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IA-HD-89's presidential lean as a baseline measurement of partisan competitiveness, reaggregated from block-level presidential results to…
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State House District 89 ran D+9.7 in 2024, a 5.1-point rightward move from D+14.7 in 2020 that still leaves the district 32.9 points clear of KS-4's R+23.3. The seat is 43.6% non-Hispanic white and 24.9% Black inside a congressional district that broke R+23.3 — a Democratic island whose 2024 slip tracked the wider Kansas pattern even as the gap to the parent CD held. Turnout came in at 53.1% on 22,572 ballots, down from 24,040 in 2020.
Headline numbers at a glance
State House District 89 voted D+9.7 in 2024, a 5.1-point rightward shift from D+14.7 in 2020. The lean score sits at D+10.8, with 2024 turnout at 53.1%.
Where the answer lives
State House District 89, a custom area drawn over Kansas.
Cycle-by-cycle arc
IA-HD-89 drifted 2.7 points right between 2008 and 2024, ending at D+9.7 after starting at D+12.3 under Obama. The district has stayed on the Democratic side every cycle in the span, bottoming at D+6.8 in 2012 before climbing back. The 2020 peak at D+14.7 was the high-water mark, following a 6.2-point leftward swing from 2016. That gain reversed in 2024, when the margin gave back 5.1 points to land at D+9.7 — close to the 2008 starting point despite the cycle-to-cycle volatility in between.
Shifted 2.7 pts left across 16 years.
Population, income, education
IA-HD-89 holds 54,632 people, 54.3% white and 24.9% Black, with a voting-age population of 42,497. The 10.7% Hispanic and 6.1% Asian shares round out a more diverse mix than the rural-Iowa baseline the district sits within. Approximate non-Hispanic white share lands at 43.6%, the lowest-leverage demographic frame for reading the presidential margin against statewide Iowa.
Against county, state, and national
State House District 89 ran D+9.7 in 2024 while its containing KS-4 came in R+23.3 — a 32.9-point gap that puts the district on the opposite side of the ledger from every other row. Sedgwick County sat at R+13.8 and Kansas overall at R+16.1, with the United States at R+1.4; the district is the only
| Geography | 2016 | 2020 | 2024 | Change since 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| State House District 89 | D+8.5 | D+14.7 | D+9.7 | -2.7 pts |
| Sedgwick | R+18.1 | R+12.6 | R+13.8 | +4.3 pts |
| Kansas | R+20.4 | R+14.8 | R+16.1 | +4.3 pts |
| KS-4 | R+26.8 | R+21.8 | R+23.3 | +3.5 pts |
| United States | D+2.1 | D+4.5 | R+1.4 | -3.5 pts |
Akashic Atlas, "IA-HD-89's presidential lean as a baseline measurement of partisan competitiveness, reaggregated from block-level presidential results to…", answer ID umKFI1FFl-Hf, generated 2026-04-29, retrieved 2026-04-30. https://akashicedge.com/atlas/a/umKFI1FFl-Hf
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