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1876–2024
Meade County, Kansas
Meade County·Kansas

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

One of Kansas's most lopsided presidential margins, driven by sparse plains ranching country

18762024·38 elections
Meade County, Kansas · Brylie · Wikimedia Commons
Latest
R+70
in 2024
Archetype
Republican loyalist
since the recent cycles
Population
3,903
2024 ACS
Most similar
Scott County
KS · similarity 1.00
9 precincts · 1,656 votes cast
Trump · R+70
Margin
Turnout
Harris +50
Trump +50
Real precinct boundaries. Hover for vote totals.
YearWonMarginDemocraticRepublicanTotal
2024R
−69.9%
2391,3961,656
2020R
−69.0%
2631,5231,825
2016R
−69.6%
2101,4151,732
2012R
−68.5%
2581,4281,709
2008R
−61.3%
3571,5401,931
2004R
−65.6%
3561,7482,121
2000R
−58.6%
4001,6042,053
1996R
−49.4%
4261,4432,059
1992R
−32.6%
4301,1352,164
1988R
−32.4%
6641,3222,028
1984R
−56.2%
4911,8042,338
1980R
−50.3%
4821,6182,258
1976R
−5.9%
9831,1092,152
1972R
−51.7%
5261,7122,296
1968R
−41.2%
5721,5112,281
1964R
−4.5%
1,1791,2902,492
1960R
−41.4%
7541,8262,591
1956R
−49.5%
5751,7202,315
1952R
−55.7%
5682,0612,680
1948R
−24.5%
8341,4062,336
1944R
−38.0%
6311,4242,087
1940R
−24.5%
9701,6182,647
1936D
+6.7%
1,3941,2182,615
1932R
−0.7%
1,2311,2482,521
1928R
−46.7%
6181,7092,336
1924R
−42.4%
4721,2901,927
1920R
−43.2%
4831,2361,742
1916D
+0.2%
9779732,164
1912D
+16.0%
3832041,117
1908R
−17.5%
386560996
1904R
−37.6%
166383577
1900R
−6.5%
209238447
1896R
−2.0%
195203402
1892R
−45.0%
0214476
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%.
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
Other Christian
28.8%
Catholic & Orthodox
18.3%
Mainline Protestant
15.3%
Methodist
13.6%
Baptist
6.9%
Pentecostal & Holiness
5.1%
Source · 2020 US Religion Census. Remaining 12.0% of residents not counted as adherents by any reporting body.

Meade County sits in the shortgrass prairie of southwestern Kansas, where a ranching and agricultural economy anchors a small, stable population that has delivered Republican presidential margins above 60 points in every cycle this decade.

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

Meade County's loyalty is rooted in its place. Median household income of $71,852, a 75% non-Hispanic-white share, and a population of 3,903 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 Scott County and Logan County.