Kansas presidential election results 2008

John McCain carried Kansas by 14.96 points (184,890 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes: 6
Votes counted: 1,235,872
KS result: R+15.0
Compared with the nation: 22.2 pts more Republican
Swing since 2004: 10.4 pts to D

Statewide result

Candidate	Party	Votes	Share	Electoral votes
John McCain	Republican	699,655	56.60%	6
Barack Obama	Democratic	514,765	41.70%	—
Total votes		1,235,872

Sources: 2008

County resultsMIT Election Lab

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MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records)
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Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.

County	Barack Obama	John McCain	Others	Total	Margin
Allen	2,189	3,552	114	5,855	23.3
Anderson	1,175	2,362	89	3,626	32.7
Atchison	3,241	3,791	159	7,191	7.6
Barber	598	1,833	31	2,462	50.2
Barton	3,027	7,802	228	11,057	43.2
Bourbon	2,394	4,240	147	6,781	27.2
Brown	1,317	2,985	74	4,376	38.1
Butler	9,159	18,155	559	27,873	32.3
Chase	383	976	25	1,384	42.8
Chautauqua	401	1,418	33	1,852	54.9
Cherokee	3,594	5,886	185	9,665	23.7
Cheyenne	323	1,148	27	1,498	55.1
Clark	245	897	17	1,159	56.3
Clay	1,009	2,998	47	4,054	49.1
Cloud	1,233	3,121	97	4,451	42.4
Coffey	1,121	3,054	57	4,232	45.7
Comanche	194	765	15	974	58.6
Cowley	5,012	8,492	283	13,787	25.2
Crawford	7,957	7,735	383	16,075	1.4
Decatur	343	1,189	16	1,548	54.7
Dickinson	2,422	6,081	164	8,667	42.2
Doniphan	1,115	2,372	77	3,564	35.3
Douglas	34,398	17,929	1,071	53,398	30.8
Edwards	333	995	29	1,357	48.8
Elk	363	1,042	29	1,434	47.4
Ellis	4,010	8,207	230	12,447	33.7
Ellsworth	851	2,021	66	2,938	39.8
Finney	3,275	6,926	153	10,354	35.3
Ford	2,991	5,730	143	8,864	30.9
Franklin	4,433	7,079	227	11,739	22.5
Geary	3,491	4,492	111	8,094	12.4
Gove	261	1,136	21	1,418	61.7
Graham	325	1,060	38	1,423	51.7
Grant	635	1,995	31	2,661	51.1
Gray	436	1,643	40	2,119	57.0
Greeley	151	591	3	745	59.1
Greenwood	622	1,619	38	2,279	43.7
Hamilton	233	844	19	1,096	55.7
Harper	736	1,999	61	2,796	45.2
Harvey	6,318	9,006	289	15,613	17.2
Haskell	278	1,277	15	1,570	63.6
Hodgeman	211	865	20	1,096	59.7
Jackson	2,308	3,811	134	6,253	24.0
Jefferson	3,542	5,220	188	8,950	18.7
Jewell	313	1,231	40	1,584	58.0
Johnson	127,091	152,627	3,714	283,432	9.0
Kearny	309	1,159	14	1,482	57.4
Kingman	963	2,603	98	3,664	44.8
Kiowa	200	912	23	1,135	62.7
Labette	3,839	5,001	191	9,031	12.9
Lane	193	814	20	1,027	60.5
Leavenworth	13,255	16,791	545	30,591	11.6
Lincoln	347	1,204	35	1,586	54.0
Linn	1,425	3,086	106	4,617	36.0
Logan	225	1,187	28	1,440	66.8
Lyon	5,924	6,698	289	12,911	6.0
Marion	1,801	4,159	99	6,059	38.9
Marshall	1,784	3,157	95	5,036	27.3
McPherson	4,218	8,937	231	13,386	35.3
Meade	357	1,540	34	1,931	61.3
Miami	5,742	9,382	253	15,377	23.7
Mitchell	701	2,440	62	3,203	54.3
Montgomery	4,338	9,309	260	13,907	35.7
Morris	907	1,875	59	2,841	34.1
Morton	229	1,153	20	1,402	65.9
Nemaha	1,432	3,817	110	5,359	44.5
Neosho	2,563	4,473	156	7,192	26.6
Ness	289	1,207	29	1,525	60.2
Norton	497	1,878	40	2,415	57.2
Osage	2,534	4,820	190	7,544	30.3
Osborne	403	1,490	37	1,930	56.3
Ottawa	704	2,323	59	3,086	52.5
Pawnee	882	1,946	51	2,879	37.0
Phillips	525	2,105	37	2,667	59.2
Pottawatomie	2,599	6,929	309	9,837	44.0
Pratt	1,294	2,822	74	4,190	36.5
Rawlins	273	1,247	29	1,549	62.9
Reno	9,916	16,112	484	26,512	23.4
Republic	640	1,978	53	2,671	50.1
Rice	1,163	2,780	78	4,021	40.2
Riley	10,495	12,111	391	22,997	7.0
Rooks	468	2,068	52	2,588	61.8
Rush	504	1,225	52	1,781	40.5
Russell	736	2,509	48	3,293	53.8
Saline	8,186	14,165	437	22,788	26.2
Scott	321	1,823	35	2,179	68.9
Sedgwick	82,337	106,849	3,547	192,733	12.7
Seward	1,493	3,791	52	5,336	43.1
Shawnee	41,235	41,476	1,466	84,177	0.3
Sheridan	254	1,108	14	1,376	62.1
Sherman	688	1,959	57	2,704	47.0
Smith	446	1,719	39	2,204	57.8
Stafford	542	1,495	37	2,074	45.9
Stanton	188	628	11	827	53.2
Stevens	283	1,815	29	2,127	72.0
Sumner	3,353	6,737	247	10,337	32.7
Thomas	787	2,837	49	3,673	55.8
Trego	420	1,225	26	1,671	48.2
Wabaunsee	1,036	2,395	90	3,521	38.6
Wallace	96	690	18	804	73.9
Washington	659	2,248	73	2,980	53.3
Wichita	163	840	16	1,019	66.4
Wilson	1,170	2,850	101	4,121	40.8
Woodson	512	1,055	32	1,599	34.0
Wyandotte	39,865	16,506	798	57,169	40.9

Candidate votes as printed in the document. “Total” is the document’s total where it prints one, otherwise the sum of the candidate columns. Margin is the leading ticket’s lead in points over the second.

Notes on how this document was read

Secondary source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, County Presidential Election Returns 2000-2016 (compiled from official state election records).

Method: Machine-readable dataset; county sums checked against the state totals in The American Presidency Project summary (within 0.5% for both main tickets).

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Questions and answers

Who won Kansas in 2008?

John McCain won Kansas by 14.96 percentage points (184,890 votes).

How many electoral votes did Kansas have in 2008?

Kansas cast 6 electoral votes in 2008.

How many people voted for president in Kansas in 2008?

1,235,872 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Kansas in 2008?

John McCain 102, Barack Obama 3 (out of 105 counties with results).

How did Kansas change from 2004 to 2008?

The margin moved 10.4 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 25.4 points to Republican by 15.0 points.

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