	41.28
	Libertarian	Dennis Hawver	7,579	2.57
Total votes			294,436	100.00
	Republican hold

2006

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2006)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Democratic	Nancy Boyda	111,759	50.60
	Republican	Jim Ryun*	104,128	47.15
	Reform	Roger Tucker	4,980	2.26
Total votes			220,867	100.00
	Democratic gain from Republican

2008

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2008)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lynn Jenkins	155,532	50.61
	Democratic	Nancy Boyda*	142,013	46.21
	Reform	Leslie Martin	5,080	1.65
	Libertarian	Robert Garrard	4,683	1.52
Total votes			262,027	100.00
	Republican gain from Democratic

2010

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2010)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lynn Jenkins*	130,034	63.13
	Democratic	Cheryl Hudspeth	66,588	32.33
	Libertarian	Robert Garrard	9,353	4.54
Total votes			205,975	100.00
	Republican hold

2012

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2012)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lynn Jenkins*	167,463	57.0
	Democratic	Tobias Schlingensiepen	113,735	38.7
	Libertarian	Dennis Hawver	12,520	4.2
Total votes			293,718	100.00
	Republican hold

2014

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2014)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lynn Jenkins*	128,742	57.0
	Democratic	Margie Wakefield	87,153	38.6
	Libertarian	Christopher Clemmons	9,791	4.3
Total votes			225,686	99.9
	Republican hold

2016

Kansas's 2nd Congressional District Election (2016)

Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Lynn Jenkins*	181,228	60.9
	Democratic	Britani Potter	96,840	32.5
	Libertarian	James Houston Bales	19,333	6.5
Total votes			297,401	99.9
	Republican hold

Historical district boundaries

2003 – 2013

See also

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

See also

• United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas

References

• Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Martis, Kenneth C. (1982). The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.
• Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present