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Kansas presidential election results 2016

Donald J. Trump carried Kansas by 20.60 points (244,013 votes), winning 6 electoral votes.

Electoral votes
6
Votes counted
1,184,402
KS result
R+20.6
Compared with the nation
22.6 pts more Republican
Swing since 2012
1.1 pts to D

Statewide result

CandidatePartyVotesShareBarElectoral votes
Donald J. TrumpRepublican671,01856.70%6
Hillary ClintonDemocratic427,00536.10%—
Gary JohnsonLibertarian55,4064.70%—
Total votes1,184,402

Sources: ks.pdf · 2016

Certified state documentCertified

Kansas Secretary of State, 2016 General Election Official Vote Totals (21 pages); page 1 President / Vice President statewide, ballot candidates with party letter and write-in candidates
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Every ticket on the ballot, as printed in the certified document (the statewide table above groups minor candidates as “Others” when the source does).

All 25 tickets as printed in the document
Ticket (as printed)CodeVotesShare
R-Donald J. Trump—671,01856.65%
D-Hillary Rodham Clinton—427,00536.05%
L-Gary Johnson—55,4064.68%
i-Jill Stein—23,5061.98%
Evan McMullin—6,5200.55%
Darrell L Castle—6460.05%
Michael A Maturen—2140.02%
Tom Hoefling—450.00%
Ajay Sood—100.00%
Gloria La Riva—70.00%
Andrew D. Basiago—60.00%
Mike Smith—60.00%
"Rocky" Roque De La Fuente—30.00%
James A Hedges—30.00%
Joe C Schriner—30.00%
Lynn Kahn—20.00%
Darryl Perry—10.00%
Shawna Sterling—10.00%
Rocky Giordani———
Michael S. Levinson———
Monica G. Moorehead———
Marshall R. Schoenke———
Anthony J Valdivia———
J.J. Vogel-Walcutt———
Demetra Jefferson Wysinger———
Notes on how this document was read
  • Write-in candidates with no votes print only '.0 %': votes null.

Method: text layer: words grouped by baseline (pdfplumber), numeric tokens taken as the row's values under the spec's column labels; each row's digits matched against PyMuPDF's words (second extraction)

