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Election 2008 Results

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2008 presidential election in Kansas

John McCain (Republican) beat Barack Obama (Democrat) in Kansas in 2008, 56.6% to 41.7%, a margin of 15.0 points and 184,890 votes.

Kansas voted 22.2 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+7.3.

The Republican hold continued from 2004, when George W. Bush won.

Republicans led in 102 of the 105 counties and Democrats in 3. The largest, Johnson, cast 283,432 votes and went to the Republican by 9.0 points. The closest was Crawford, where 222 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
John McCain won Republican 699,655 56.6%
Barack Obama Democratic 514,765 41.7%
All other candidates 21,452 1.7%
Total1,235,872

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Johnson 127,091 44.8% 152,627 53.8% 3,714 283,432 R+9.0
Sedgwick 82,337 42.7% 106,849 55.4% 3,547 192,733 R+12.7
Shawnee 41,235 49.0% 41,476 49.3% 1,466 84,177 R+0.3
Wyandotte 39,865 69.7% 16,506 28.9% 798 57,169 D+40.9
Douglas 34,398 64.4% 17,929 33.6% 1,071 53,398 D+30.8
Leavenworth 13,255 43.3% 16,791 54.9% 545 30,591 R+11.6
Butler 9,159 32.9% 18,155 65.1% 559 27,873 R+32.3
Reno 9,916 37.4% 16,112 60.8% 484 26,512 R+23.4
Riley 10,495 45.6% 12,111 52.7% 391 22,997 R+7.0
Saline 8,186 35.9% 14,165 62.2% 437 22,788 R+26.2
Crawford 7,957 49.5% 7,735 48.1% 383 16,075 D+1.4
Harvey 6,318 40.5% 9,006 57.7% 289 15,613 R+17.2
Miami 5,742 37.3% 9,382 61.0% 253 15,377 R+23.7
Montgomery 4,338 31.2% 9,309 66.9% 260 13,907 R+35.7
Cowley 5,012 36.4% 8,492 61.6% 283 13,787 R+25.2
McPherson 4,218 31.5% 8,937 66.8% 231 13,386 R+35.3
Lyon 5,924 45.9% 6,698 51.9% 289 12,911 R+6.0
Ellis 4,010 32.2% 8,207 65.9% 230 12,447 R+33.7
Franklin 4,433 37.8% 7,079 60.3% 227 11,739 R+22.5
Barton 3,027 27.4% 7,802 70.6% 228 11,057 R+43.2
Finney 3,275 31.6% 6,926 66.9% 153 10,354 R+35.3
Sumner 3,353 32.4% 6,737 65.2% 247 10,337 R+32.7
Pottawatomie 2,599 26.4% 6,929 70.4% 309 9,837 R+44.0
Cherokee 3,594 37.2% 5,886 60.9% 185 9,665 R+23.7
Labette 3,839 42.5% 5,001 55.4% 191 9,031 R+12.9
Jefferson 3,542 39.6% 5,220 58.3% 188 8,950 R+18.7
Ford 2,991 33.7% 5,730 64.6% 143 8,864 R+30.9
Dickinson 2,422 27.9% 6,081 70.2% 164 8,667 R+42.2
Geary 3,491 43.1% 4,492 55.5% 111 8,094 R+12.4
Osage 2,534 33.6% 4,820 63.9% 190 7,544 R+30.3
Neosho 2,563 35.6% 4,473 62.2% 156 7,192 R+26.6
Atchison 3,241 45.1% 3,791 52.7% 159 7,191 R+7.6
Bourbon 2,394 35.3% 4,240 62.5% 147 6,781 R+27.2
Jackson 2,308 36.9% 3,811 60.9% 134 6,253 R+24.0
Marion 1,801 29.7% 4,159 68.6% 99 6,059 R+38.9
Allen 2,189 37.4% 3,552 60.7% 114 5,855 R+23.3
Nemaha 1,432 26.7% 3,817 71.2% 110 5,359 R+44.5
Seward 1,493 28.0% 3,791 71.0% 52 5,336 R+43.1
Marshall 1,784 35.4% 3,157 62.7% 95 5,036 R+27.3
Linn 1,425 30.9% 3,086 66.8% 106 4,617 R+36.0
Cloud 1,233 27.7% 3,121 70.1% 97 4,451 R+42.4
Brown 1,317 30.1% 2,985 68.2% 74 4,376 R+38.1
Coffey 1,121 26.5% 3,054 72.2% 57 4,232 R+45.7
Pratt 1,294 30.9% 2,822 67.4% 74 4,190 R+36.5
Wilson 1,170 28.4% 2,850 69.2% 101 4,121 R+40.8
Clay 1,009 24.9% 2,998 74.0% 47 4,054 R+49.1
Rice 1,163 28.9% 2,780 69.1% 78 4,021 R+40.2
Thomas 787 21.4% 2,837 77.2% 49 3,673 R+55.8
Kingman 963 26.3% 2,603 71.0% 98 3,664 R+44.8
Anderson 1,175 32.4% 2,362 65.1% 89 3,626 R+32.7
Doniphan 1,115 31.3% 2,372 66.6% 77 3,564 R+35.3
Wabaunsee 1,036 29.4% 2,395 68.0% 90 3,521 R+38.6
Russell 736 22.4% 2,509 76.2% 48 3,293 R+53.8
Mitchell 701 21.9% 2,440 76.2% 62 3,203 R+54.3
Ottawa 704 22.8% 2,323 75.3% 59 3,086 R+52.5
Washington 659 22.1% 2,248 75.4% 73 2,980 R+53.3
Ellsworth 851 29.0% 2,021 68.8% 66 2,938 R+39.8
Pawnee 882 30.6% 1,946 67.6% 51 2,879 R+37.0
Morris 907 31.9% 1,875 66.0% 59 2,841 R+34.1
Harper 736 26.3% 1,999 71.5% 61 2,796 R+45.2
Sherman 688 25.4% 1,959 72.4% 57 2,704 R+47.0
Republic 640 24.0% 1,978 74.1% 53 2,671 R+50.1
Phillips 525 19.7% 2,105 78.9% 37 2,667 R+59.2
Grant 635 23.9% 1,995 75.0% 31 2,661 R+51.1
