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Kansas's 39th
State Senate district
Kansas's 39th; State Senate district
Senator
	John Doll; R–Garden City
Demographics	51% White; 2% Black; 43% Hispanic; 2% Asian; 2% Other
Population (2018)	69,098

Kansas's 39th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican John Doll since 2017, following his defeat of incumbent Larry Powell in the 2016 Republican primary.^[2]

Geography

District 39 is based in Garden City and surrounding areas in the southwestern corner of the state, covering all of Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens, and Wichita Counties. Other communities in the district include Ulysses, Hugoton, Elkhart, Lakin, Holcomb, Syracuse, Sublette, Leoti, and Johnson City.^[3]

The district is located entirely within Kansas's 1st congressional district, and overlaps with the 115th, 117th, 118th, 122nd, 123rd, and 124th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives.^[4] It borders the states of Oklahoma and Colorado.^[1]

Recent election results

2020

2020 Kansas Senate election, District 39^[5]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John Doll (incumbent)	5,720	57.4
	Republican	Lon Pishny	4,249	42.6
Total votes			9,969	100
General election
	Republican	John Doll (incumbent)	20,891	100
Total votes			20,891	100
	Republican hold

2016

2016 Kansas Senate election, District 39^[5]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	John Doll	4,664	52.4
	Republican	Larry Powell (incumbent)	4,246	47.6
Total votes			8,910	100
General election
	Republican	John Doll	12,884	79.0
	Democratic	A. Zacheriah Worf	3,421	21.0
Total votes			16,305	100
	Republican hold

2012

2012 Kansas Senate election, District 39^[5]
Primary election
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Republican	Larry Powell	5,106	51.9
	Republican	Stephen Morris (incumbent)	4,737	48.1
Total votes			9,843	100
General election
	Republican	Larry Powell	16,672	100
Total votes			16,672	100
	Republican hold