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 17th 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

Jeff Longbine Jeffrey S. Longbine (born April 24, 1962) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 17th district from 2010 to 2025. Longbine served as Vice President of the Senate from 2017 to 2021. H ...

, the current Vice President of the Senate, since his appointment in 2010.

Geography

District 17 stretches from Emporia in the south to the outskirts of

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

in the north, covering all of Lyon County and parts of Geary, Pottawatomie, and Wabaunsee Counties. Other communities in the district include Grandview Plaza, most of Junction City, and part of Wamego. 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 51st, 60th, 65th, 68th, and 76th 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

2012

Federal and statewide results

References

{{Kansas State Senators 17 Geary County, Kansas Lyon County, Kansas Pottawatomie County, Kansas Wabaunsee County, Kansas