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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Clay County: Donald J. Trump +58.0Cloud County: Donald J. Trump +54.9Decatur County: Donald J. Trump +71.1Elk County: Donald J. Trump +70.5Graham County: Donald J. Trump +65.2Hamilton County: Donald J. Trump +66.7Jackson County: Donald J. Trump +41.7Kingman County: Donald J. Trump +57.9Lincoln County: Donald J. Trump +65.8Marion County: Donald J. Trump +49.8Morris County: Donald J. Trump +46.5Ness County: Donald J. Trump +73.3Pawnee County: Donald J. Trump +49.8Reno County: Donald J. Trump +35.8Rooks County: Donald J. Trump +72.6Sedgwick County: Donald J. Trump +18.4Stafford County: Donald J. Trump +62.6Trego County: Donald J. Trump +69.4Wichita County: Donald J. Trump +65.8Wilson County: Donald J. Trump +61.1Atchison County: Donald J. Trump +31.3Butler County: Donald J. Trump +45.2Franklin County: Donald J. Trump +39.2Johnson County: Donald J. Trump +2.6Kiowa County: Donald J. Trump +72.8Labette County: Donald J. Trump +37.5Leavenworth County: Donald J. Trump +24.5Logan County: Donald J. Trump +72.4McPherson County: Donald J. Trump +41.8Meade County: Donald J. Trump +70.1Montgomery County: Donald J. Trump +50.3Nemaha County: Donald J. Trump +66.4Osborne County: Donald J. Trump +68.6Ottawa County: Donald J. Trump +64.0Republic County: Donald J. Trump +65.2Rush County: Donald J. Trump +64.1Russell County: Donald J. Trump +66.2Scott County: Donald J. Trump +74.0Shawnee County: Donald J. Trump +2.7Sherman County: Donald J. Trump +66.7Anderson County: Donald J. Trump +52.6Barton County: Donald J. Trump +58.9Chase County: Donald J. Trump +47.7Chautauqua County: Donald J. Trump +70.2Smith County: Donald J. Trump +66.8Stanton County: Donald J. Trump +59.2Stevens County: Donald J. Trump +72.9Wabaunsee County: Donald J. Trump +47.2Woodson County: Donald J. Trump +56.1Cowley County: Donald J. Trump +37.4Dickinson County: Donald J. Trump +53.8Edwards County: Donald J. Trump +62.5Ellis County: Donald J. Trump +47.9Ellsworth County: Donald J. Trump +54.1Ford County: Donald J. Trump +38.4Gove County: Donald J. Trump +73.8Greenwood County: Donald J. Trump +59.0Harper County: Donald J. Trump +62.2Harvey County: Donald J. Trump +24.1Jefferson County: Donald J. Trump +32.3Brown County: Donald J. Trump +50.6Cheyenne County: Donald J. Trump +70.5Clark County: Donald J. Trump +70.1Coffey County: Donald J. Trump +57.1Comanche County: Donald J. Trump +70.7Douglas County: Hillary Clinton +33.0Finney County: Donald J. Trump +31.1Gray County: Donald J. Trump +69.5Haskell County: Donald J. Trump +58.7Kearny County: Donald J. Trump +68.5Lane County: Donald J. Trump +70.3Lyon County: Donald J. Trump +15.5Mitchell County: Donald J. Trump +62.2Neosho County: Donald J. Trump +46.4Osage County: Donald J. Trump +43.6Pratt County: Donald J. Trump +53.8Rice County: Donald J. Trump +56.3Saline County: Donald J. Trump +34.0Sheridan County: Donald J. Trump +77.9Sumner County: Donald J. Trump +50.5Wyandotte County: Hillary Clinton +29.4Miami County: Donald J. Trump +40.0Morton County: Donald J. Trump +71.1Norton County: Donald J. Trump +69.8Phillips County: Donald J. Trump +72.6Rawlins County: Donald J. Trump +71.8Riley County: Donald J. Trump +3.6Seward County: Donald J. Trump +30.4Allen County: Donald J. Trump +40.7Barber County: Donald J. Trump +69.4Bourbon County: Donald J. Trump +50.7Cherokee County: Donald J. Trump +48.5Linn County: Donald J. Trump +62.1Marshall County: Donald J. Trump +47.8Pottawatomie County: Donald J. Trump +50.4Thomas County: Donald J. Trump +68.1Wallace County: Donald J. Trump +84.6Washington County: Donald J. Trump +65.4Crawford County: Donald J. Trump +23.0Doniphan County: Donald J. Trump +59.8Geary County: Donald J. Trump +20.7Grant County: Donald J. Trump +57.1Greeley County: Donald J. Trump +69.4Hodgeman County: Donald J. Trump +71.9Jewell County: Donald J. Trump +69.8
Each county coloured by its winner and shaded by margin. Tap one for its history.
County Hillary ClintonDonald J. TrumpOthers TotalMargin
