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Kansas 2004 vs 2008: county swing

21 of 105 counties moved toward the Republican ticket; 1 changed hands.

Clay County: swing D+10.3Cloud County: swing D+2.2Decatur County: swing D+2.9Elk County: swing D+2.1Graham County: swing D+0.2Hamilton County: swing D+2.6Jackson County: swing D+4.2Kingman County: swing D+5.7Lincoln County: swing D+0.3Marion County: swing D+9.5Morris County: swing D+1.0Ness County: swing R+3.7Pawnee County: swing D+9.8Reno County: swing D+8.2Rooks County: swing R+3.2Sedgwick County: swing D+12.9Stafford County: swing D+6.3Trego County: swing R+1.2Wichita County: swing R+1.8Wilson County: swing D+9.3Atchison County: swing D+3.1Butler County: swing D+9.5Franklin County: swing D+7.7Johnson County: swing D+14.3Kiowa County: swing D+2.3Labette County: swing D+6.6Leavenworth County: swing D+6.4Logan County: swing R+0.7McPherson County: swing D+9.7Meade County: swing D+4.3Montgomery County: swing D+1.6Nemaha County: swing D+4.4Osborne County: swing R+1.7Ottawa County: swing D+6.0Republic County: swing D+6.4Rush County: swing R+0.9Russell County: swing R+1.0Scott County: swing R+0.4Shawnee County: swing D+9.4Sherman County: swing D+5.7Anderson County: swing R+1.5Barton County: swing D+6.2Chase County: swing R+0.3Chautauqua County: swing D+2.5Smith County: swing R+4.5Stanton County: swing D+12.1Stevens County: swing R+0.2Wabaunsee County: swing D+3.8Woodson County: swing D+4.2Cowley County: swing D+6.6Dickinson County: swing D+2.4Edwards County: swing R+2.1Ellis County: swing R+2.1Ellsworth County: swing D+7.2Ford County: swing D+17.3Gove County: swing D+3.0Greenwood County: swing R+1.5Harper County: swing D+3.5Harvey County: swing D+10.6Jefferson County: swing D+5.8Brown County: swing D+3.2Cheyenne County: swing D+6.1Clark County: swing D+2.3Coffey County: swing D+3.4Comanche County: swing R+0.5Douglas County: swing D+14.7Finney County: swing D+16.3Gray County: swing D+5.8Haskell County: swing D+7.0Kearny County: swing D+4.9Lane County: swing D+2.8Lyon County: swing D+14.3Mitchell County: swing D+2.9Neosho County: swing D+5.0Osage County: swing EvenPratt County: swing D+7.3Rice County: swing D+6.7Saline County: swing D+6.6Sheridan County: swing D+2.4Sumner County: swing D+4.1Wyandotte County: swing D+9.0Miami County: swing D+6.1Morton County: swing R+1.7Norton County: swing D+5.1Phillips County: swing D+0.4Rawlins County: swing D+2.5Riley County: swing D+15.7Seward County: swing D+14.9Allen County: swing D+9.8Barber County: swing R+0.5Bourbon County: swing D+5.1Cherokee County: swing D+0.1Linn County: swing R+6.0Marshall County: swing D+1.5Pottawatomie County: swing D+3.0Thomas County: swing D+0.8Wallace County: swing R+2.0Washington County: swing D+4.8Crawford County: swing D+7.5Doniphan County: swing D+4.2Geary County: swing D+17.3Grant County: swing D+7.2Greeley County: swing D+1.7Hodgeman County: swing D+2.1Jewell County: swing D+0.1
Red: toward the Republican ticket. Blue: toward the Democratic ticket.
