Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...

's 35th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the

Kansas Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of about 73,000 inhabitants. Members o ...

. It has been represented by Republican

Rick Wilborn Richard E. Wilborn (born February 10, 1945) is an American politician from the state of Kansas. He served as a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 35th district from 2015 to 2025. In 2024, he was elected to the Kansas House ...

since a 2014 special election.

Geography

District 35 covers the rural geographical center of the state to the north of Wichita, including all of

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, Ellsworth,

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McPherson McPherson is a Scottish surname. It is an Anglicised form of the Gaelic ''Mac a' Phearsain'' and ''Mac a Phearsoin'', meaning "son of the parson". Notable people with the surname include: In sports *Adrian McPherson, American football player ...

, and Morris Counties and parts of Dickinson and Rice Counties. Communities in the district include

, Hillsboro, Ellsworth,

Lyons Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

, Lindsborg,

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, Council Grove, Herington, and Moundridge. The district is located entirely 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 60 counties spanning more than half of the state, making it the seventh-larg ...

, and overlaps with the 68th, 70th, 73rd, 74th, 108th, 113th, 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 ...

Recent election results

2020

2016

2014 special

2012

Federal and statewide results

References

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