Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the ...

's 34th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican

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since 2017; Berger was defeated in the 2020 Republican primary by

Mark Steffen Mark B. Steffen (born August 30, 1962) is an American politician in the Kansas Senate from the 34th district. He assumed office in 2021, after beating one-term Republican incumbent Edward Berger with 57.5% of the vote in the August 4, 2020 prim ...

Geography

District 34 covers all of Reno County and parts of

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to the west of Wichita, including the communities of Hutchinson, Kingman, South Hutchinson, Buhler, Haven, and

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. The district is located largely within

Kansas's 1st congressional district Kansas's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Commonly known as "The Big First", the district encompasses all or part of 64 counties in western and northern Kansas (more than half of the state), ma ...

, with a small part extending into the

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. It overlaps with the 101st, 102nd, 104th, and 114th districts of the

Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ...

Geography

Recent election results

2020

2016

2012

Federal and statewide results

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