Kansas's 4th congressional district facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kansas's 4th congressional district
Kansas's 4th Congressional District – since January 3, 2013.
Representative	Ron Estes R–Wichita
Distribution	78.90% urban 21.10% rural
Population (2000)	672,101
Median income	$53,657
Ethnicity	83.6% White 6.9% Black 2.4% Asian 6.6% Hispanic 1.2% Native American 0.7% other
Cook PVI	R+15

Kansas's 4th Congressional District is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is in the south central part of the state. It includes Wichita and nearby areas.

List of representatives

Representative	Party	Years	Cong ress	Electoral history
District created		March 4, 1885
Thomas Ryan	Republican	March 4, 1885 – April 4, 1889		Redistricted from the 3rd district. Resigned to become U.S. Minister to Mexico.
Harrison Kelley	Republican	December 2, 1889 – March 3, 1891	51st	[data missing]
John G. Otis	Populist	March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893	52nd	[data missing]
Charles Curtis	Republican	March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1899		Redistricted to the 1st district.
James M. Miller	Republican	March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1911		[data missing]
Fred S. Jackson	Republican	March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1913	62nd	[data missing]
Dudley Doolittle	Democratic	March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1919		[data missing]
Homer Hoch	Republican	March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1933		[data missing]
Randolph Carpenter	Democratic	March 4, 1933 – January 3, 1937		[data missing]
Edward H. Rees	Republican	January 3, 1937 – January 3, 1961		[data missing]
Garner E. Shriver	Republican	January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977		Lost re-election.
Dan Glickman	Democratic	January 3, 1977 – January 3, 1995		Lost re-election.
Todd Tiahrt	Republican	January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2011		Retired to run for U.S. Senate
Mike Pompeo	Republican	January 3, 2011 – January 23, 2017		Resigned to become Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
Vacant	January 23, 2017 – April 11, 2017
Ron Estes	Republican	April 25, 2017– present		Incumbent

Election results from recent presidential races

Recent election results

2002

2004

2006

2008

2010

2012

2014

2016

2017 special election

Historical district boundaries

2003 – 2013

In 2012, in an unusual move, the federal courts intervened in Kansas's decennial redistricting (required by law to adjust boundaries of Congressional and state legislative districts every 10 years, to reflect changing population distributions, as reported by the decennial census).

Sharply criticizing the Legislature for the intractable feud between conservative and moderate factions in the Kansas Legislature (normally responsible for redistricting), and recognizing the rapidly approaching next elections, a federal three-judge panel (the Chief Justice of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals and two judges from the Kansas City U.S. District Court) drew the Kansas state and Congressional district boundaries themselves, in rather simple and direct shapes that produced radical changes.

In the process, the Kansas Fourth Congressional District shifted west—still centered approximately on (and demographically dominated by) Wichita, The district's previous eastern boundary — Montgomery County and part of Greenwood County — were moved into another district, while the Fourth District's western edge moved farther west, to include all of Pratt, Stafford, Barber, Kiowa, Comanche and Edwards counties, plus a slender section of southern Pawnee County. In the process, the Fourth acquired a more neatly rectangular shape, and sharply reduced the amount of counties divided between the Fourth and another district.

The map shown here indicates prior boundaries.

Related pages

• Kansas's congressional districts
• List of United States congressional districts

See also

In Spanish: 4.º distrito congresional de Kansas para niños