County20042008SwingVotes 2004Votes 2008
Linn County R+29.9 R+35.9 R+6.0 4,741 4,617
Smith County R+53.3 R+57.8 R+4.5 2,370 2,204
Ness County R+56.4 R+60.1 R+3.7 1,818 1,525
Rooks County R+58.6 R+61.8 R+3.2 2,710 2,588
Edwards County R+46.7 R+48.8 R+2.1 1,496 1,357
Ellis County R+31.6 R+33.7 R+2.1 12,187 12,447
Wallace County R+71.9 R+73.9 R+2.0 876 804
Wichita County R+64.6 R+66.4 R+1.8 1,062 1,019
Morton County R+64.2 R+65.9 R+1.7 1,576 1,402
Osborne County R+54.6 R+56.3 R+1.7 2,075 1,930
Anderson County R+31.2 R+32.7 R+1.5 3,863 3,626
Greenwood County R+42.2 R+43.7 R+1.5 3,244 2,279
Trego County R+47.0 R+48.2 R+1.2 1,686 1,671
Russell County R+52.8 R+53.8 R+1.0 3,525 3,293
Rush County R+39.6 R+40.5 R+0.9 1,789 1,781
Logan County R+66.1 R+66.8 R+0.7 1,523 1,440
Barber County R+49.7 R+50.2 R+0.5 2,403 2,462
Comanche County R+58.1 R+58.6 R+0.5 981 974
Scott County R+68.6 R+69.0 R+0.4 2,299 2,179
Chase County R+42.5 R+42.8 R+0.3 1,501 1,384
Stevens County R+71.8 R+72.0 R+0.2 2,265 2,127
Osage County R+30.3 R+30.3 Even 7,463 7,544
Cherokee County R+23.8 R+23.7 D+0.1 9,913 9,665
Jewell County R+58.0 R+57.9 D+0.1 1,915 1,584
Graham County R+51.9 R+51.7 D+0.2 1,440 1,423
Lincoln County R+54.3 R+54.0 D+0.3 1,800 1,586
Phillips County R+59.6 R+59.2 D+0.4 2,847 2,667
Thomas County R+56.6 R+55.8 D+0.8 3,870 3,673
Morris County R+35.1 R+34.1 D+1.0 2,936 2,841
Marshall County R+28.8 R+27.3 D+1.5 5,108 5,036
Montgomery County R+37.3 R+35.7 D+1.6 14,116 13,907
Greeley County R+60.7 R+59.0 D+1.7 735 745
Elk County R+49.5 R+47.4 D+2.1 1,515 1,434
Hodgeman County R+61.7 R+59.6 D+2.1 1,183 1,096
Cloud County R+44.6 R+42.4 D+2.2 4,503 4,451
Clark County R+58.6 R+56.3 D+2.3 1,291 1,159
Kiowa County R+65.1 R+62.8 D+2.3 1,565 1,135
Dickinson County R+44.7 R+42.3 D+2.4 8,791 8,667
Sheridan County R+64.4 R+62.0 D+2.4 1,406 1,376
Chautauqua County R+57.4 R+54.9 D+2.5 1,960 1,852
Rawlins County R+65.4 R+62.9 D+2.5 1,720 1,549
Hamilton County R+58.3 R+55.7 D+2.6 1,130 1,096
Lane County R+63.3 R+60.5 D+2.8 1,014 1,027
Decatur County R+57.5 R+54.6 D+2.9 1,740 1,548
Mitchell County R+57.2 R+54.3 D+2.9 3,349 3,203
Gove County R+64.7 R+61.7 D+3.0 1,467 1,418
Pottawatomie County R+47.0 R+44.0 D+3.0 8,823 9,837
Atchison County R+10.7 R+7.6 D+3.1 7,118 7,191
Brown County R+41.3 R+38.1 D+3.2 4,418 4,376
Coffey County R+49.1 R+45.7 D+3.4 4,408 4,232
Harper County R+48.7 R+45.2 D+3.5 2,930 2,796
Wabaunsee County R+42.4 R+38.6 D+3.8 3,604 3,521
Sumner County R+36.9 R+32.8 D+4.1 10,488 10,337
Doniphan County R+39.5 R+35.3 D+4.2 3,603 3,564
