United States presidential election in Kansas, 2016 (Ferguson Scenario)



The 2016 United States presidential election in Kansas took place on November 8, 2016, as part of the 2016 United States presidential election. Kansas voters chose six representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for President and Vice-President.

Kansas was won by incumbent President Henry T. Ferguson (D-Texas), with 54.09 percent of the popular vote, against Senator William H. Pryor, Jr. (R-Alabama), with 45.06 percent of the popular vote.

Ferguson defeated Pryor in Kansas by a margin of 9.03%, making it his fifth-closest state win, after Idaho, Florida, Nebraska, and Virginia. Notably, this was the first time since Woodrow Wilson in 1916 that Osborne County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.