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1876–2024
Chautauqua County, Kansas
Chautauqua County·Kansas

Chautauqua County has voted Republican for as long as anyone can remember.

One of Kansas's most lopsided presidential margins in 2024

18762024·38 elections
Chautauqua County, Kansas · Dylan Edwards · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+71
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
3,370
2024 ACS
Most similar
Garrard County
KY · similarity 1.00
14 precincts · 1,528 votes cast
Trump · R+71
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−71.2%
2111,2991,528
2020R
−72.6%
2121,4021,639
2016R
−70.2%
1971,2361,481
2012R
−62.8%
2801,3041,630
2008R
−54.9%
4011,4181,852
2004R
−57.4%
4041,5291,960
2000R
−48.1%
4431,3471,880
1996R
−29.3%
5681,1421,960
1992R
−12.3%
5988532,073
1988R
−30.3%
6611,2471,934
1984R
−54.0%
4971,6882,205
1980R
−46.8%
5431,5662,187
1976R
−14.1%
8661,1592,078
1972R
−58.9%
3781,5461,982
1968R
−45.1%
4781,5372,346
1964R
−11.4%
1,1631,4632,640
1960R
−41.6%
8852,1603,062
1956R
−42.0%
8872,1803,077
1952R
−50.1%
8372,5423,400
1948R
−20.5%
1,2611,9253,244
1944R
−35.0%
1,1062,3053,421
1940R
−26.2%
1,6792,8884,606
1936R
−9.3%
2,0802,5064,599
1932D
+8.5%
2,2631,8934,360
1928R
−54.3%
9443,3034,348
1924R
−33.3%
1,0872,4394,066
1920R
−43.3%
9362,5393,702
1916R
−8.3%
1,7372,0854,196
1912R
−2.5%
7528182,609
1908R
−26.1%
9581,6892,806
1904R
−44.9%
6812,0333,013
1900R
−11.6%
1,2801,6182,917
1896R
−2.5%
1,2931,3592,669
1892R
−47.7%
01,2922,706
1888
No data
1884
No data
1880
No data
1876
No data
Demographics
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry
Click any group to see the ancestries typically reported within it.
American
100.0%
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
Multiple ancestry combinations reported; no single grouping above 1%.
Sample size too small to break out by ancestry reliably.
American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander combined.
Source · American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2024 release. Ancestry is a self-reported, multiple-response item; ancestry percentages do not sum to the parent race percentage.
Language at home
Population aged 5 and older
0.0%
speak English only
Source · ACS 5-year estimates, 2024.
Religious adherents
Adherents per capita by tradition
Baptist
11.6%
Methodist
5.6%
Pentecostal & Holiness
3.9%
Mainline Protestant
3.5%
Other Christian
3.3%
Catholic & Orthodox
1.0%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 71.1% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

With roughly 4,300 residents spread across the Flint Hills borderlands, Chautauqua County recorded an R+71.3 presidential margin in 2024, placing it among the most one-sided counties in a state already dominated by wide rural gaps.

The Republican margin in Chautauqua County reached its widest at seventy-three points in 2020. The margin in 2024 was seventy-one points, in line with the county's deep historical pattern.

Chautauqua County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $56,438, a 81% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 3,370 together describe a community whose political habits are deeply settled. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Garrard County and Cloud County.