Jackson County R+28.2 R+24.0 D+4.2 5,888 6,253
Woodson County R+38.2 R+34.0 D+4.2 1,763 1,599
Meade County R+65.6 R+61.3 D+4.3 2,121 1,931
Nemaha County R+48.9 R+44.5 D+4.4 5,463 5,359
Washington County R+58.1 R+53.3 D+4.8 3,190 2,980
Kearny County R+62.2 R+57.3 D+4.9 1,455 1,482
Neosho County R+31.6 R+26.6 D+5.0 7,231 7,192
Bourbon County R+32.3 R+27.2 D+5.1 6,686 6,781
Norton County R+62.3 R+57.2 D+5.1 2,599 2,415
Kingman County R+50.4 R+44.7 D+5.7 3,764 3,664
Sherman County R+52.7 R+47.0 D+5.7 2,762 2,704
Gray County R+62.7 R+56.9 D+5.8 2,245 2,119
Jefferson County R+24.5 R+18.7 D+5.8 8,793 8,950
Ottawa County R+58.5 R+52.5 D+6.0 2,971 3,086
Cheyenne County R+61.1 R+55.0 D+6.1 1,692 1,498
Miami County R+29.8 R+23.7 D+6.1 14,016 15,377
Barton County R+49.4 R+43.2 D+6.2 11,706 11,057
Stafford County R+52.3 R+46.0 D+6.3 2,186 2,074
Leavenworth County R+18.0 R+11.6 D+6.4 27,331 30,591
Republic County R+56.5 R+50.1 D+6.4 2,889 2,671
Cowley County R+31.8 R+25.2 D+6.6 14,447 13,787
Labette County R+19.5 R+12.9 D+6.6 9,139 9,031
Saline County R+32.9 R+26.3 D+6.6 23,041 22,788
Rice County R+46.9 R+40.2 D+6.7 4,376 4,021
Haskell County R+70.6 R+63.6 D+7.0 1,599 1,570
Ellsworth County R+47.0 R+39.8 D+7.2 3,102 2,938
Grant County R+58.3 R+51.1 D+7.2 2,758 2,661
Pratt County R+43.8 R+36.5 D+7.3 4,384 4,190
Crawford County flipped R+6.1 D+1.4 D+7.5 16,527 16,075
Franklin County R+30.2 R+22.5 D+7.7 11,476 11,739
Reno County R+31.6 R+23.4 D+8.2 27,324 26,512
Wyandotte County D+31.8 D+40.8 D+9.0 53,401 57,169
Wilson County R+50.1 R+40.8 D+9.3 4,398 4,121
Shawnee County R+9.7 R+0.3 D+9.4 81,577 84,177
Butler County R+41.7 R+32.2 D+9.5 26,280 27,873
Marion County R+48.4 R+38.9 D+9.5 6,159 6,059
McPherson County R+45.0 R+35.3 D+9.7 13,367 13,386
Allen County R+33.1 R+23.3 D+9.8 5,873 5,855
Pawnee County R+46.8 R+37.0 D+9.8 2,988 2,879
Clay County R+59.4 R+49.1 D+10.3 4,010 4,054
Harvey County R+27.8 R+17.2 D+10.6 15,110 15,613
Stanton County R+65.3 R+53.2 D+12.1 966 827
Sedgwick County R+25.6 R+12.7 D+12.9 177,679 192,733
Johnson County R+23.3 R+9.0 D+14.3 258,687 283,432
Lyon County R+20.3 R+6.0 D+14.3 13,440 12,911
Douglas County D+16.1 D+30.8 D+14.7 50,111 53,398
Seward County R+57.9 R+43.0 D+14.9 5,439 5,336
Riley County R+22.8 R+7.1 D+15.7 20,911 22,997
Finney County R+51.6 R+35.3 D+16.3 9,933 10,354
Ford County R+48.2 R+30.9 D+17.3 9,016 8,864
Geary County R+29.7 R+12.4 D+17.3 7,328 8,094

Official results As published by The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara) and the state documents it links. How we use this data