Rooks 468 18.1% 2,068 79.9% 52 2,588 R+61.8
Barber 598 24.3% 1,833 74.5% 31 2,462 R+50.2
Norton 497 20.6% 1,878 77.8% 40 2,415 R+57.2
Greenwood 622 27.3% 1,619 71.0% 38 2,279 R+43.7
Smith 446 20.2% 1,719 78.0% 39 2,204 R+57.8
Scott 321 14.7% 1,823 83.7% 35 2,179 R+68.9
Stevens 283 13.3% 1,815 85.3% 29 2,127 R+72.0
Gray 436 20.6% 1,643 77.5% 40 2,119 R+57.0
Stafford 542 26.1% 1,495 72.1% 37 2,074 R+45.9
Meade 357 18.5% 1,540 79.8% 34 1,931 R+61.3
Osborne 403 20.9% 1,490 77.2% 37 1,930 R+56.3
Chautauqua 401 21.7% 1,418 76.6% 33 1,852 R+54.9
Rush 504 28.3% 1,225 68.8% 52 1,781 R+40.5
Trego 420 25.1% 1,225 73.3% 26 1,671 R+48.2
Woodson 512 32.0% 1,055 66.0% 32 1,599 R+34.0
Lincoln 347 21.9% 1,204 75.9% 35 1,586 R+54.0
Jewell 313 19.8% 1,231 77.7% 40 1,584 R+58.0
Haskell 278 17.7% 1,277 81.3% 15 1,570 R+63.6
Rawlins 273 17.6% 1,247 80.5% 29 1,549 R+62.9
Decatur 343 22.2% 1,189 76.8% 16 1,548 R+54.7
Ness 289 19.0% 1,207 79.1% 29 1,525 R+60.2
Cheyenne 323 21.6% 1,148 76.6% 27 1,498 R+55.1
Kearny 309 20.9% 1,159 78.2% 14 1,482 R+57.4
Logan 225 15.6% 1,187 82.4% 28 1,440 R+66.8
Elk 363 25.3% 1,042 72.7% 29 1,434 R+47.4
Graham 325 22.8% 1,060 74.5% 38 1,423 R+51.7
Gove 261 18.4% 1,136 80.1% 21 1,418 R+61.7
Morton 229 16.3% 1,153 82.2% 20 1,402 R+65.9
Chase 383 27.7% 976 70.5% 25 1,384 R+42.8
Sheridan 254 18.5% 1,108 80.5% 14 1,376 R+62.1
Edwards 333 24.5% 995 73.3% 29 1,357 R+48.8
Clark 245 21.1% 897 77.4% 17 1,159 R+56.3
Kiowa 200 17.6% 912 80.4% 23 1,135 R+62.7
Hamilton 233 21.3% 844 77.0% 19 1,096 R+55.7
Hodgeman 211 19.3% 865 78.9% 20 1,096 R+59.7
Lane 193 18.8% 814 79.3% 20 1,027 R+60.5
Wichita 163 16.0% 840 82.4% 16 1,019 R+66.4
Comanche 194 19.9% 765 78.5% 15 974 R+58.6
Stanton 188 22.7% 628 75.9% 11 827 R+53.2
Wallace 96 11.9% 690 85.8% 18 804 R+73.9
Greeley 151 20.3% 591 79.3% 3 745 R+59.1

Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Kansas in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+16.1
2020 Donald Trump (R) R+14.6
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+20.6
2012 Mitt Romney (R) R+21.7
2008 John McCain (R) R+15.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+25.4
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+20.8
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+18.2
1992 George H. W. Bush (R) R+5.1
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+13.2
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+33.7
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.6
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+7.6
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+38.2
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+9.0
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+21.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+31.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+38.3
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+9.0
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+21.1
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+14.5
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+7.7
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+9.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+45.0
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+37.9
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+32.2
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+5.9
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+18.8
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+9.6
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+38.7
1900 William McKinley (R) R+6.6
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+3.7
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+24.2
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+24.2
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+30.7
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+32.6
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+33.7
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+37.7