Kansas's 4th congressional district

Kansas's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Based in the south central part of the state, the district encompasses the city of Wichita, the largest city in Kansas, three universities, Arkansas City, and the State of Kansas's only national airport.

Kansas's 4th congressional district
Interactive map of district boundaries since January 3, 2023
Representative
  Ron Estes
R–Wichita
Distribution
  • 78.90% urban
  • 21.10% rural
Population (2022)737,034
Median household
income		$65,593
Ethnicity
  • 69.6% White
  • 13.5% Hispanic
  • 6.6% Black
  • 5.7% Two or more races
  • 3.3% Asian
  • 0.9% Native American
  • 0.5% other
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The 4th congressional district is historically a strongly Republican district, almost exclusively represented, over the last half century, by Republicans—with the sole exception of moderate Democrat Dan Glickman, who lost his bid for re-election to a 10th term in 1994.

As of mid-April 2017 (following a special election to fill the district seat left vacant by Mike Pompeo's resignation to become CIA Director), no other Democrat has won election to the Congressional seat lost by Glickman, which has since gone to conservative, anti-abortion Republicans, routinely, by a roughly two-to-one margin in subsequent races—with the exception of the April 11, 2017 special election, in which Democrat James Thompson managed to narrow the gap with Republican victor Ron Estes to only 6.2%.

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