Allen 1,4333,651370 5,454 40.7
Anderson 6722,435243 3,350 52.6
Atchison 1,9894,049537 6,575 31.3
Barber 2861,850116 2,252 69.4
Barton 1,8397,888542 10,269 58.9
Bourbon 1,3364,424333 6,093 50.7
Brown 8632,906267 4,036 50.6
Butler 6,57319,0732,011 27,657 45.2
Chase 31696984 1,369 47.7
Chautauqua 1971,23648 1,481 70.2
Cherokee 2,0056,182433 8,620 48.5
Cheyenne 1811,17353 1,407 70.5
Clark 12082560 1,005 70.1
Clay 6772,891252 3,820 58.0
Cloud 7612,919250 3,930 54.9
Coffey 7273,050291 4,068 57.1
Comanche 10271550 867 70.7
Cowley 3,5518,270800 12,621 37.4
Crawford 5,1998,6241,068 14,891 23.0
Decatur 1781,21064 1,452 71.1
Dickinson 1,6096,029572 8,210 53.8
Doniphan 5872,606185 3,378 59.8
Douglas 31,19514,6884,204 50,087 33.0
Edwards 2121,03770 1,319 62.5
Elk 1601,04851 1,259 70.5
Ellis 2,7428,466739 11,947 47.9
Ellsworth 5211,969189 2,679 54.1
Finney 3,1956,350614 10,159 31.1
Ford 2,1495,114455 7,718 38.4
Franklin 2,8927,185888 10,965 39.2
Geary 2,7224,274508 7,504 20.7
Gove 1491,14054 1,343 73.8
Graham 1881,02571 1,284 65.2
Grant 4411,804144 2,389 57.1
Gray 2631,698105 2,066 69.5
Greeley 8353433 650 69.4
Greenwood 4852,160195 2,840 59.0
Hamilton 12170550 876 66.7
Harper 3931,996189 2,578 62.2
Harvey 5,0688,6681,180 14,916 24.1
Haskell 2451,04069 1,354 58.7
Hodgeman 12485538 1,017 71.9
Jackson 1,5123,939367 5,818 41.7
Jefferson 2,5185,213606 8,337 32.3
Jewell 1801,22391 1,494 69.8
Johnson 129,852137,49022,748 290,090 2.6
Kearny 1741,07567 1,316 68.5
Kingman 5992,530205 3,334 57.9
Kiowa 11490065 1,079 72.8
Labette 2,2915,335481 8,107 37.5
Lane 10671847 871 70.3
Leavenworth 10,20917,6382,454 30,301 24.5
Lincoln 2151,17970 1,464 65.8
Linn 7363,484207 4,427 62.1
Logan 1491,13276 1,357 72.4
Lyon 4,6496,5521,087 12,288 15.5
Marion 1,2044,003417 5,624 49.8
Marshall 1,0723,307294 4,673 47.8
McPherson 3,2268,549967 12,742 41.8
Meade 2101,41595 1,720 70.1
Miami 3,99110,0031,028 15,022 40.0
Mitchell 4772,308157 2,942 62.2
Montgomery 2,6378,679688 12,004 50.3
Morris 6011,820203 2,624 46.5
Morton 14799550 1,192 71.1
Nemaha 7254,124273 5,122 66.4
Neosho 1,5014,431382 6,314 46.4
Ness 1621,22864 1,454 73.3
Norton 2811,840113 2,234 69.8
Osage 1,7534,826467 7,046 43.6
Osborne 2331,46095 1,788 68.6
Ottawa 4242,283196 2,903 64.0
Pawnee 5791,904178 2,661 49.8
Phillips 3002,233131 2,664 72.6
Pottawatomie 2,2257,612856 10,693 50.4
Pratt 7712,838233 3,842 53.8
Rawlins 1631,22089 1,472 71.8
Reno 6,83715,5131,860 24,210 35.8
Republic 3752,024130 2,529 65.2
Rice 6952,837272 3,804 56.3
Riley 9,34110,1072,084 21,532 3.6
Rooks 2752,031113 2,419 72.6
Rush 2331,19773 1,503 64.1
Russell 4612,574158 3,193 66.2
Saline 6,31713,8281,919 22,064 34.0
Scott 2361,865101 2,202 74.0
Sedgwick 69,627104,35314,803 188,783 18.4
Seward 1,6283,159251 5,038 30.4
Shawnee 33,92635,9345,546 75,406 2.7
Sheridan 1271,19750 1,374 77.9
Sherman 3472,089176 2,612 66.7
Smith 2971,66184 2,042 66.8
Stafford 3041,490102 1,896 62.6
Stanton 11549230 637 59.2
Stevens 2201,59972 1,891 72.9
Sumner 2,0766,984662 9,722 50.5
Thomas 4732,908195 3,576 68.1
Trego 1981,22757 1,482 69.4
Wabaunsee 7762,372232 3,380 47.2
Wallace 4672131 798 84.6
Washington 3872,194184 2,765 65.4
Wichita 14076947 956 65.8
Wilson 5942,788209 3,591 61.1
Woodson 2731,08288 1,443 56.1
Wyandotte 30,14615,8062,829 48,781 29.4

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).

Questions and answers

Who won Kansas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump won Kansas by 20.60 percentage points (244,013 votes).

How many electoral votes did Kansas have in 2016?

Kansas cast 6 electoral votes in 2016.

How many people voted for president in Kansas in 2016?

1,184,402 votes were counted for president.

How many counties did each candidate win in Kansas in 2016?

Donald J. Trump 103, Hillary Clinton 2 (out of 105 counties with results).

How did Kansas change from 2012 to 2016?

The margin moved 1.1 points toward the Democratic ticket, from Republican by 21.7 points to Republican by 20.6 points.

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