Kansas State Senate District 36
Next vote Tue, Nov 7, 2028 · Represented by Elaine Bowers Republican · Member list as of Oct 28
This seat has no race on the official 2026 list.
- Last election
- Elaine Bowers (Republican) was unopposed, 2024
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History (14 elections for this seat)
- Votes for listed candidates
- 33,162
- Election day
- November 5, 2024
- District map
- Older district map (2022 to 2024)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2024, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanElaine BowersWon Republican 33,162100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 31,549
- Election day
- November 3, 2020
- District map
- Older district map (2012 to 2020)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2020, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanElaine BowersWon(incumbent) Republican 31,549100.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 31,502
- Election day
- November 8, 2016
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- Older district map (2012 to 2016)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2016, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanElaine BowersWon(incumbent) Republican 26,81685.1% DemocraticBrian G. Angevine Democratic 4,68614.9% - Votes for listed candidates
- 31,422
- Election day
- November 6, 2012
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- Older district map (2012)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2012, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanElaine S. BowersWon Republican 26,05182.9% DemocraticMarquis Clark Democratic 5,37117.1% - Votes for listed candidates
- 31,365
- Election day
- November 4, 2008
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- Older district map (2004 to 2011)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2008, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon(incumbent) Democratic 18,65459.5% RepublicanLarry D. Salmans Republican 12,71140.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 32,661
- Election day
- November 2, 2004
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- Older district map (2004 to 2011)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2004, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon(incumbent) Democratic 18,38056.3% RepublicanLarry D. Salmans(incumbent) Republican 13,47741.3% LibertarianBill Earnest Libertarian 8042.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 25,852
- Election day
- November 7, 2000
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 2000, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon(incumbent) Democratic 18,44171.3% RepublicanEugene M. Davidson Republican 7,41128.7% - Votes for listed candidates
- 28,808
- Election day
- November 5, 1996
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1996, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon(incumbent) Democratic 18,06362.7% RepublicanRichard E. Reeves Republican 10,74537.3% - Votes for listed candidates
- 30,554
- Election day
- November 3, 1992
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- Older district map (1992 to 2003)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1992, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon(incumbent) Democratic 20,78668.0% RepublicanEugene M. Davidson Republican 9,76832.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 24,271
- Election day
- November 8, 1988
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- Older district map (1980 to 1991)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1988, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share DemocraticJanis K. LeeWon Democratic 16,38867.5% RepublicanNeil H. Arasmith(incumbent) Republican 7,88332.5% - Votes for listed candidates
- 21,258
- Election day
- November 6, 1984
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- Older district map (1980 to 1991)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1984, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanNeil H. ArasmithWon(incumbent) Republican 21,250100.0% OtherWint Winter Other 10.0% OtherBob E. Arbuthnot Other 10.0% OtherRobert Blad Other 10.0% OtherRobert C. Craig Jr. Other 10.0% OtherRay Nelson Other 10.0% OtherPat Paulsen Other 10.0% OtherDoane Sells Other 10.0% OtherLarry Tebow Other 10.0% - Votes for listed candidates
- 26,074
- Election day
- November 4, 1980
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- Older district map (1980 to 1991)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1980, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanNeil H. ArasmithWon(incumbent) Republican 19,73375.7% DemocraticEarl L. Henry Democratic 6,34124.3% - Votes for listed candidates
- 23,893
- Election day
- November 2, 1976
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- Older district map (1972 to 1979)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1976, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanNeil H. ArasmithWon(incumbent) Republican 13,71857.4% DemocraticPeter J. Karlin Democratic 10,17542.6% - Votes for listed candidates
- 23,905
- Election day
- November 7, 1972
- District map
- Older district map (1972 to 1979)
Kansas Senate District 36, 1972 to 2024, 1972, every candidate Candidate Party Votes and share Share RepublicanNeil H. ArasmithWon Republican 14,33460.0% DemocraticRobert A. Kendall Democratic 9,57140.0%
- 2024: MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns; not an official source
- 1972 to 2020: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), retrieved Oct 28, 2026. Compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns; not an official source
Last contest in this district on file: 2024.
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Election Wrld. (2026). Kansas State Senate District 36, election results 1972 to 2024. https://www.electionwrld.com/ks/senate/36. Retrieved October 31, 2026.
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Sources: Census TIGERweb Legislative MapServer (120th CDs layer 0, 119th CDs layer 4, 2026 SLD upper layer 1 and lower layer 2) (US Census Bureau, public domain), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open Civic Data division identifiers (census_autogenerated us_sldl/us_sldu and openstates state files); also (sld-recent.json): Open Civic Data division identifiers (country-us) (CC0 (repository); also (sld-recent.json): CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026; Open States people (current) CSVs (CC0-1.0 (Open States people data)), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Open States volunteers and staff (rosters from state legislature sites) from official returns, not an official source; MEDSL 2024 official precinct returns (individual_states zips) (Not stated in the GitHub repository (an earlier label said "MIT (repo)", which the repository does not support). MEDSL's Harvard Dataverse records are CC0 1.0, but these GitHub files were not checksum-matched to the Dataverse files, so CC0 is not claimed for them.), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by MIT Election Data and Science Lab (MEDSL) from official returns, not an official source; State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse) (CC0 1.0), retrieved Oct 28, 2026, compiled by Carl Klarner (Harvard Dataverse) from official returns, not an official source.
District id: ocd-division/country:us/state:ks/sldu:36
DataState data (JSON)Sources: State Legislative Election Returns, 1967-2022 (Carl Klarner, Harvard Dataverse), MEDSL 2024 official precinct returnsData as of Oct 28, 2026