Editing Sedgwick County, Kansas (section)

==Government==

===Elections===
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{{PresRow|2024|Republican|120,118|90,506|4,926|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2020|Republican|122,416|95,870|6,576|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2016|Republican|104,353|69,627|17,818|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2012|Republican|106,506|71,977|4,412|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2008|Republican|106,849|82,337|4,544|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2004|Republican|110,381|64,839|2,459|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|2000|Republican|93,724|62,561|7,132|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1996|Republican|93,397|59,643|13,559|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1992|Republican|75,577|62,670|48,228|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1988|Republican|86,124|65,618|4,003|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1984|Republican|95,874|55,263|2,178|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1980|Republican|75,317|55,105|15,009|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1976|Republican|69,828|63,989|3,812|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1972|Republican|83,949|39,220|4,532|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1968|Republican|60,853|44,041|12,575|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1964|Democratic|52,592|66,372|1,217|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1960|Republican|73,501|58,887|696|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1956|Republican|72,292|45,732|336|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1952|Republican|70,983|34,926|879|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1948|Republican|39,165|38,621|1,243|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1944|Republican|38,896|34,442|360|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1940|Democratic|32,160|34,219|547|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1936|Democratic|21,654|39,503|197|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1932|Democratic|21,815|29,344|1,435|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1928|Republican|32,132|10,649|405|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1924|Republican|21,144|8,712|7,087|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1920|Republican|16,642|10,998|494|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1916|Democratic|10,899|13,391|1,792|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1912|Progressive|1,419|5,752|7,350|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1908|Republican|6,756|6,049|640|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1904|Republican|6,697|2,869|1,455|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1900|Republican|5,363|5,144|212|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1896|Democratic|4,122|5,434|102|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1892|Populist|4,770|0|5,448|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1888|Republican|6,071|4,025|841|Kansas}}
{{PresRow|1884|Republican|3,464|2,467|537|Kansas}}
{{PresFoot|1880|Republican|2,288|1,354|364|Kansas}}
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Sedgwick County is fairly conservative for an urban county. It has only gone Democratic in a presidential election once since 1944. Democratic strength is concentrated in Wichita, while the suburban areas are strongly Republican. However, the county often backs Democrats for the governorship - most recently [[Laura Kelly]] in [[2022 Kansas gubernatorial election|2022]]. This makes it a bellwether in local Kansas elections, with the statewide winner almost always winning the county.<!-- <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=2018 Gubernatorial General Election Results - Kansas|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=2018&fips=20&f=0&off=5&elect=0|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Dave's Election Atlas}}</ref> --> The last Democratic Senate candidate to win the county was [[Bill Roy]] in [[1974 United States Senate election in Kansas|1974]], while Kansas as a whole has not been represented by a Democrat in the [[United States Senate|Senate]] since 1938.<!-- <ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=1974 Senatorial General Election Results - Kansas|url=https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1974&off=3&class=undefined&elect=0&fips=20&f=0|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=Dave's Election Atlas}}</ref> --> In the U.S. House of Representatives, Sedgwick County is represented by Republican [[Ron Estes]]. He won the county with a 20.6% margin in 2024.

===Laws===
Sedgwick County was a prohibition, or [[dry county|"dry"]], county until the [[Kansas Constitution]] was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 percent food sales requirement. The food sales requirement was removed with voter approval in 1988.<ref>{{Cite web| url=http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm| title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties| publisher=Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue| date=November 2006| access-date=December 28, 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008013617/http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htm| archive-date=October 8, 2007}}</ref>

Despite its conservative reputation, Sedgwick County voted "No" on the [[2022 Kansas abortion referendum]], an anti-abortion ballot measure, by 58% to 42% despite backing [[Donald Trump]] with 54% of the vote to [[Joe Biden]]'s 43% in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/14-out-19-counties-that-rejected-kansas-anti-abortion-measure-backed-trump-2022-8|title=14 of the 19 Kansas counties that rejected an anti-abortion amendment voted for Trump in 2020|publisher=Business Insider|last=Panetta|first=Grace|date=August 3, 2022|access-date=August 3, 2022}}</ref>