New stats in today give a glimpse of where Kansas has seen its heaviest turnout in advanced voting – and it really should not be too much of a surprise.
With the help of Wichita State political scientist Brian Amos, we offer you some data showing where early vote turnout has been good to great – although there are parts of the state where it’s kind of grim.
The numbers are from Monday morning so you might see ever so slightly fresher numbers on social media from local election offices (i.e. Johnson County, which reported a turnout of 59% as of late today).
But we’ll give you all 105 counties here (or at least the ones that have reported).
In terms of turnout when compared to voter registration, here are the leaders:
- Johnson County, 56%, 255,070 votes cast out of 449,157 registered voters.
- Douglas County, 48.9%, 40,273 votes cast out of 82,390 registered voters.
- Ness County, 47.1%, 905 votes cast out of 1,922 registered voters.
- Sedgwick County, 45.1%, 143,476 votes cast out of 318,095 registered voters.
- Greeley County, 43.1%, 373 votes cast out of 865 registered voters.
- Thomas County, 43%, 2,249 votes cast out of 5,228 registered voters.
- Leavenworth County, 41.9%, 21,118 votes cast out of 50,452 registered voters.
- Miami County, 40.7%, 10,045 votes cast out of 24,469 registered voters.
- Harvey County, 39.6%, 9,455 votes cast out of 23,885 registered voters.
- Trego County, 39.4%, 844 votes cast out of 2,144 registered voters.
And here are the five counties with the worst advance voting turnout so far:
- Hamilton, 7.3%,99 votes cast out of 1,349 registered voters.
- Neosho, 8.7%, 960 votes cast out of 11,095 registered voters.
- Sherman, 9.2%, 356 votes cast out of 3,890 registered voters.
- Meade, 10.4%, 354 votes cast out of 3,391 registered voters.
- Rooks, 11.6%, 431 votes cast out of 3,703 registered voters.
And here are the top counties in terms of advanced ballots cast so far compared to the total votes from 2016:
- Johnson, 85.9%
- Douglas, 80.4%
- Sedgwick, 74.1%
- Ford, 72%
- Wyandotte, 71%
- Leavenworth, 69.7%
- Miami, 66.9%
- Riley, 66.4%
- Geary, 66.4%
- Cowley, 63.8%.
And if you are political wonk/nerd here’s the complete spreadsheet that Brian put together for us at our request.
