1928
Reading the 1928 result in Kansas
Kansas backed Hoover (Republican) in the 1928 presidential election, casting 10 electoral votes for the ticket. Kansas ended up on the winning side — Herbert Hoover captured the White House that year.
It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Kansas backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1920. Kansas did not move alone — neighboring Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Colorado broke the same way in 1928. Across the 41 presidential elections Kansas has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (34 times). The vote fell within the Roaring Twenties — Republican dominance to the Great Depression.
In the national count, Herbert Hoover took 444 of the 531 electoral votes, against Al Smith's 87. Herbert Hoover led the national popular vote with 58.21% of the ballots cast.
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